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What is the ruling regarding my prayers and my prayer rug after a small amount of impurity, which I did not intend, touched it, and is a small amount of impurity that is not difficult for me to wash excused? And what is the ruling regarding the places my mother purified without knowing, after I wiped them with madhy?

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We advise you to turn away from obsessive doubts (waswasah), for impurity is not transferred merely by doubt, and no attention should be paid to it unless it reaches certain conviction.

Many scholars are of the view that impurity is not transferred from an impure object to a pure one if either of them is wet. Some also hold that a small amount of madhiy (pre-seminal fluid) is among the impurities that are excused.

Since you are experiencing obsessive doubts, you are permitted to adopt these lenient opinions. Your prayers are valid, for the removal of impurity does not require intention, and the small, excused impurities do not necessitate purification.

Sprinkling water is not sufficient for purifying impurity; rather, it is necessary to pour and immerse the area, except for what has been exempted, such as the urine of an infant boy and madhiy, for which sprinkling is sufficient.

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