Why Muslims Avoid Bones After the Restroom

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Alhamdulillah. Continuing the chapters regarding the etiquates of relieving oneself. Continuing where we left off yesterday morning, which is that the author tells us that it is permissible for a person to clean himself after using the restroom, after relieving oneself using water or using stones or using anything of similar properties, Right? Meaning if we boil it down, anything that is wet that cleans or anything that is dry that cleans, right? And the author mentions narrations that bolster this statement. And that is that often times we have narrations where the prophet sallall.aii wasallam would go to relieve himself and he would have his servants carry water for him if it was available. But often times, especially if they were traveling, he would use or tell them to gather for him something that is dry stones or the likes. Heat. Heat. We have narrates that the messenger of Allah said, "If any of you goes to relieve himself, then he is to take with him three stones and purify and wipe himself with said stones, for they will suffice Now the next thing that the author tells us is that it is not permissible to use any less than three. It is not permissible to use less than three. And it is permissible to use as many as necessary but no less than three. Heat. Heat.

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He narrates to us that it's it's mentioned that someone said in other words of this narration it was a Jewish man who said to him your prophet has taugh taught you all everything to the finest details of your lives even how to relieve yourselves and he said that is and some man responded correct He prohibited us from facing or turning our backs to the when we are urinating or defecating. And he taught us that and he prohibited us from using our right hands when wiping or cleaning ourselves. And he further prohibited us from wiping ourselves with any less than three stones or rocks. And he prohibited us as well from using manure, dried manure, dried droppings, right? or bones to clean ourselves. So, especially camels, especially camels, but other animals as well, such as you know, cows or bulls or horses, right? Or even mules, donkeys. They have a rather large droppings, right? And it hardens and when it gets hard, person could pick it up and presumably use it to wipe himself. But the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam prohibited using the droppings of animals even if those droppings are pure in themselves. Horse droppings are pure, right? They're not nudges. Camel droppings are not nudges. He prohibited from using those droppings, those dried droppings to wipe ourselves and also bones. You know, you're out in the desert, especially on a beaten path, a path well taken, well treaded. the paths in and out of cities and so forth, you're going to find lots of droppings. You're going to find lots of animal bones either from people eating or from animals dying and and you know becoming bones. And so these things are prohibited to use for cleaning oneself after using the restroom after relieving yourself. Why is that? Well, in this narration, it's not mentioned. But in Muslim, the prophet teaches us He teaches us that this dried manure and these bones they are used as food by your counterparts from amongst the jin and their animals, the jin's animals. So the jin somehow eat and feed their animals bones and animal droppings. So the animals are eating the animal droppings and the gin themselves are eating or nourishing themselves from the bones. In another narration also in Muslim, the prophet tells us that he made permissible for the jin. He made permissible for the jin to eat and nourish themselves with any bone of any of any animal whom Allah's name was mentioned upon upon slaughtering. So just we have this for our meat, the Muslim from amongst the jin have this rule for the bones. Now a person may say well how does that work? Hello. I I don't know how this works. I would have to have lived with the gym and observe their eating habits in order to know how this works. Do they deplete these bones in some you know in some u quantifiable way? The jin themselves are hidden from us. how much more so the way that they eat or the way that they, you know, what kind of animals they use. Also, we see in this narration that the jin have some kind of animals that are also hidden from us that we don't see. And so there is an entire dimension of Jin and entire civilizations of Jin existing right next to us in the same places in the same times. Yet we can't see them. They can see us. This is how Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made us. The human being is primary in this junction or in this leg of the world's history. Before the creation of Adam, the jin were primary. They were the only intelligent you know free world creatures living on the earth and residing here. However, they failed. They failed very seriously to the point that they were all but eradicated and made as secondary to the existence of humanity here on this earth. It's the human beings era. It's the epic of humanity at this point. So while they do live here, they live in a dimension in a way that they are veiled from us. we cannot see them. furthermore, if we knew if we knew and I had some kind of knowledge of how the jin eat bones and how they what kind of animals they ride and so forth, would this in any way enhance our relationship with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? this kind of knowledge, knowledge of the exact comingings and goings of the lifestyle of the gin. Of course not. This is something that is largely unnecessary for us to know what we need to know about the jin that affects our existence or affects our relationship with Allah. we've been told of. Other than that, it is not something to dwell upon. However, if you wanted to read a book on this topic, the scholars have compiled books specifically on all matters having to do with the jin. And a contemporary book that was praised by the scholars of Islam is a book written by was a Jordanian scholar in the ' 70s ' 80s and '9s and he wrote a few books on the topic. I don't know Muhammad.