His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah al-Hakeem, receives the Lebanese Ambassador to Iraq

His Eminence, Grand Ayatollah al-Hakeem, receives the Lebanese Ambassador to Iraq
2019/05/05

His Eminence Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Muhammed Saeed al-Hakeem received Mr. Ali Adib al-Habhab, the Ambassador of Lebanon in Baghdad, along with his aides, on Sunday 5 May 2019.

Day Questions

Is it obligatory for a married Muslim woman to become a mother?

Based on compulsory precaution, a wife should not prevent herself from being pregnant unless it is with the consent of the husband.

Is belief in Imamate essential for salvation as some scholars in our community are spreading this ideology?

The belief in the imamate is completion of the faith and Islam. many narrations clearly stated that deeds will not be accepted without the belief in the imamate.

I studied at a public school far away from my home. I used to end my obligatory fasts with the Sunni majority, immediately after sunset. Similarly, I offered the Maghrib prayer immediately after sunset. Please guide me as to whether my fasts and Maghrib prayers are void, and whether it's obligatory on me to repeat the fasts and prayers? Besides this, is a kaffara also obligatory on me?

If you break your fast or performed your prayer before the setting of the sun, then your fast or prayers are invalid. But if you did so after sunset, then your fasts and prayers are correct. If you doubt whether they are correct or not, then you should consider them as correct. There is no kaffara, unless you deliberately broke your fast before the designated time.

If I see somebody begging on the street or looking poor, may I consider him as one of the 60 needy people for the purposes of paying the Kaffara?

Usually they are not trusted to be needy. If one is certain that they are in need then he can give food that satiates them. It is also permissible to give them food if the person knows that they were in need before.