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Questions: If we did not know the first day of Ramadan month, and we intended to perform fast for what were required [mā fī al-dhimmah], and during the day we came to know that it is actually the first day of Ramadan (before the noon or after that) and we ...
Answer: In the first given case, the qaḍā’ of fast is not necessary because fasting for what were required [mā fī al-dhimmah] is included the fast of Ramadan, even if he came to know after the noon and intended for Ramadan specially, there is no problem to ...
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Questions: What is the amount of kaffārah for the missed fasts of menstrual cycle in the previous years?
Answer: If she performs the qaḍā’ of the missed fasts for menstrual cycle in the previous month of Ramadan until the next Ramadan month (in case of ability, it is obligatory), there will be no kaffārah for it, but if despite of ability, she does not perform ...
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Questions: I did not keep the fasts for several years. I want to know how I should pay its Kaffārah. Please determine the amount of Kaffārah and where I should pay its Kaffārah.
Answer: The amount of Kaffārah for not keeping the fast intentionally without shar`i reason is about forty eight thousand Tomans for each day, which will be 29 or 30 times in a month and its total will be multiplied according to the number of years and if ...
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Questions: If a person becomes junub in the night of the month of Ramadân intentionally or unintentionally and he knows he will not wake up before the adhân of dawn prayer in the case of sleeping, what is his responsibility if he does not know the ruling?
Answer: He must observe the fast as qadâ but it is not obligatory to pay kaffarâh.
Questions: If a person wakes up before the adhân for dawn prayer and he needs ghusl but he wastes time to do tayammum and he decides to do tayammum but actually adhân starts, what is his responsibility?
Answer: In the given case, he must observe fast according to the caution and also he must perform its qadâ after the month of Ramadân.
Questions: If a person who is junub in the night of the month of Ramadân and does not perform ghusl with the intention to perform ghusl before the dawn prayer, but he wakes up after the adhân for Dawn prayer, is his fast of that day correct?
Answer: In the given case, his fast is in order.
Questions: I am a frequent traveler (traveler by profession and visiting my family), what is the ruling for my prayer and fast?
Answer: If you go to shar`i travel for about ten days or more in a month, in travel your prayer is full and your fasting is also in order.
Questions: Is it harmful for a girl between 10 to 15 years old who is suffering from anemia, to observe fast from dawn to dusk in a hot weather (say honestly the heat 55 to 60 centigrade) and sometimes in a humid weather in the south of the country? Does not ...
Answer: This question is an expert subject and you may ask it from the expert like your proficient and religious doctor and if he say it is harmful, she can break the fast, but breaking the fast is obligatory in some cases in which there are considerable ...
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Questions: My wife cannot maintain the fetus due to the medical problems and so far her fetuses have aborted several times. Doctors recommended that my sperm and her egg fertilize (IVF procedure) in the laboratory and then the resulting embryo is transferred ...
Answer: The owner of the sperm is the father of the born child, but there are different views between jurisprudential scholars about the mother of the born child. Some of them believe that the owner of the egg is her mother and in this case, your brother in ...
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Questions: Since Islam is a perfect religion, why had Islam accepted the issue of slavery and had not abolished it?
Answer: To understand the real issues about slavery in Islam, it should be noted that the most important and most common method for slavery is that one may become captive in the war between Muslims and non-Muslims. Some other ways return eventually to the ...
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