Impurity and Cleaning
1,557 questions
Is prayer obligatory for a man who is severely ill, unable to stand or sit, and unable to remove impurities?
What is the method for washing the deceased?
Are continuous vaginal discharges impure, and is it obligatory to wash the body and clothes from them? And is one sinful for chatting with a young man, pretending to be a man, in order to learn his way of thinking?
What should I do if I work in a company where employees use gloves made of pigskin, knowing that touching a pig necessitates washing the hands seven times, one of them with earth?
Can the emission of pure semen from the impure urinary tract be considered evidence for the excusability of slight impurity?
Is it obligatory to wash the prayer rug or bedsheet if it has been touched by wet impurities from a baby girl's diaper, but no trace of that wetness is visible on the prayer rug or bedsheet?
Is it obligatory for a menstruating woman to perform istinja' after urinating?
What is the form and description of the black circle located on a mule's foreleg, and what is the permissible amount of blood for the validity of ritual purity (taharah)?
What should we do during prayer if we catch a cold?
What is the ruling regarding a bed and prayer area after wiping them with a towel dampened with water and Lysol, knowing that impurity is removed by pouring water? And are objects touched by a hand, after it has touched the anus and been purified with hand sanitizer, considered impure?
What is the ruling on touching a dog's cells and its DNA for study purposes?
Is semen pure or impure, and what is the ruling on the saying that man was created from impurity?
Is a small amount of all types of impurities (najasat) excused according to the Hanafis if it affects the product, such as food and drink?
Does touching the anus during ablution (istinja') nullify wudu', or is touching it for the purpose of cleaning not considered a nullifier?
Is white alum pure?
Is a slight impurity pardoned?
What is the ruling on water droplets that splash from a washing machine onto the body and clothes, given that there are impure clothes inside it, and how can one guard against them? Does touching the inner lid of the washing machine, after it has been splattered with these droplets, make the hand impure?
Is ammonia solution ritually pure (tahir), and is a woman's prayer permissible if her hair is dyed with a dye containing it, especially given that its smell resembles the smell of cat feces?
Was the Prophet (peace be upon him) cautious of germs and did he use soap or lotus fibers, and should we follow modern methods of germ prevention or suffice with water, and does using potash instead of modern soap bring greater reward by following his Sunnah?
Is the sweat of a disbeliever who feeds on impure things and does not guard against them impure, by analogy with the sweat of animals that feed on filth?
Is it permissible for a woman to pray in an abaya whose purity is doubted, for fear of missing the prayer time?
Do clean clothes become impure when washed with clothes stained with madhy (pre-seminal fluid), taking into account the difference in fatwas regarding whether a small amount of madhy renders water impure, and must those clothes be washed again?
Is it obligatory to perform ablution (wudu') if rabbit blood gets on the hand, or is it sufficient to wash off the blood? And is it permissible to skin a rabbit while it is in the throes of death to facilitate its skinning?
What is the evidence from the Sunnah regarding the impurity of madhi (pre-seminal fluid) if it gets on clothes, the impurity of urine even if it dries, and that prayer performed while having them on is invalid?