shempmcgurk wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> shempmcgurk wrote: >> >>> Khameini: Don't masturbate during Ramadan >>> >>> >>> Iran's supreme leader answers questions on masturbation and >>> > other > >>> topics on his website >>> >>> >>> Deliberate masturbation during the month of Ramadan renders a >>> > fast > >>> invalid, Iranian Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali Khameini has ruled. >>> >>> >>> Khameini, who is Iran's most powerful political and religious >>> figure, was asked on his website : "If somebody masturbates >>> > during > >>> the month of Ramadan but without any discharge, is his fasting >>> invalidated?" >>> >>> "If he do not intend masturbation and discharging semen and >>> > nothing > >>> is discharged, his fasting is correct even though he has done a >>> ḥarām (forbidden) act. But, if he intends >>> > masturbation or he knows > >>> that he usually discharges semen by this process and semen >>> > really > >>> comes out, it is a ḥaram intentional breaking fasting," >>> > the Iranian > >>> leader said, posting the reply on his website. >>> >>> >>> >>> Another reader asked: "Once in the holy month of Ramadan, I >>> > forgot > >>> to brush my teeth, and some tiny bits of food remained in my >>> > mouth. > >>> I swallowed the bits unintentionally. Do I have to perform the >>> > qaḍa > >>> (repent) for that day's fast?" >>> >>> >>> >>> "If you did not know that some bits of food remained between the >>> teeth, or you did not know that they would reach the throat, and >>> they were swallowed unknowingly and unintentionally, then you >>> > are > >>> not liable to make (repent) of the fast," said Khameini. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> 'Drink water while standing' >>> >>> On the website, Khameini also tells Iranians that only jockeys >>> > are > >>> permitted to gamble on horse races. >>> >>> >>> >>> He is also asked whether it is permissible for a man to marry a >>> woman only in order to be able to live in his wife's >>> > country. "Can a > >>> man conclude a marriage contract for a year with a European girl >>> after getting her agreement with the purpose of going to her >>> country?" A reader asked. >>> >>> >>> >>> "There is no problem in that if they are serious in contracting >>> marriage and it is done with her father's permission if she is >>> virgin," Khameini ruled. >>> >>> >>> >>> The Iranian leader also told readers they were allowed to "to >>> > drink > >>> water while standing" at nights. It was "not permissible" to >>> > take > >>> part in meetings attended by both men and women, he told another >>> reader. >>> >>> >>> >>> "In Islam's view, rulers and governments exist just to serve >>> > people > >>> and carry out works in the interest of the public and this is >>> > what > >>> God demands us, as authorities, to fulfill," Khamenei was quoted >>> Tuesday telling Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. >>> >> Shemp, sometimes I think you would have been happier with Rajneesh >> > than > >> with Maharishi. >> >> > > > If I would have been guaranteed to get some of that free loving that > was going on at that Oregon compound, I would have joined up in an > instant... I believe that is how they got so many people there. I wonder how many TM'ers and even TM teachers joined that crowd?
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