Questions Put to Imam (AS)

QUESTION 1: Tell me the razor blade which Adam used first to shave his head ; soon after Haj prayers in the Mina, as it was the part of haj ending ?
ANSWER : Imam (A.S) said the angel Jibraiel had brought a powder to Adam to shave his hairs.

QUESTION 2: Why the dead body is washed and bathed and why the dead body prayer is performed?
ANSWER: The dead body is to wash to make it clean. The pure and clean angels meet to him and ask, and the prayers is to ask pardon for him to Allah, he may be forgiven.

QUESTION 3: Why five Takbeers are called on the dead body prayer?
ANSWER: It is in return of five times daily prayer at a time.

QUESTION 4: Suppose a man found some eggs in a barren place cave how it should be tested and found whether those were lawful to eat or not?
ANSWER: Look at their shape making; if it is different in shape from head and tail it is lawful to eat. If it is equal in shape and size it is unlawful for eating.

QUESTION 5: Who alarmed and terrified his nation, but not from the mankind or jinn and angels?
ANSWER: She was an ant who alarmed her company from the arrival of Sulaiman's army.