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Are my clothes considered clean, can I perform salaah with them?

· 28 Muharram 1440 AH1 min readFatwa 36146English

Question

Dear Brother,

Assalam-o-alikum,

Question:

I am a male. I wash my clothes when they get impure (mani) is spilled over them. I have observed that few of my clothings still have a mark (stain) remaining on them, although I wash and rinse them thrice manually and then wash them in the washing machine, which also wash it twice or thrice (not sure) and then rinse it too.

After the clothes are washed, I don't feel the stiffness of the impurity (mani) on the clothes but the stain (a mark of impurity) is visible on the clothes.

Are my clothes purified (paak) or na-paak (impure), if the stain is visible after I wash them throughly as described above?
Can I offer my Salah in those clothes on whom the stain is visible?

Looking forward to your guidance.

Jazakallah.

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, The Most Merciful.

As-salaamu `alaykum wa-ramatullahi wa-barakatuh.

In principle, when a cloth with an impurity is washed and squeezed three times it will be pure even if any stain of the impurity remains on it. The washing machine rinses the clothes many times during the washing procedure.

One may perform salaah in such clothes. [i]

And Allah Ta`ala Knows Best.

Hussein Muhammad.

Student Darul Iftaa

Arusha, Tanzania

Checked and Approved by:

Mufti Ebrahim Desai

References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

[i]

شرح مختصر الطحاوي للجصاص (1/ 359)

والنجاسة تشمل على عين وأثر، فأجاز عليه الصلاة والسلام الصلاة مع وجود الأثر عند زوال عينها

بدائع الصنائع في ترتيب الشرائع (1/ 88)

وَإِنْ كَانَتْ النَّجَاسَةُ مَرْئِيَّةً كَالدَّمِ وَنَحْوِهِ، فَطَهَارَتُهَا زَوَالُ عَيْنِهَا، وَلَا عِبْرَةَ فِيهِ بِالْعَدَدِ؛ لِأَنَّ النَّجَاسَةَ فِي الْعَيْنِ فَإِنْ زَالَتْ الْعَيْنُ زَالَتْ النَّجَاسَةُ،

Kitaabul Masa`il, Vol 1, Pg 120.

Fataawa Haqqaniyya, Vol 2, Pg 582.

Answered by
Hussein Muhammad
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
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