Which Animal Waste Breaks Your Wudu?

Continuing in al-wajiz in the book of purification. In the chapter regarding the various types of najasa, the types of filth as outlined by the Quran and Sunnah. , let's see if we can review. We've mentioned four thus far. The first two are urine and feces. Just urine and feces? Huh? What's that? No, we didn't say that. Hu- human human urine and feces, right? Human urine and fe- Okay, that's one and two. And three and four?

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Al mani. Al mani is pure. Huh? A- Al madhi. Al madhi. Wal wadhi. Okay, good. So, that's four of them. Number one and two. Human urine and feces. Three and four. Al madhi. Wal wadhi. Okay. So, we said there's there's three that sound that kind of rhyme, okay? Al mani. Wal madhi. Wal wadhi. Okay. Mani is what? With a noon, semen. And that is pure or filthy? Pure. Okay. Number two. Al Al madhi. And that is No, that's the other one. This is for arousal. Yes, this is pre-sperm or pre-semen. It comes out during arousal and it is it is signified as being or described or its signature is that it is transparent. It is it is clear, right? And it does not come out. It has its own features. This comes out during arousal, okay? And its ruling is that it is what? Pure or filthy? Filthy, okay. And then we have a wedy. And wedy is what? This is after urinating, yes. This is after urinating and it is described as being cloudy. Cloudy white cloudy, right? Not really white. many, which is semen, that is usually white. medy is clear. Wedy is cloudy, right? It comes out after urinating. And its ruling is pure or or najis? Najis, okay. And then you wash it, okay. Number five. The feces of an animal which is impermissible to eat. We could go as far as to say the feces and urine of the animal which is impermissible to eat. The feces and urine of the animal which is impermissible to eat. As a matter of fact, we could even expand this even more and we can say any part of the animal which is impermissible to eat which is a part of the animal. A part of the animal. The the words here are very important to be specific. Part of the animal. that does not include hair. Hair is not technically part of the animal. Hair in itself is is is dead. It doesn't have blood flowing through it, okay? Same thing with nails. Same thing with teeth. They do not have blood flowing through them. Contrary to bones, bones are a part of the animal. However, teeth, hair, nails, claws, right? These are not considered in Islamic law as being part of the animal. Which means that it is permissible to use any nail, tooth, or hair of any animal. You've seen brushes, for instance, that use boar boar hair. Boar's hair, right? Which is boar is a type of wild pig, but it has very very thick coarse hair on its back, right? Sometimes this is used in in hairbrushes or horse brushes or very coarse brushes. This is pure this is permissible. It's permissible to use. Why? Because it is not considered part of the animal. What do we mean when we say the word part? Meaning blood runs through it. The tabi'in rahimahullah the sahaba radiyallahu anhu, they did not consider these features of the animal to be part of the animal, meaning to be impure as the animal itself is impure, okay? But that we'll get to that later. The author will mention this in a few chapters. For our concern here is the feces, the urine, and really any of the fluids or meat that comes from an animal which is impermissible to eat. Which is which is inherently impermissible to eat. All right? So, we're speaking about a tiger, a lion, a panther, a dog, right? a cat, even a house cat. However, house cats are exempt from this for a reason we'll mention later. But, those wild animals which are impermissible to eat, all of their body is considered to be impure if it is not something that mixes with humans naturally.

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Abdullah ibn Mas'ud says the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam wished to relieve himself. And so, he told me, "Collect for me three stones to use for you know, to to clean himself." And so, I could only find two stones that were appropriate and one dried piece of you know, manure from a donkey, right? A donkey meaning a domestic donkey. Domestic donkey is haram to eat, okay? And so, I brought him the three and he threw away the the domestic donkey, the donkey's manure, and kept the two rocks and said, "It is a regis one. Regis one yani najis one. It is impure. It is considered filthy." so, the ruling here that is to be taken is that any animal which is impermissible to eat, inherently impermissible to eat, meaning there's no possible way to slaughter it in a way that makes it halal. It is haram any way you slice it, right? This animal, its urine and feces are considered to be a regis. It's considered to be najis. And along with that goes the sweat, the saliva, the blood, the pus, you know, anything that comes from this animal. And so, there are exceptions to that. And those exceptions have to do with how difficult it is for a person to reasonably protect himself from those kinds of things. So, for instance, a domestic donkey is haram to eat, right? Domestic donkey is haram to eat bil ijma. Okay, consensus-wise. Now, a domestic donkey is haram to eat. However, being that we use domestic donkeys for exactly what they sound, and that is domestic, right? We ride on them, we carry our stuff on them, we have them around. Okay? These are extremely common animals. How reasonable is it to expect someone to completely protect himself from sweat, saliva, urine, feces, especially when these things use the bathroom in the street. We can't stop them from doing that. How reasonable is it to protect your clothes entirely 100% from it? It's difficult. It's unreasonable. A house cat, we call a house cat, right? these things are important to humanity. As a matter of fact, house cats have a history of saving entire civilizations from collapse because of disease. Because house cats they take care of what? Pests that carry disease mice, rats, things that. They are considered to be one of the types of servants of human beings, as the prophet put it, sallallahu alayhi wasallam. Plus, they are pets for as long back as humans can remember, and they're real cute, and kids to play with them, and whatever else it is, right? And so how reasonable would it be to have cats around? I mean, imagine we're living back in, you know, 100 or 200 years ago, even here in America, even 50 years ago. Even 100 or 150 years ago when they came to Tucson to have it as a mining town, right? And it was a small little town, but this was the western frontier. And now we're living in in a little town or a little village. And we've got this desert around us. What is very dangerous for us. Scorpions, snakes, all these things which they are still dangerous, right? But things are a little bit more locked off. The city is much bigger now. But we still have these problems. Well, how do you sleep at night with these kinds of things? Cat Cats are a very big resource, huge resource for human beings, right? They're They're one of the kinds of animals that help us to you know, travel the world and and conquer areas and lands and and build towns and cities and stay safe and so forth. So, how reasonable would it be to not have a cat have its saliva get on anything in the house? It's very It's almost impossible, right? And this is why the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam gives us a leniency for things that we use and things that would essentially coexist with us. All right? a domestic donkey, like a house cat, like a hunting dog, right? The saliva of a hunting dog. Dog saliva is filthy. However, if it is taught and if it is a hunting dog, it's being used for hunting, then its saliva is not filthy. Right? Why is that? Cuz how am I going to have a dog hunt with me and grab stuff with its mouth and then you know, have to consider everything it catches to be filthy. I might as well just not have it. It would be easier than in that situation. So, these things are given an allowance in Islam, right? The prophet says with respect to the house cat in the house and the house cat he said it is not the cat is not filthy, meaning it's saliva. Right? Indeed, it is of the servants that Allah has given you. The servants. Right? Just we have human servants that help us, we also have animal servants that help us, and house cats are one of them. We call them house cats, domestic cats, right? And this has its own chapter as well. But, what did we learn today? We learned today that the fifth type of filth is the animal which is impermissible to eat. It is inherently filthy. It's urine and feces, it's saliva, it's fluids, unless it it is exempted because of common use. Unless it is exempted of common use. Second thing we learned is hair. Something that doesn't have blood flow through it on the animal. Hair, tooth, nail, claw, talon, these things are pure of any animal. Even if it is off of a pig. Even if it is off of a dog. It is considered to be what? Pure. Number three, we learned this issue of these domesticated animals and the leniency and their purity because of how difficult it would be to reasonably coexist with these animals and you know, everything becomes filthy over time if that were the case and that would be far too tedious for us to be able to practice.

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Is this your sign?