Al-Sayyid al-Hakeem Passes Away

Al-Sayyid al-Hakeem Passes Away
2021/09/03

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

Indeed, we belong to Allah, and to Him do we indeed return.

His Eminence, Grand Ayatullah al-Sayyid Muhammad Sa’eed al-Tabataba’i al-Hakeem, has passed away to and returned to his Lord, the Most High. We pay our condolences to the nation of Islam, especially to the followers of the Ahlulbait (Peace be upon them) and the Islamic seminaries (Hawzas).

 We pray to Allah Almighty to bestow upon him His extensive and abundant mercy and blessings, and to raise him with the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and the Ahlulbait (peace be upon him).

There is no power or strength, except that of Allah, the Most High, the Most Mighty.

 

The Office of His Eminence al-Sayyid al-Hakeem, 25 Muharram 1443 (3 September, 2021)

Day Questions

Is playing in a sports tournament allowed, in which each team or participant pays an entry fee, and there are prizes for winners and runners-up?

If there is an agreement between the competitors that each one of them pays an entry fee, in addition to a condition that the winner will receive a prize, then this agreement is prohibited. If the agreement was to pay a specific amount of money to the organizing committee for participating in the tournament, and the organizing committee has control over the collected monies in managing the game, without putting a condition that obligates the committee to give a prize to the winner(s), but the committee gives the prize as a gift without any obligation, then the agreement in this form is permissible.

I am a new Muslim I have been following Sunni Islam I have now read some books on Shia Islam and I would like to become a Shia but there is no Shia mosque where I live can I still pray like a Sunni and go to the Sunni mosque?

There is nothing wrong with visiting Sunni Mosques but the prayer should be according to the sect of the Ahlulbait as believing in their path imposes the believer to so do as they are the smallest amongst the two weighty things that the Prophet (peace be upon him) commend us to refer to.

Is "786" considered as "Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem"? What is the ruling of touching it without wudhu?

There is no problem in writing it to refer to the Besmalah, but the laws pertaining to the actual Besmalah, like the prohibition of touching it without the state of ablution, are not applicable to it.

Can I have friendship with a female class fellow?

Friendship with the opposite sex may lead to committing sins, so we advise you to stay away from it.

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