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− Indiscretions During Hajj and the Reparations ± It is forbidden for a pilgrim to cut hair or pare nails, to cover his head or to put on socks, to use perfume, to hunt an animal or to slaughter it, to engage in flippant loose talk, to squabble or quarrel and to behave in an undignified manner. 1. If someone while in due to some reason wears sewn Ihram ± − clothes or shaves his head due to lice in the head, then one has to pay (expiation) as a reparation for these Fidyah indiscretions. However, if someone does not have unsewn clothes he can wear sewn clothes but he has to pay Fidyah in this situation also. (Hidaya Kitabul Hajj, p 199/1) − − ± 2. If someone, while in does hunting of an animal then Ihram, ± − as its atonement he has to sacrifice an animal equivalent to the animal he has hunted, e. g. , if one has hunted a deer he should sacrifice a goat or a sheep in the slaughter house at Mina. If he has hunted an ostrich he should sacrifice a − camel. If one cannot afford to sacrifice an animal then he must provide food to six poor people. If one cannot do even this then he must keep three fasts. (Fiqh Ahmadiyya, Ibadat, p 337) ± − − ZAKAT − Zakat is a kind of worship prescribed in order to bring about − equitable economic adjustment in society. The Arabic word literally Zakat − means to purify something. In this context a mandatory payment of a fixed portion of the wealth would mean that the residual wealth after the deduction of has been rendered pure and lawful for the believers. Zakat − 165