'What are the additional or occasional prayers?'(A.)'The least is a one-bow prayer and the most eleven.'(Q.)'What is the forenoon prayer?'(A.)'At leasttwo one-bow prayers and at mosttwelve.'(Q.)'What is the service of seclusion?'
(A.)'It is a matter of Traditional ordinance.'
(Q.)'What are its conditions?'(A.)'(1)Expression of intent(2)not leaving the mosque save of necessity(3)not having to do with a woman(4)fasting and(5)abstaining from speech.'
(Q.)'Under what conditions is pilgrimage obligatory?'(A.)
'So a man be of full age and understanding and a true-believer and it be possible to him;and it is obligatory [on all]once before death.'(Q.)'What are the Koranic statutes of the pilgrimage?'(A.)'(1)Assumption of the pilgrim's habit(2)station at Arafat(3)compassing [the Kaabeh](4)running[between Sefa and Merweh ] and(5)[previous] shaving or clipping the hair.'(Q.)'What are the Koranic statutes of the lesser pilgrimage?'(A.)'Reassuming the pilgrim's habit and compassing and running [as before].'(Q.)'What are the Koranic ordinances of the assumption of the pilgrim's habit?'(A.)
'Putting off sewn garmentsforswearing perfume and ceasing to shave the head or cut the nails and avoiding the killing of game and copulation.'(Q.)'What are the Traditional statutes of the pilgrimage?'(A.)'(1)The crying out'Here I amO our Lord!'(2)the circuitings [about the Kaabeh] of arrival [at] and departure [from Mecca](3)the passing the night at Muzdelifeh and Mina and(4)the stone-throwing.'
(Q.)'What is the war in defence of the Faith and its essentials?'(A.)'Its essentials are(1)the descent of the infidels upon us(2)the existence of the Imam(3)a state of [armed] preparation and(4)firmness in meeting the foe. Its ordinance is incital to battlein that the Most High hath said'O my Prophetincite the faithful to battle!'
(Q.)'What are the ordinances of buying and selling?'
(A.)'The Koranic are(1)offer and acceptance and(2)if the thing sold be a(white)slaveby whom one profitethto do one's endeavour to convert him to Islam and(3)to abstain from usury;the Traditionalresiliation and option before separatingafter the saying of the Prophet'The parties to a sale shall have the option [of cancelling or altering the terms of a bargain,] whilst they are yet unseparated.'