What is the ruling on using an expensive perfume containing musk in prayer, given ignorance of the musk's source, and does it matter whether the musk is extracted from a dead animal like a deer, or from a live or dead animal, or from the secretions of the civet cat, concerning its purity and the permissibility of using it in prayer?
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It is permissible for you to pray in a garment that has perfume on it, the source of which you are unaware, for the basic principle regarding things is purity. Musk is pure if it is extracted from a living animal or one that has been ritually slaughtered. However, if it is extracted from a dead animal that has not been ritually slaughtered, it is impure. Civet is considered pure by some scholars. It is either the milk of a sea cat or the sweat of a wild cat, but it may be mixed with animal hair.
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