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Is it permissible to adopt the view of Imam Malik that water is not rendered impure unless its characteristics change, when discovering traces of impurity on a piece of clothing after washing it in a washing machine, so as to avoid the hardship of purifying all places if the clothes become impure?

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If a garment soiled with impurity is washed with other clothes inside the washing machine, and the water does not change due to the impurity, then the other clothes do not become impure according to the Maliki school of thought and those who agree with them. As for the impure garment itself, it must be washed until the smell and color of the impurity disappear. However, if it is difficult to remove the color, its persistence does not matter, based on the hadith of Khawlah bint Yasar: "It is sufficient for you to wash the blood, and its trace does not harm you."

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