The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.335- If those who suffer from such an ailment can be treated easily, it is necessary for them to get the problem treated, or else their wuḍū will be void as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.1028- If two persons simultaneously say Salām to each other, both should answer the Salām of the other as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.1125- If two roads lead to a place, and one of them is less than eight farsakhs, while the length of the other is eight farsakhs or more, the traveller should offer a shortened prayer if he travels on the road which is eight farsakhs or more, and should offer a complete prayer if he travels on the road which is less than eight farsakhs.

Issue No.785- If the blood on the clothes is less than a dirham, and another najāsah falls on it like a drop of urine, it is not permissible to offer prayer with it.

Issue No. 1337- If while eating or drinking, a person realizes that it is fajr, he should remove whatever is in his mouth, and if he swallows it intentionally, his fast is void and he must offer kaffāra (atonement).

Issue No. 1326- If a child becomes mature before the fajr adhān in the month of Ramadan, he/she should fast and if it happens after the fajr adhān and has not done any of the invalidators of the fast, he/she should, on the basis of obligatory precaution, observe fast and also perform it as qaḍā later.

Issue No. 1042 - If a creditor demands a payment from a person who is performing prayer and it is possible to pay without disturbing the form of the prayer, it is better to do so. However, if it is not possible without breaking the prayer; he should wait until the prayer is finished. This amount of delay is not incompatible with the necessity of immediate payment of the debt. In case, it is necessary to pay the creditor immediately due to a particular necessity; e.g. when the companions and co-travellers of the creditor would leave and he would face trouble; it is necessary that he should break his prayer and pay his debt.

Issue No. 1407- If a person who is fasting has sexual intercourse a number of times in a day of the month of Ramadan, one kaffāra becomes obligatory on him. In case the sexual intercourse is haram, he should offer all three kaffāras one time. The same ruling applies if one commits other invalidators repeatedly.

Issue No. 1281- If a follower raises his head from rukū‘ or sajdah before the imam by mistake, and does not return to rukū‘ or sajdah inadvertently, or under the impression that he cannot join the imam, his congregational prayers is in order.

Issue No. 1246- If a follower knows that the prayer of the imam is void, like if he knows that the imam does not have wuḍū, though the imam himself may not be mindful of the fact, he cannot follow that imam. In case, however it transpires after the prayer that the imam was not a just (‘ādil) person, or was (God forbid) a disbeliever, or the prayer he led was void for any other reason, the prayer of the follower will be valid.

Issue No.1151- If a person whose profession is travelling, stays in a place for ten days or more, [irrespective of whether that place is his hometown or not, and whether he has intended to stay there for ten days from the very outset or not] he should perform qaṣr prayer during his first journey following his stop. However, if he doubts whether he had stayed for ten days or not, he should offer complete prayer.

Issue No. 1225- If the hired person dies before completing the task, and if he himself had some qaḍā prayers of his own, it should be paid from his estate to hire someone to perform the prayer that he had been hired for and in case it was agreed that he himself should perform the qaḍā, a proportionate amount of wages for the remaining prayers should be returned. However, for his own qaḍā prayer, they cannot take from his estate unless with the heirs’ permission or that he has willed that one-third of his estate should be spent to perform the qaḍā of his qaḍā prayers.