The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 2048- A Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim. However, a male Muslim can marry an ahl al-kitāb (People of the book) woman, like Jews or Christians.

Issue No. 2056- If a mature person commits sodomy with a boy, the mother, sister and the daughter of the boy become haram for him to marry, whether that boy is mature [1] or not. However, if the person committing sodomy is a minor, they do not become haram to him, and the same ruling applies when he doubts whether penetration occurred or not.

Issue No. 2112- A person cannot marry a girl suckled fully by that person’s mother, or grandmother. Also, if the wife of one’s father (stepmother) has suckled a child from the milk belonging to his father, he cannot marry that girl.

Issue No. 2058- If a person who is in the state of Iḥrām [the state in which ḥajj or ‘umrah are to be performed] marries a woman, the marriage is void, and if he knew that it was haram for him to get married in the state of Ihram, he cannot marry that woman again, irrespective of whether he has had sexual intercourse with her or not.

Issue No. 2057- If a person marries the mother, sister or daughter of someone, and commits sodomy with him after the marriage, they will not become haram to him.

Issue No. 2060- If a person contracts marriage with an immature [1] girl with the consent of her legal guardian, it is haram to have sexual intercourse with her before she has completed her nine years, and it is not allowed as an obligatory precaution even after she has completed her nine years if she is not ready physically. However, if he does have sexual intercourse with her and it leads to her ifḍā [2], she does not become haram to him, especially if she recovers due to undergoing an operation or treatment. Therefore, in order for a man to have sexual intercourse with a woman, in addition to the completion of nine years of age, it is necessary for the woman to be physically fit for this purpose, and if there is the fear of ifḍā or becoming defective, it is not allowed as an obligatory precaution to have sexual intercourse with her, even if she is mature.

Issue No. 2050- If a man commits adultery with a woman who is in the ‘iddah period of someone else, he cannot marry her, as an obligatory precaution, irrespective of whether the divorce is revocable or irrevocable. However, if not knowing this rule, one gets married with such woman his marriage is in order.

Issue No.603- As it was said earlier, it is obligatory to give bathe and shroud the dead body of a Muslim. However, two groups are exception to this rule:The first group: “The Martyrs in the way of Allah” i.e. those who have been killed in a battlefield in a holy war for the cause of Islam while accompanying the Prophet (pbuh) or the Infallible Imam (a.s.) or his special deputy. Also those who are killed while fighting the enemies of Islam during the occultation of Imam Mahdi, the Imam of Time (may our souls be sacrificed for him), bathing, shrouding and embalmment are not obligatory, irrespective of whether those who are killed are men or women, adult or child; they should be buried with their same dresses on after offering prayers for them.

Issue No. 1347- If a person, who is observing fast, performs masturbation (Istimna), his fast becomes void. If semen is discharged involuntarily, while sleeping or awake, his fast does not become void.

Issue No. 1347- If one who is fasting commits an act to oneself that causes the discharging of semen, his fast is void; if semen is discharged involuntarily however, while sleeping or awake, his fast does not become void.null

Issue No.64- One can use anything to cover the private parts; it is sufficient if, for example, he covers them with the hand or turbid water.

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’.