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'The best form of charity is to cool down someone's internal heat [by quenching them], and whoever quenches an animal's or any other being's internal heat, Allah will shade him on the Day when no shade will avail except His shade.'

Imam Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Sadiq [as]

Ibid. p. 172, no. 8

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Question : #454

Category: Holy Qur'an

Subject:	sajada for audio recitation required?
Question:	I listen to a tape recorder, radio or television emitting the voice of a reciter of the Qurían, reciting a verse which demands prostration. Should I prostrate?
Answer:	Certainly not. You are not obliged to prostrate yourself except when you hear it (the verse) from the reciter himself, not on his recorded tape.

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