Jurisprudence

Q1247: 1) Is it permissible for a healthy woman to use, temporarily, any kind of contraceptive methods that prevent the implantation of the embryo in the uterine wall?2) What is the view on using a device which, although not known how it prevents pre...

Q1247: 1) Is it permissible for a healthy woman to...

Q1243: What is the ruling on money given by a seller to the purchasing agents working for government departments and private companies for the purpose of maintaining good business between them without adding to the actual price so far as the seller a...

Q1243: What is the ruling on money given by a sell...

Q1234: The customers of a bank tip the employees of the bank in order to step up the pace of their work and give them preferential services. What is the view on receiving such money knowing that if the employee did not do anything for them, they will...

Q1234: The customers of a bank tip the employees o...

Q1229: What is the ruling in the matter of selling and buying lottery tickets? And what is the view if any prize is won in the process?A: Buying and selling lottery tickets are not valid. The person winning the prize should not take possession of it,...

Q1229: What is the ruling in the matter of selling...

Q1222: What is the view on teaching, learning, and watching conjuring? And what is the view on performing (to an audience) illusionary tricks which depend on quick handwork?A: It is ḥarām to learn or teach conjuring. As for entertainment accompanied...

Q1222: What is the view on teaching, learning, and...

Q1214: What is the view on making dolls and sculpture, or drawing living beings (plants, animals, and human beings)? And what is the view on selling, buying, acquiring, and exhibiting these items?A: There is no harm at all in the sculpture, photograp...

Q1214: What is the view on making dolls and sculpt...

Q1210: Is it permissible to use the uniform of the Islamic clerk and judges in making moving pictures? Is it permissible to make films that deal with religious and mystical issues, especially those talking about the lives and achievements of the late...

Q1210: Is it permissible to use the uniform of the...

Q1205: Is it permissible to buy, keep and use satellite television equipment to receive programs? And what is the ruling if a person gets such equipment for free?A: By virtue of its nature, a satellite receiver is a medium to access television progra...

Q1205: Is it permissible to buy, keep and use sate...

Q1175: What is the ruling in the matter of looking at pictures of non-maḥram women who are not wearing ḥijāb? What is the view on viewing women appearing on television? Is the ruling different whether these women are Muslims or non-Muslims and whet...

Q1175: What is the ruling in the matter of looking...

Q1173: Is it permissible for women to clap in happy occasions like wedding and birthday parties? Assuming that it is permissible, what if the sound of their clapping reaches outside and is heard by non-maḥram men?A: There is no problem in clapping i...

Q1173: Is it permissible for women to clap in happ...

Q1160: Is it permissible to dance the traditional dancing in wedding parties and what is the view on taking part in such parties?A: If dancing entails sexual excitation or committing a ḥarām act, or has bad consequences, it is not permissible. If pa...

Q1160: Is it permissible to dance the traditional ...

Q1121: What are the criteria by which one can distinguish ḥalāl from ḥarām music? Is classical music ḥalāl?A: Any music which is lahwī and mutrib in the common view — i.e., suitable for gatherings of merry making — is ḥarām whether it is classic ...

Q1121: What are the criteria by which one can dist...

Q1114: Should a group of people take to playing with cards without contemplating betting or winning, for that matter, but only for passing time and amusement, would they be deemed guilty of committing a ḥarām act? And what is the ruling on those att...

Q1114: Should a group of people take to playing wi...

Q1109: Playing chess has become commonplace in most schools. Do you sanction it and organizing courses to teach it?A: From the mukallaf’s perspective, should it not now be considered among the instruments of gambling, there is no objection to playing...

Q1109: Playing chess has become commonplace in mos...

Q1104: What is the ruling on the salaries paid to the professors who teach jurisprudence and fundamentals of jurisprudence in theology colleges?A: The obligation to teach that which is a kifā’ī obligation does not detract from the permissibility of g...

Q1104: What is the ruling on the salaries paid to ...

Q1081: Is it permissible to buy boars (wild pigs), which have been culled to safeguard plantation and grazing lands, with a view to processing their meat for export to non-Islamic countries?A: It is not permissible to buy or sell pork for human consu...

Q1081: Is it permissible to buy boars (wild pigs),...

Q 1041: What is the rule concerning initiation of jihad against infidels during the occultation of the Infallible Imam (a.)? Is it permissible for the qualified mujtahid who possesses state power [the Leader of Muslims] to declare it?A: The opinion t...

Q 1041: What is the rule concerning initiation of ...

Q 1070: My sister is married to a man who does not pray. Since he is with us all the time, I have to associate with him, talk to him, and even at times help him in some work at his request. My question is, am I permitted by Islamic law to associate w...

Q 1070: My sister is married to a man who does not...

Q 1062: What is the duty of a son toward his parents or that of a wife toward her husband when they do not pay khums and zakāt on their assets? Are they allowed to use the assets on which khums or zakāt has not been paid or the assets mixed with ḥar...

Q 1062: What is the duty of a son toward his paren...

Q 1046: What is the rule if enjoining the good and forbidding evil compromises the dignity of someone who fails to carry out an obligatory act or perpetrates a prohibited act, and humiliates him before the people?A: If one observes the conditions and...

Q 1046: What is the rule if enjoining the good and...

Q 1034: Does the municipality have an exclusive right with respect to making use of river bed’s sand in the construction and development of the city and so on? In case of permissibility, if someone, other than the municipality, alleges to be the owne...

Q 1034: Does the municipality have an exclusive ri...