مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ١٩٠ - CONDITIONS FOR DRESS WORN DURING PRAYERS

to eat and if he is obliged to wear dress he can offer prayers with that very dress and if he is not obliged to wear dress he should offer prayers in accordance with the rules prescribed for the naked.
٨٥٠. If a person does not have a dress other than a dress which is made of pure silk or is woven with gold, and if he is not obliged to wear dress he should offer prayers in accordance with the rules prescribed for the naked.
٨٥١. If a person does not have anything with which he may cover his private parts while offering prayers, it is obligatory for him to procure such a thing on hire or to purchase it. However, if its procurement necessitates payment of so much money that it is excessive in proportion to his assets or the position is such that if hespends his money on dress it will be harmful for him, he should offer his prayers in accordance with the rules prescribed for the naked.
٨٥٢. If a person does not have a dress and another person gives or lends him a dress, and if its acceptance does not entail any hardship for him, rather, if borrowing or seeking a gift is not hard for him, he should borrow or take the gift of a dress from one, who possesses it.
٨٥٣. Wearing of a dress whose cloth or colour or sewing is not befitting for the person who wears it - for example if a scholarly person wears the dress of asoldier - it is unlawful for him if it is the source of violation of dignity due to him, and if he offers prayers with that dress, which is his only covering, it is not unlikely that his prayers may be void.
٨٥٤. If a man wears the dress of a woman or a woman wears the dress of a man and treats it as his/her garb, it is unlawful. on the basis of precaution, and theorders contained in the foregoing article apply to offering prayers with it.
٨٥٥. If the quilt of a person who should offer prayers in lying posture is made of the parts of an animal, whose meat is unlaw-