Impurities

Lesson Four

REMOVAL OF IMPURITIES

LEGAL IMPURITY (HUKMI)

MINOR IMPURITY

  • NEEDS WUDHU

MAJOR IMPURITY

  • NEEDS GHUSL (BATHING)

ACTUAL IMPURITY

(HAQEEQI)

HEAVY FILTH

(GHALIZA)

FILTH (NAJAASAT) is something that is considered impure by the sharia’.

Actual Impurity (Haqeeqi Najaasat) may be heavy or light and relates to the:

  • Body
  • Clothes
  • Place of prayer (the parts of the body that touch the place of prayer).

TYPES

HEAVY FILTH (GHALIZA)

LIGHT FILTH (KHAFIFA)

EXAMPLES

  • Human waste: excretion/urine (including baby’s)
  • flowing blood/pus
  • blood from childbirth/menstruation
  • Wine
  • Excretion of animals that can be eaten
  • Waste (excretion, urine & saliva) of animals that cannot be eaten (that are predatory like fox or wolf)
  • meat of a dead animal
  • a mouthful vomit
  • Semen
  • Madhy (pre-sexual fluid) & Wadi (white drops following urination)
  • droppings of Halal birds that ‘do not fly high’ -like Ducks or swan
  • Urine of animals that can be eaten (also horses)
  • droppings of haram birds (such as falcon, hawk and eagle)

AMOUNT EXCUSED

Less than A dirham’s size (which is likened to a 50p coin), or weight:

  • Less than 5cm diameter for liquid – 50p rule
  • Less than 5g weight for solid

Less than ¼ of garment (part)/body (part):

  • E.g. a trouser leg, sleeve, collar
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