Impurities

Q: Could you please tell me if there is any mistake in my knowledge?

1. All kind of women discharges break wudu

2. You can make new wudu for new salah even before the time for this salah starts having all kind of discharges currently (usual, cold, infection, unknown) except if after 10 days of haidh you are still bleeding (in this case wudu to be done after salah time starts)

3. If during normal days you have reddish or brownish discharges (as during haidh) you still can make new wudu even before salah time starts as it is not the continuation of ones haidh.

4. If you have a spot of discharge on your clothes, should it be always washed away or depending on the size you can still make salah in these clothes? Could you please explain the size comparing it to something?

5. Does urine drops have the same ruling as in 4?

6. If any kind of najasa is dry and I touched it, do I become napaak and have to wash my hands or clothes if I touched it by clothes? Example, if someone didn’t wash hands after touching urine, hands dried and then this person touched me, do I have to go and wash what he touched? The same for all kind of najasa (discharges, blood, semen, etc) – should we wash our skin or clothes touching them when they are dry?

Q: When the bucher cuts the meat, is the blood found on the meat paak or napaak?

Q: I read here that wudu must be done in a way that water flows on the parts of the body we wash. I make my wudu in the toilet that is used by non-Muslims that have incontinence and use pieces of clothing to secure their underwear from urine. They use these clothes in a mutual sink. Before wudu I wash toilet sit, try to wash floor every time I see strange drops there, but I don’t wash think, I hope when they wash those clothes, the contamination of urine that occurs is then being washed away with water. However I still doubt that sink, but cant spend so much time every time to wash it too, what I do is, I use a dipper for my wudu. I put a hand inside and then lift it up with some water in my arms, let that water flor on my hand till elbow, this doesn’t happen till the elbow as water isn’t enough and I just help with another hand, I take some water and kind of wipe my hands with it. I try not to splash too much water on a sink to avoid drops on my clothes. Is it ok in shaa Allah?

Q: I am the only Muslim at home and I eat what I separately cook (halaal meat, etc). My non-Muslim family cooks meat I have no information about, they also eat salami that contains pork, etc. When the cook meat splashes of fat can fall on kitchen appliances (kettle, oven itself, etc). But what bothers me the most is that it splashes also on a kitchen towel, because it hangs on an oven hand. They can also touch this towel after touching meat or other haram products and then they use the same towel to dry dishes after washing them. When I use kitchen appliances I wash them 3 times under the water as I was told. Now I have some questions to you. Please don’t answer any of questions out of pity. JazakAllahu khairan

1. Do I need to wash dishes before using them 3 times? Is holding them under the water for a while enough or a hand must be used to wash them 3 times?

2. If I know my mother cooked some soup or dish with no meat and haram ingredients, can I eat it too knowing that she didn’t wash anything 3 times as I do or I have to make myself something simple, like boil pasta, fried egg, etc? Hunger is not a problem for me, just want to make sure all is halal in shaa Allah.

3. As in 2., if there is nothing else except bread to eat, can I eat that food? Eating just bread is no problem for me, just want to make sure I am not overacting and not making life difficult for nothing. And if there is no bread as an option?

4. If I see how my family cuts salami and then with the same hands touch bread, the box where we keep the bread or other objects, a) can I eat that bread too afterwards? Obviously they touched it and cut a piece for themselves, but what about the rest, is it contaminated for me now? B) do I have to always wash my hands after touching objects that I saw them touching with najasa hands? If yes, then should soap be used always or if I feel that the fat is being washed away with just water will it be enough in shaa Allah?

5. If I feel no fat on the object, but it’s an object from my suspicious list of objects they touch every day, is water enough or soap must be used?

6. If there is nothing else for me to eat and I know that this particular dish is cooked with products that are A) suspicious or B) clearly having some ingredients haram (like alcohol or animal fat), am I allowed to eat it or better to stay hungry? Is haram allowed only when you are dying from hunger or also when there is nothing else to eat too? Please answer for A and B..

7. Soon I will leave my job in shaa Allah due to mixing with men and will have to eat what is bought on my family’s money, does it mean I have to avoid suspicious dishes (with no meat) and cook pasta or eggs, for myself all the time? I don’t want my family to say that I use products when there is a dish to eat and that Islam makes me do strange things (for their understanding)

8. If I wash dishes that were used to cook haram meat, and splashes of water mixed with fat and liquid soap fall on my clothes, should I change it for salah, should I wash it under the flush (water jet) or rubbing a place 3 times with wet hands is sufficient in shaa Allah?

Q: I have a western style toilet and one day after urinating and defecating in it, I flushed it. However, because there was a lot of tissue in the bowl, the toilet became blocked and the bowl filled up with water after flushing. I put my arm in this water to try and unblock it. As far as I can remember, the water looked clean. One or two tissues with feces stuck on them remained in the water, however. But as I mentioned, I don't think the toilet water had its characteristics changed. Did my arm become najis when it was immersed in this water? Because I'm unsure that the characteristics of the water were changed after flushing, do I have to assume it was najis as the water was definitely filthy prior to flushing? Please put my heart at ease as I'm worried najasah has been spread.

Q: I used to eat haraam meat astaghfirullah. The najis meat was mixed with najis meat sauce and came into contact with plates, glasses and cutlery, therefore making them najis too. I cannot remember if I cleaned the plates/glasses/cutlery afterwards. However, I don't think they would have been left unwashed because plates glasses and cutlery are regularly washed in my house, especially by my mother. Additionally, it's been around 3-4 months since the plates/glasses/cutlery came in contact with najis (because I've stopped eating haram meat alhamdulillah) and in that time many of them have been used and washed several times by people in my house. Please bear in mind that I have many plates, glasses & cutlery in my house, and I cannot be sure which exact ones came in contact with the najis food. Do I assume them all now to be tahir, or najis? Will najis transfer on my hands and mouth through wetness, or if I eat wet food like curry off them? Please don't say "if there are no traces assume purity" because I've already come into contact with these items through wetness or eaten things like curry off them without checking for traces of impurity beforehand. And after eating wet food off the plates, my spit came into contact with some of my clothes. Additionally, what I may perceive to be traces of the haram meat could be remains from the halal meat cooked by my mother.

Q: I have a problem with my bladder. The bladder keeps leaking urine into my private organ. It doesn't come out unless I touch my private organ or if something else touches it like tissue or my underpants. At the moment when I go to the toilet to urinate, I take off the tissue that is around my private organ and throw it away down the toilet then I urinate then I wait a few minutes then I squeeze my private organ a few times then I get some tissue and wipe the tip of my private organ to get rid of any wetness then I wash my private organ a few times then I wait a few minutes for my private organ to dry then I wrap tissue round it then I do wudhu and pray namaz. After I wash my private organ when I'm still sitting on the toilet seat or when I'm getting up or when I'm washing my back impurity then what if my private organ touches the toilet seat or the inner sides of my legs, I don't know if something will come out probably. I just want to know if what I'm doing is right and will my namaz count, if not then what shall I do.

Q: I was going through a bad situation where I was having trouble controlling my bladder and with waswasas, this resulted in me urinating myself a bit and also rushing to the toilet resulting in urine getting on my body and on my clothes and on the floor and also sometimes sitting on napaak toilet seats and this resulted in a lot of waswasas, but now I have got medical help things are better but when I was going through the bad situation I either knowingly or unknowingly made things napaak without thinking. I would have touched doors or walls without thinking and also the clothes that I was wearing which were napaak will have touched things whilst I was walking or I may have sat on things or the floor whilst I was napaak or walked whilst my feet were napaak. The thing is I can't really remember what is napaak and what isn't or where did I sit or what did I touch and those things that I do remember I'm not really sure what to do about it and some of it is in public places like the musjid, I always tried my best thinking things over and over again and I have a lot of doubts about what I made napaak so what shall I do?

Q: Will a person’s clothes become napaak (impure) if a breastfeeding child vomits breast milk on it?

Q: Is discharge (as for females) najaasat? If yes, then is discharge and mani the same thing?