Seven Types of Najasa: What Makes Something Ritually Unclean?

Who can remember how many types of najasa we have listed so far with the author? Seven? Okay, what are they? One and two is human waste. So, human feces and urine. Three and four al-madhi wal-wadi. So, al-madhi is pre-ejaculate. And al-wadi is that which comes out or seeps out, if you will, or oozes out. It's kind of almost a pus after a person urinates. Okay, number five. Very good. The waste and the entirety basically of an animal, any animal which is not permissible to eat. Any animal which is otherwise haram to eat. Tayyib, number six. Menstrual and postpartum blood. Yes, correct. And we understand from this menstrual and postpartum blood Notice the detail here. This means that regular blood, person cuts himself, gets some blood on him. Is this considered to be a type of najasa or no? No. Menstrual blood, postpartum blood, blood that comes from the private parts. This is very different than blood that comes from a cut or what have you. Tayyib, the seventh, which is what we mentioned yesterday. Lu'ab al-kalb. So, the saliva of a dog.

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We said that not just the saliva of a dog, but everything from a dog. So, the urine, the feces, blood. And this also goes for another type of animal which is in this category. A pig. Swine. The correct opinion is that al al al-khinzir ya'khudhu hadha al-hukm, hukm lu'ab al-kalb. Bal huwa aghladhu fi hukmihi min lu'ab al-kalb. Li'annahu al-hayawan al-wahid alladhi dhakarahu.

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Infiradin fi al-tahrim.

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Khassasa al-khinzir ma' annahu.

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And final type of najasa that the author mentions here is al mayta. Al mayta, a dead animal. A dead carcass. Now, how does this differ from an animal which is impermissible to eat? Well, an animal that is impermissible to eat, a bear, a lion, you know, something that. This animal is you know, its waste and its blood and its saliva is all considered to be filthy while it's alive or dead. Al mayta is an animal that is otherwise permissible to eat, but it has not been slaughtered properly. An animal that is otherwise permissible to eat, but it has not been slaughtered properly. So, the carcass of a sheep, the carcass of a goat or camel or a cow that just died, it got hit by a car, right? Whatever it is. This has died, but it does not been slaughtered properly. Therefore, it is referred to in the Quran as al mayta, a dead animal, right? And this goes for any animal that was slaughtered incorrectly or slaughtered by other than a Muslim, Christian, or Jew. So, we have two elements here. One is the way that it is slaughtered. Two is the one who does the slaughtering. Right? So, these two are mentioned in two different verses in the Quoran.

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All right. So, we have one verse in Surat al-Ma'idah. It's the fourth verse. or excuse me, it's the third verse of Surat al-Ma'idah. In which Allah lists the various types of impermissible animals to eat which have died in an improper way. They've been slaughtered or killed improperly. So, he mentions.

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The dead animal and blood and lahm al-khinzir the flesh of swine and that which has been slaughtered for other than Allah. If an animal has been slaughtered for other than Allah, it's been slaughtered for an idol, it's been slaughtered in a ritual, even if it is permissible to eat, a goat, a sheep, a cow, it is considered to be filthy. lesson. Right? And likewise, even if a Muslim were to say bismillah, even if someone were to come and slaughter and say bismillah, but he slaughtered it for other than Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in a ritual for other than Allah, then this meat is considered what? This is considered a mata, dead animal. And this is a type of shirk, shirk akbar mukhrij min millat al-Islam. Slaughtering for other than Allah is a type of major shirk, which will take a person out of the fold of Islam wal iyadhu billah. A person may say, "Well, how could that happen? Do Muslims do that? do Muslims Could that happen that a Muslim slaughters for other than Allah?" Yes, absolutely. Superstitions. Where I come from, they have a custom that if you build a house, right? You build a new house, and just on the day that you finish the house and you're going to start living in it, they slaughter at the door. This slaughtering, they say bismillah. They slaughter at the door, at the doorway. What is this for? For the jinn.

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So that the jinn will leave them alone. Or so that it will repel evil eye. Or so that the shayatin will leave them alone. They slaughter and they say bismillah, Muslims. Right? And then they put the knife down, they go make salat al-asr. This is major shirk. Very serious, major shirk. It's a type of ignorance that we have. Right? a person is having some problems in his home. He feels like there are some jinn or shayatin or some magic that is done. They pick up the phone, they call overseas. Well, we know, you know, my his mom's, aunts, cousins, sister knows this guy that is a a wali right overseas. He's a wali. They They usually go to his grave and they you know, go to the grave and make dua there and do all kinds of things, but if you slaughter you know, say bismillah, but you slaughter with the intention for that this is for this wali right? Overseas to to protect us or ward off these demons. So, they tell you, "Yeah, take take a a sheep and it has to be this weight and this size and it has to look this and look that." And then they slaughter it at their house. Right? This is a type of major shirk. This happens all the time. All the time. This is common commonplace in many places. Why? In Muslim countries, Muslim lands. Why does this happen? Ignorance. Ibn al-Qayyim says, "Wal jahlu da'un qatilun." He says that ignorance is a deadly disease. Deadly. And then people do things and then they say, "Well, I didn't know." You didn't know that it is haram to worship other than Allah? That's what slaughtering is, is it not? Akhrajal Bukhari Akhrajal Imam Muslim fi sahihi min hadithi Ali ibn Abi Talib.

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Allah.".

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Said Allah's curse is upon the one who slaughters for other than Allah. And they have other slaughtering rituals, Muslims. Right? So, for instance, one of the rituals in many Muslim countries where tribes are a big thing, if they hear that a tribe leader is coming to visit or a president or what have you, they will line up the sheep or the camels or the cows, and as he arrives to the village and comes in, they will all slaughter as he enters and the blood is there at his feet. And then they leave these carcasses. This is a type of shirk, major shirk. Right? These types of slaughtering, this will make this animal what? It has the ruling not only was this shirk and not only is this a possible invalidator of a person's Islam, but also this is making this animal into a mata. This animal is now a dead animal. It has the ruling of a mata. It's eating it is haram, its flesh is haram, it is considered to be filthy. Right? Now, and so, the dead animal is considered to be the eighth type of najasa that is mentioned here in this list.

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Right? So, the definition of a dead animal here, he says, it is whatever has been whatever dies in spite of itself without being slaughtered before it's official death. A theca, so let's say there's a shepherd, right? And this shepherd, one of his sheep falls off the mountain, hits the bottom, or a wolf takes one of the sheep. And so, the shepherd runs after it and runs the wolf off, and the sheep is there. It's bleeding out, it's dying, but the sheep is still alive. It's going to die for sure. It's been mortally wounded, but it's still kicking, it's still moving. So, the person takes his knife and he slaughters it. This is called a theca. So, he caught it. Person is driving down the road, they hit a deer, right? The deer is now mortally wounded. It's going to die. So, they grab a a knife and they say bismillah and slaughter the deer at the last moments before the deer is fully dead and they butcher it at that moment. This is called a vika. This now has been caught. It's been slaughtered properly by a Muslim or by a Christian or by a Jew. Right? So, we have the way that it is slaughtered and then we have who is doing the slaughtering. When these two come together properly, the meat is halal. When one of these two is missing, the meat is haram. Now. Masala subhanahu.

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Juddihi an yufaqqihana fi dinina wa an yu'allimana min huma jahilna wa an yubarika lana fil Qur'anil Azim wa an yanfa'ana bima fihi minal.

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