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Fatwa #471375 February 2021Saudi Arabia

Doubt regarding purity

Question

Assalamualaikum. Sheikh, please read the entire message as I have described my situation in very detail.


Madhi was released in my clothes due to excitement and then after a while even mani got released. So now my clothes has madhi and mani together. And then i had to take the ghusl so i went to the washroom. I removed my impure clothes and put them in the washing machine that had dirty but pure clothes, and i put the dirty but pure clothes that are below (in the washing machine) above the impure clothes (in the washing machine). While putting the impure clothes in the washing machine, i felt that my impure clothes and my impure hand touched the washing machine so i put some water on the washing machine using the hand shower. While putting water on the washing machine, some water fell into the machine and the clothes inside the washing machine got wet. I kept them as it is and closed the lid of the washing machine and took the ghusl. After around 4 to 5 days my mom had to use the washing machine to wash the clothes.  So she took all the clothes of the washing machine ( pure and impure) outside and kept them outside of the washroom to sort them into white clothes and colored clothes etc. And the place where she kept the clothes for sorting is a pathway to different rooms. Everyone walks over those clothes. And even after using the washroom, when u do wudhu and u come out of the washroom u will step on these clothes. And as the clothes were in large quantity it took around 2 to 3 days to wash all the clothes. So for around 2 to 3 days the pure and impure clothes were placed on the pathway outside the washroom. 

So now i am having doubts that the impurity has spread everywhere in the rooms, the tiles on which the clothes were kept, the walls where the clothes touched, the door of the washroom, where the clothes got touched, the washing machine, my family members legs and their clothes, my mom's hands as she was the one to take all the clothes out , and there are some towels hanging on the wall just above where the clothes were placed  and sometimes the towels fell on to the mixture of pure and impure clothes, and as everyone walked over the mixture of pure and impure clothes, they might have taken the impurities all over the house, etc. Basically I am having doubts that the impurity has spread but I don't know until where. Also, I am not sure if it has spread or not and I don't know how to confirm if the impurity has spread or not. Even if i check for the signs of impurity, i don't know which all places I should look for the signs of impurity.

What do i do in this situation? Do I wash the areas where the clothes touched? Or do i consider everything to be pure ? Is it ok to keep the clothes like this on the pathway for sorting? I am very much troubled by this doubts. Plz help me. Please answer in detail. I kindly request you to read everything in detail and also read all my doubts in detail and clear everything.

Jazakallahu khair.


Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

As a general principle, Najaasah will only transfer when the effects of Najaasah are seen on the item that comes into contact with it and only the part which touches the Najaasah will become impure.

Similarly, if a person touches a cloth that has Najaasah on it, his hand will not become impure unless the Najaasah itself was touched.   

In addition, there is only doubt as to the impurity of the items mentioned. Therefore, the items in reference will remain pure until one has complete certainty that they are impure.

Whenever you are unaware or doubtful on the purity of any item, then as a precautionary measure you should wash that item. However, you should also avoid having unnecessary doubts. Rasullullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said:

عَنْ أُبَىِّ بْنِ كَعْبٍ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ "‏إِنَّ لِلْوُضُوءِ شَيْطَانًا يُقَالُ لَهُ الْوَلْهَانُ فَاتَّقُوا وَسْوَاسَ الْمَاءِ" (جامع الترمذي-۵۷)

Ubayy bin Ka'b narrated that: The Prophet (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) said: "Indeed there is a Shaitan for Wudu' who is called "Al-Walahan." So beware of having misgivings about water." (Tirmidhi-57)

From the above Hadith, we ascertain that Shaytaan tries to cause unnecessary doubts in a person’s mind. One should not pay heed to these whisperings of Shaytaan.

And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best

Mudassir Benish

Student - Darul Iftaa
U.S.A

Checked and Approved by,
Mufti Ebrahim Desai.

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