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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...

Q 1008: Some people take the responsibility to pay for the electricity and water bills of some sayyids. Is it possible to include them in one’s annual khums account?A: What they have paid with the intention of paying sayyids’ share is accepted. Howev...

Q 1008: Some people take the responsibility to pay...

Q 1004: My mother is a sayyidah. I would be grateful if you would kindly answer the following questions:Do I qualify as a sayyid?Do my children and grandchildren, etc., identify as sayyids?What is the difference between a sayyid from the father’s sid...

Q 1004: My mother is a sayyidah. I would be gratef...

Q 998: Considering the honorable view of the late Imam Khomeini (q.) and that of yours and of some other mujtahids that khums, zakāt, and the like should be paid to the leader of Muslims, what is the ruling of paying such things to a person other tha...

Q 998: Considering the honorable view of the late ...

Q 989: Is one obliged to specify a date for one’s khums year, although he is certain nothing of his income will exceed his living expenditures at the year’s end? What is the ruling regarding an individual who did not specify a certain date for it bec...

Q 989: Is one obliged to specify a date for one’s ...

Q 971: What is the ruling regarding postponement of paying khums from one year to the next?A: To delay the payment of khums to the next year is impermissible, although paying it at any time will free one’s debt. One does not have any right to use tha...

Q 971: What is the ruling regarding postponement o...

Q 921: Some people have outstanding khums, and at present they are either unable to pay it or its payment would put them to severe hardship. What rule applies to them?A: They are not relieved of the obligation to pay khums due to mere inability to pa...

Q 921: Some people have outstanding khums, and at ...

Q 896: Someone has a personal library whose books he used for a while. For several years he has not used them, but it is likely that he may use them in the future. Does khums apply to the library in the period that he does not use the books? Is there...

Q 896: Someone has a personal library whose books ...

Q 887: What is your opinion concerning buried treasure that someone finds on his own land?A: If he does not suspect that the found treasure belonged to the previous owner of the land, it belongs to him, and he must pay khums on it if it exceeds 20 go...

Q 887: What is your opinion concerning buried trea...

Q 876: Is khums applicable to a house constructed some time ago with the money from which khums had not been paid? Assuming that its khums is obligatory, does the appropriate khums correspond to its current value or to the value of the money spent on...

Q 876: Is khums applicable to a house constructed ...

Q 861: Is it obligatory for employees having a surplus remaining over their annual expenses to pay khums, considering that they owe money which is due or should be paid in installments?A: If the debt incurred during the year was for expenditure of th...

Q 861: Is it obligatory for employees having a sur...