What is the ruling on eating nasal mucus?
Mucus is pure (tahir), not impure (najis), but it is among the repulsive things that are not permissible to consume. The Shafi'is have explicitly stated the prohibition of its consumption due to its repulsiveness, not due to its impurity.
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