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Ask A Question About Islam And Muslims

23 Questions

When is the 60 days of Kaffarah observed? Must it be completed after Eid, or can it be delayed for a few months? Additionally, is it better to fast or to make a payment instead?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Kaffara is a penalty on those who deliberately break obligatory fast or do not keep it. For those who deliberately don’t fast during the month of Ramadan, for one day,v the Kaffara is either fasting two sequent months or feeding sixty poor believers. It is good to do it as soon as possible and should not be postponed to an extended that it might be forgotten or ignored. Feeding sixty poor believers must be by giving them ready food or food grain and not money. Every ooor believers must must be given either a meal or 750 grams of food grains.

Wassalam.
Is it appropriate to mourn or conduct Majlis, recite Noha, and perform Matam during weddings and Eid, considering that some Shia believe that Eid coincides with the 10th day of Imam Ali's martyrdom?
Zaid Alsalami

Bismihi ta'ala

Unfortunately, this is a clear misguided view and practice. In the dua we recite on Eid al-Fitr day, it says it is a day in which Allah ta'ala made it as Eid for Muslims. It is definitely not appropriate to change a happy celebration occasion to mourning and ma'tam. There is a time for each of them. 

As the hadith says, "Our Shi'ah..... they grieve when we grieve, and are happy when we are happy." 

Much more can be said about this, and the most important thing is one follows not what a small fringe group does, but what majority of Shi'ah do, especially our mainstream esteemed 'Ulama.

And Allah knows best
Is Eid ul Ghadeer considered a more significant celebration than the two primary Eids? If so, what is the evidence for it?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

Yes of course. The authentic Hadeeth from the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) narrated by Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq (AS) states that Friday is more important than Eidul Ghadeer is the greatest Eid in Islam. ( Wasaa'il Al-Shia by al-Hurr Aamily, volume 5, page 224).

Wassalam.
If one's father does not make sacrifice on Eid-ul-Adha and does not pay Zakat, are their adult children responsible? Is the household income Haram?
Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi

If the father does not fulfill his obligatory duties, his children are not responsible about that. The sacrifice (Qurbani) is not obligatory but only in Hajj. 
'if the father does not pay his financial dues like Zakat and Khums, the household income does not become Haraam.

Wassalam.