The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.620- If a person is in the state of wuḍū and knows that if he makes his wuḍū void, he will not be able to perform wuḍūagain, he should try to preserve his wuḍū for prayer, provided that it entails no extraordinary harm or hardship. Even if it is considerably likely that he will not be able to find water for wuḍū, or if he has wuḍū before prayer time and knows that later he will not have access to water, the obligatory precaution is that he should preserve his wuḍū.

Issue No.1844- If a debtor knows the amount he owes, yet, he declares that he does not know, and his creditor does not know either so he makes compromise with the debtor for an amount less than what he owes him, it will not be in order, and the debtor will remain indebted to the creditor in respect of that extra proportion, unless the circumstances are such that even if the creditor had known the amount of debt, he would have made compromise for that very amount.

Issue No. 2097- If a Muslim man who is born from Muslim parents becomes an apostate and denies Allah or the Prophet Muhammad (ṣ), or denies one of the indisputable commandments of Islam, likedenial of prayer and fasting being obligatory, in a manner that the denial entails denial of Allah or the Prophet (ṣ), his marriage becomes revoked, and his wife should separate from him and observe ‘iddah for death, that is, she should observe the waiting period of a woman whose husband has died. Once the ‘iddah period is over, she can marry another man. If she has reached the age of menopause or has not yet had sexual intercourse with her husband, it is not necessary for her to observe ‘iddah.

Issue No.1925- If the agent or the principal dies or becomes insane, the agency becomes invalid, though the insane may become sane later. Temporary insanity also causes, on the basis of obligatory precaution, the agency to become invalid. However, temporary unconsciousness does not make the agency invalid.

Issue No.468- A woman who sees blood at a particular time in two consecutive months for three days or more and then becomes ṭāhir, and again sees blood for three days or more, while the total number of the days in which the blood discharged and the days in which she was ṭāhir does not exceed ten days (but the number of days in the second month is either less or more than the first month), should also consider all the days in which she has seen blood as ḥayḍ. However, during the days in between, in which the blood ceased, she should follow the rules relating to a ṭāhir woman.

Issue No.462- If a woman who has a regular period sees blood for three days or more and then the bleeding stops and after a while which is less than ten days, the bleeding starts again, if the total number of days in between (including the days she sees no blood) does not exceed ten days, all of it is ḥayḍ (but during the middle period in which the bleeding had ceased, she is considered to be ṭāhir). However, if the period in between exceeds ten days, the blood that was discharged in the days of her menstrual period is ḥayḍ and the rest is considered as istiḥāḍah. In case however, neither of them was in the days of her menstrual period, the blood which had the signs of ḥayḍ is regarded as ḥayḍ and the other is considered as istiḥāḍah, and if both had the signs of ḥayḍ, ten days of bleeding should be regarded as ḥayḍ and the extra following days should be taken as istiḥāḍah.

Issue No. 2156- Divorces are of two kinds: irrevocable divorce and revocable divorce.Irrevocable divorce means that after the divorce, the husband is not entitled to re-join his wife without a new marriage contract. This divorce is of five kinds:(i) The divorce of a woman who has not completed nine years of her age.(ii) The divorce of a woman who is in menopause, i.e., a woman who is over 50 years of age [1].(iii) The divorce of a woman whose husband has not had sexual intercourse with her after their marriage.(iv) The third divorce of a woman who is divorced three times.(v) The divorce called khul‘ and mubārāt which will be explained later.Divorces other than these are revocable in the sense that as long as the wife is observing ‘iddah her husband can re-join her.

Issue No. 2340- If a person comes to know that someone has appointed him as his executor, and he informs the testator that he is not prepared to perform the duties of an executor, and if he (the testator) can appoint another person as the executor of his Will, the first Will becomes void. However, if he does not come to know about it before the death of the testator, or comes to know about it but does not inform the testator that he is not prepared to act as an executor, or he informs him, but he does not have access to anyone else, the obligatory precaution is that he should act upon the Will except for when the execution of the Will involves extreme hardship for him.

Issue No.1843- If a person wants to give up his claim from another person in exchange for something or for nothing by way of compromise, it will be in order in case the other side accepts it. However, if he wants to waive his claim or his right, the acceptance of the other party will not be necessary. And this is also a kind of compromise.

Issue No.424- Any blood a woman discharges is classified as the blood of istiḥāḍah, given that it is not the blood of a wound or hymen, and also does not meet the conditions of ḥayḍ (monthly period) or nifās (lochia).

Issue No.81- The purpose of istibrā from semen is to ensure that no more semen is left in the urethra and if after that, a moisture is discharged and one does not know whether it is semen or one of the abovementioned ṭāhir moistures, he does not have to redo ghusl. But if he has not done istibrā, and he considers it probable that the tiny particles of semen had been left in the urethra and have been discharged along with urine or another moisture, he must perform ghusl again.

Issue No.83- Istibrā is not meant for women, therefore the doubted discharged moisture of women is ṭāhir and there is no need to redo wuḍū and ghusl.