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Imam once told me: "Once, Shah's agents bursted into my house, arrested me, and took me towards Tehran. On the Qum-Tehran road I told them it was the time for the Fajr prayers and I asked them to stop at a place where I could do wudhu. They replied that they did not have permission to do so. I said to them, 'You are armed and I am weapon-less. I won't be able to do anything.' Again they said that they did not have permission. I knew it was pointless and they would not stop the car. I said, 'At least stop for a while so that I can do tayammum by the side of the road.'
In the end, they stopped the car. However, they did not let me get down. Whilst still sitting in the car, I bent down and did tayammum. I then said my prayers with my back facing Qibla.
That day I said my prayers with tayammum, my back towards Qibla, and in a moving vehicle. Perhaps those two rak'at prayers will achieve God's pleasure."
Mrs Farida Mustafa – Imam's daughter
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