The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 2161- If a person divorces his wife two times and returns to her by marriage, or returns to her within ‘iddah, (and if, as an obligatory precaution, each time he has engaged in sexual intercourse with her, and after she saw ḥayḍ and became pure, he divorced her), she becomes haram to him after the third divorce. She will become halal to him only if after she has observed the waiting period, she contracts permanent marriage with another man and has sexual intercourse with him and then gets divorced from him and then observes ‘iddah.

Issue No. 2162- A woman who develops an aversion from husband and is not willing to live with him and there is fear that the continuation of their marriage would lead to committing sin, can exempt him from her mahr or offer him another property so that her husband may divorce her. This divorce is called "khul‘ divorce".

Issue No. 2164- If the husband and the wife develop mutual aversion, and the wife gives her mahr or some other property to the man so that he may divorce her, this divorce is called ‘mubārāt’.

Issue No. 2186- If a person changes the thing usurped by him in such a way that it becomes better than its original form, but its owner demands him, for whatever reason, to change it back to its original form, it will be obligatory on him to do so. However, if on account of the change it becomes defective and its value decreases to the lower than the original price, he should pay the difference in the value to the owner.

Issue No. 2225- Slaughtering animals using machinery in which the aforementioned conditions are observed, is permissible and such animals are ṭāhir and halal.

Issue No. 2233- Nowadays, sometimes, an electric shock is given to animals to stun them and make cutting of their heads by machines easy. There is no harm in this act, if the animal is alive after the shock.

Issue No. 2227- In order to slaughter a camel, while following the above-mentioned five conditions for slaughtering, one should thrust a knife or any other sharp metal into the hollow below its neck. This is called "naḥr" and according to some narrations, it is better to thrust a knife in the neck of the camel when it is standing. But, there is no harm either, if they thrust the knife into the hollow of its neck while it has knelt down or is lying on its side with the front part of its body towards the direction of qiblah.

Issue No. 2231- The head of the animal should not be severed from its body before it has completely died as a recommended precaution. Therefore, if there is some equipment for slaughtering animals which sever the head of the animal, though the animal does not become haram but it would be better that they work in a way that the head is not cut off completely. In any case, all the conditions prescribed for slaughtering should be observed in machines. It is also a recommended precaution that the spinal cord of the animal which is in the middle of the vertebral column, should not be cut before the animal dies, nor should the animal be skinned before it dies.

Issue No. 2235- If two persons jointly hunt an animal while one of them is a Muslim and the other one is an unbeliever, or one of them utters the name of Allah, and the other one does not do so intentionally, the meat of that animal will be haram, as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 2242- If a person sends the dog and he himself reaches the animal with enough time needed to slaughter it, but he does not have a knife or it takes him some time to look for a knife, in case the prey dies during this time, the obligatory precaution is to avoid its meat.

Issue No. 2244- If a person sends a trained dog for hunting an animal and that dog hunts another animal, there is no harm in it, and if it hunts that animal along with another animal, both of them are halal.

Issue No. 2245- If several persons send a dog jointly and one of them is an unbeliever or does not utter the name of Allah intentionally or sends several dogs, and one of them is not trained, as an obligatory precaution, they should avoid the meat of that hunt.