Issue No. 1503- As was mentioned earlier, expenses spent on ḥajj or mustaḥab Zīyārat is not liable to khums if it is from the incomes of the same year. In case he has to enrol himself and pay for the expenses a few years earlier, it will be reckoned as the expenditure of the same year and is not liable to khums neither in that year nor in the following years.
Issue No. 1524- The pension or the redundancy payment is counted as part of the same year’s profit, and if nothing of it is left by the end of the year, khums would not be due on it otherwise it will be subject to khums.
Issue No. 2446- It is permissible to amputate one of the limbs of a person during his lifetime, like what is in common about kidney transplantation in which one of the two kidneys of a living person is removed and fixed to the body of another person. This is permissible only if the donor consents to it and when his own life is not endangered. And the precaution is that if compensation is received, it should be for the permission for removing the limb, not for the limb itself.
Issue No.1766- The practice of Usury is haram, and it is of two kinds: 1) Usury in loan that will be explained, InshAllah, in the section dealing with loans. 2) Usury in transaction; this means to sell a quantity of a commodity which is sold by weight or volume at a higher rate against the same type of commodity, such as selling three kilos of wheat for 31⁄2 kilos of wheat. In Islamic narrations, usury has been extremely advised against and is considered a major sin.
Issue No.1895- If it transpires, after cultivation and before the harvest, that the contract of Sharecropping had been void and if the seeds belonged to the landowner, the produce would belong to him, and he should pay the wages of the farmer at the usual rate. In case however, the seeds belonged to the farmer, the produce would belong to him, and he should pay the landowner the rent of the land as usual. If the landowner does not agree that the crop remain on his land until the end of the period, the farmer should collect the crop provided that this would not cause harm and loss to him, and that the remaining on the land and paying the rent should not cause harm and loss to the landowner.
Issue No. 1215- A person who is hired to offer the qaḍā prayers of a dead person should know the rules of prayer well and should be able to perform a correct recitation.
Issue No. 1399- If a person intentionally and knowingly commits acts which invalidate fast, not only does his fast becomes void but he should also offer qaḍā and kaffāra. However, if it is on account of being ignorant in knowing the rule, there is no kaffāra, but he should offer qaḍā.
7 - LaughingIssue No. 1031 - The seventh invalidator is an intentional loud laugh, even though it may be uncontrollable. However, smiling does not make a prayer void even though it may be intentional; also, laughing inadvertently thinking that one is not offering prayer, does not make the prayer void.
Issue No.795- If a person knows that a certain place is usurped but does not know the rule of prayer in a usurped place and offers prayer there, he should repeat his prayer as an obligatory precaution.
Issue No.1851- A person can become the agent of another person and rent out his property on his behalf. Similarly, the legal guardian of a minor can give his property on lease, provided that it is in his interest, and the obligatory precaution is that the period after his maturity [1] should not be included in the lease agreement unless the minor’s interest is not realized otherwise. In case the minor has no guardian, one should get the Mujtahid’s permission, and if he does not have access to a just Mujtahid or his representative, he should get the permission of a just believer who can observe the interest of the minor.
Issue No.1865- In hotels or guest houses where one does not know how long he is going to stay there and he settles with the landlord that he will, for example, pay £10.00 per night as rent and the landlord also agrees to it, there is no problem in using the house. However, as the period of the lease has not been specified, the lease is not in order. Hence, as long as the landlord is agreeable to his stay, he can stay there; otherwise he will not have any right. Nevertheless, if the number of nights is specified from the beginning, he has the right to stay there until the end of the period.
Issue No. 2437- If a person takes a property on lease by giving key money to its owner for a certain period, he can lease it out to someone else during his tenancy for the same amount of rent but he can get whatever amount of key money they (the first and the second tenants) agree with each other. The agreement of the owner of the property in the transfer of the lease is also a condition, and if this authority has been given to the first tenant from the beginning, there would be no objection to the transaction.
