Tahaarat

Impurities on one's shoes

Q: Please can you help me with the following?

1. I was walking outside and there was an area which had a lot of stool from various birds, I tried my best to avoid it but am not certain if I avoided it completely, does this make the bottom of my shoes napaak?

2. If a non Muslim is eating a sandwich and I am not sure what the content of the sandwich is (i.e. if it contained something haram) and they subsequently touched me on my back, does this make my clothes and the seat my back subsequently leaned against napaak?

Is mucus or phlegm impure?

Q: Are any of the following regarded as impure in Shari'ah?

1. The mucus or phlegm that comes out of the nose or throat due to a cold, flu or sinus infection

2. The yellowish white mucus or phlegm that comes out of the nose or throat due to a cold, flu or sinus infection

3. The yellow or green colour mucus or phlegm that comes out of the nose or throat due to a cold, flu or sinus infection (could be pus).

Anal fistula

Q: I have a question that if one has an anal fistula (medical condition in which there is a connection between the lower part of the intestine and the skin) and there is a discharge from it which may be mucus, serous, pus or stool at times. It may be small in quantity and one may not even notice it.

1. Would the discharge break the wudhu and nullify the prayer

2. Sometimes I may not even know about the discharge, does one have to check before and after praying each time?

3. Sometime I need to do imamat, in that situation after salat should I ask the congregation to wait and check the discharge? It seems to prevent me from offering salat in congregation and constant fear of losing wudhu.

Cleaning thoroughly in istinja

Q: I passed stool and made istinja and I checked with tissue there was no impurity then i did wudhu and I felt there is some impurity but I did not clean it as I was not sure about it. I offered namaz in this condition and after namaaz I checked so there was impurity. Then I cleaned it off and I did wudhu and offered namaaz again. Now I am very worried that as I had offered naamaz with impurity so my Imaan lasts or not? Do I have to do ghusal? I recited Kalima shareef and made tauba but still I am so worried. Please guide.

Ghusal for a man who inserts his private part into another man

Q: 

1. When a man inserts his tip of penis in other man's anus, both should have fard ghusl right?

2. Is the ghusl fard even if when both had worn clothes? E.g. If one had worn pants and the other had also worn pants but the penis went inside the anus along with both pants. Is ghusl still fard?

3. Is the fard ghusl same as ghusl janabah?

Correct way of washing the hands in wudhu

Q: According to the Hanafi Math-hab I'd like to know the correct way of washing the hands upto the wrists. I teach in a maktab madrassah and we used to teach them to first wash the right hand including the wrist three times and then to wash the left hand including the wrist three times but we were told that that is incorrect and it has to be as follows:

To wash both hands including the wrists three times and the action has to be done in such a way that you would alternate e.g you would first wash the right hand then the left hand and then the right hand, so the right hand would end up getting washed twice and the left once.

Can you please advise on how it should be taught to the kids.

Wind problem

Q: I have digestive problems, one of them problem is if I don't empty my stomach, I get a lot of wind coming out. Now this created difficulty because wind can break the wudu. I was told if it constantly happens, then your wudhu wouldn't break so it that true? My problem is sometimes I get a lot of wind coming out, sometime I don't. I have illness in my stomach so am I excused person when wind breaks out my wudu wouldn't break?

Fluid coming out after ghusal

Q: I broke my ghusl yesterday and today before performing ghusl, I trimmed my pubic hair by applying shaving gel then fluid started coming out of my private part. I sat on the toilet seat for like 20 minutes squishing my private part to get all the fluid out, but it was continuously coming out. I got under the shower for 5 minutes and again went to the toilet seat to check if it was still coming out, there was a little of it but after squishing it twice, the fluid stopped coming out, I checked twice and there wasn't any fluid. I performed ghusl but I am not sure if that fluid came out during the performance of ghsul or not or afterwards. Do I need to perform ghusl again?

Note: I face a lot of waswasa during ghusl and it takes me about half and hour to perform ghusl! It's really hard for me so I just don't want to do it again!