Is it permissible to eat cheese into which a lizard fell and died, knowing that it is covered with water, and how is it purified?
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The lizard is a type of gecko. If it falls into water or a liquid, it does not contaminate it, because it does not have flowing blood, as explicitly stated by Al-Ramli and Al-Nawawi.
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