What is the ruling on performing ghusl and wudu with the water from the main canal in Lahore, Pakistan, knowing that some drains are connected to it, many animals are seen in it, and its water color is not transparent?
Scholars unanimously agree that if impurities fall into water and change its color, taste, or smell, it becomes ritually impure (najis) and it is impermissible to perform ablution (wudu') or ritual bathing () with it, regardless of whether the water is little or much. However, if the water is abundant and the impurity has not changed any of its characteristics, then it remains ritually pure (tahur) and it is permissible to perform ablution and ritual bathing with it. The noble indicates that "Water is pure and nothing makes it impure unless it changes due to an impurity." And if the water is not transparent or slightly altered due to its location or prolonged stagnation, and this change is not related to impurity, then it remains pure.
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