Jurisprudence

Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) standing1- If one thinks they may be able to say their prayer in standing position by the end of adā’ time, they can say their prayer at the beginning of time; although it is ...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- If a masjid is usurped and another building like a house is built on its site so that no one calls it a masjid any more, it is still ḥarām to make it najis and it is oblig...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- If a person offers his prayer in a usurped place while he/she does not know that or forgets it and he/she remembers/becomes aware of that after finishing prayer, the prayer...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- If one does not know or forgets that one’s clothes are usurped and he/she prays with them, his/her prayer is correct. But if one oneself had usurped these clothes and then ...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- Question: Is it true that according to your fatwā concerning true fajr in the bright moonlit nights, one has to wait for a while until the whiteness of the dawn becomes mor...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- If one has no means to find out the qiblah direction or has no idea about it in spite of one’s efforts, one must, if time allows, offer four prayers each towards one of the...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- If a Muslim – male or female, old or young – is dying, his/her body must be placed so that he/she would lie on his/her back while the sole of the feet face qiblah. 1- It i...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- In tayammum four things are obligatory:a) Intention, b) Striking the palms of both hands on something on which tayammum is correct, c) Passing the palms of both hands over ...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- One of the things ḥarām for a junub is recitation of Qur'anic chapters which contain obligatory prostration such as: chapter no. 32 (al-sajdah), chapter no. 41 (Fuṣṣilat...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- When "kurr" water is measured in kilo, according to the strongest view it is equal to 377.419 kilograms. 1- Kurr water is approximately 384 liters. 2- Question: How mus...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1- It is obligatory to follow a mujtahid who is just, living, mature, sane, male, born out of a legitimate marriage and a Twelver Shi‘ite. One should, by obligatory caution, f...

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Fatwās Of Imam Khomeini (q.) Fatwās of the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei (d.) 1-[In wuḍū’] after having wiped the head, one has to wipe back of the feet (from the tip of one toe until the bony protrusion before the ankle joint) with the moisture of wud...

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The Imamis are agreed - following the Imams from the family of Muhammad (P) - on the prerequisite of purity of the water [used] for wudu and ghusl whether a person is at home or on a journey. They also agree that if getting water is difficult, then t...

The Imamis are agreed - following the Imams from t...

The Imamis have agreed - in following the Imams of the two weighty things - on the necessity of having an intention of the wudu and ritual bath (ghusl) for them to be valid. For they are acts of worship which Allah has commanded: "They have not been ...

The Imamis have agreed - in following the Imams of...

Our scholars - in following their Imams - state that the continuance of the acts of wudu is a condition for it being correct. The condition is that the previous part should not become dry - given the same time, place and health of the one performing ...

Our scholars - in following their Imams - state th...

The Imamis have agreed - in following the Imams of the pure family - in imposing the sequence of acts in the wudu in the manner which has been described in the noble verse. The Malikis, Hanafis, Sufyan al-Thawri and Dawud have ruled that it is not a ...

The Imamis have agreed - in following the Imams of...

The people of the four schools of thought have agreed that the washing of the head in the wudu is sufficient instead of wiping on it, however, they have differed as to whether it is an abominable act or not. The Hanafis and Hanbalis stated that it is...

The people of the four schools of thought have agr...

The Imamis are agreed - in following the Imams from the pure family - that the mash of the ears is not a part of the wudu, for there is no proof for it in the book, the Sunni or in any consensus. Rather, it is clear from the book that the wudu consis...

The Imamis are agreed - in following the Imams fro...

Our scholars have ruled that there is no limit to the mash on the head, not for what one is wiping with (extent of fingers) nor what is being wiped, rather, what is normally called a wiping is sufficient even if that means the minimum of touching acc...

Our scholars have ruled that there is no limit to ...

Our scholars have stated that wiping on the turban is not allowed. This is the view of al-Shafi'i, Abu Hanifa and Malik. Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal, Abu Thawr, al-Qasim b. Salam, al-Awzai and al-Thawri opposed this. The difference is reported from others t...

Our scholars have stated that wiping on the turban...

The jurists of Islam have differed greatly on the [question of] wiping on slippers and socks, [differences] which can not be covered in this haste. In short, the discussion on it is connected with the question of its permissibility and non-permissibi...

The jurists of Islam have differed greatly on the ...