Jurisprudence & Religious affairs
Khums on deposit amount for renting a house For renting a house, people usually give a sum of money in advance. If this money is obtained from one’s earnings and remains with the ho...
Taking body organs of a dying person
If a person is suffering from a fatal illness and doctors say he will die soon, is it permissible to remove certain organs from his body, such as heart, kidney, etc., before he is dead so that it can be transplanted in the body of another person?
Selling a property stipulating purchasing it from the same buyer
Some people sell their property with the condition of buying the same later from the buyer at a higher price. Are such deals valid?
Connection between males’ and females’ rows in a congregational prayer
How should the lines of men and women be connected when there is no curtain between?
Reliability of a du‘ā’ by a supplication writer
What is the ruling in the matter of supplications whose writers allege that they are found in old books? Are these supplications lawfully recognized? And what is the view on reciting them?
Selling a check
What is the ruling in the matter of selling post-dated checks or bills of exchange for less than their nominal value for cash?
Formal gifting to escape paying khums
In order to evade payment of khums on their assets, a husband and wife give each other their annual income as gifts prior to the end of their khums year. Please explain the rule concerning their liability to khums.
Purity of People of the Book
Some mujtahids are of the opinion that the People of the Book are najis, while some others consider them pure. What is your opinion?
Buying a grave during one’s life
Is it permissible for anyone to buy a piece of land to be used for burial and building a grave over it before one actually dies?
Attending music and ghinā’ gathering
Is it permissible to take part in gatherings where morally corrupt songs of ghinā’ are sung? And what is the ruling if someone is doubtful as to the nature of the songs and he cannot stop it?
Shaving a part of the beard
Some men leave the hair around the chin to grow, i.e., goatee, and shave the rest of the beard. What is the view on such practice?
How a ma‘mūm should recite (Ḥamd and sūrah) during imām’s 3rd or 4th rak‘ah
Does a person have to read the Fātiḥah and another chapter loudly when he is doing his second rak‘ah while the imam is in his third or fourth rak‘ah of ‘ishā’ prayer?
Scope of ribā prohibition
Is ribā ḥarām across the board, i.e. for all legal/personal entities, or are there special cases?
Local dance
What is the ruling in the matter of traditional dancing in either mixed groups of men and women, men only, or women only?
