What is the ruling on eating the fruits of trees, such as date palms or olive trees, that were planted next to sewage tanks and whose roots extend into them, feeding on them?
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There is no harm in eating fruits irrigated with impure water, as the preponderant opinion among scholars is the permissibility of irrigating crops with impure water and the permissibility of eating their fruits, because the fruit and the vegetable are pure.
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