Combining the Eighth Wash with the Seven and the Wisdom of the Earth
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, I am confused about how to reconcile the narration of the eighth wash with the narration of the seven washes, and that the first of them is with earth. How are they reconciled?
The Shaykh:
He acts on the basis that he has a choice: if he wishes, he does it in the first wash; if he wishes, in one of them; and if he wishes, after the seventh. He has a choice in this. The important thing is that the earth must be used. The wisdom, and Allah knows best, is to combine the two purifiers, water and earth, in removing the impurity of the dog, as if it were a severe impurity. Some people today come from a medical perspective and say that it has been established that when a dog licks something, small worms spread from it, and this small worm is not removed except by earth, from a medical perspective, and Allah knows best.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to keep a dog as in the story of the People of the Cave?
The Shaykh:
They call them germs. They say they are germs from the dog's bite that are not removed except by earth. Allah knows best about this reasoning, but they said this. This is counted among what they consider to be the scientific miracles in the Sunnah.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, I am confused about how to reconcile the narration of the eighth wash with the narration of the seven washes, and that the first of them is with earth. How are they reconciled?
The Shaykh:
He acts on the basis that he has a choice: if he wishes, he does it in the first wash; if he wishes, in one of them; and if he wishes, after the seventh. He has a choice in this. The important thing is that the earth must be used. The wisdom, and Allah knows best, is to combine the two purifiers, water and earth, in removing the impurity of the dog, as if it were a severe impurity. Some people today come from a medical perspective and say that it has been established that when a dog licks something, small worms spread from it, and this small worm is not removed except by earth, from a medical perspective, and Allah knows best.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is it permissible to keep a dog as in the story of the People of the Cave?
The Shaykh:
They call them germs. They say they are germs from the dog's bite that are not removed except by earth. Allah knows best about this reasoning, but they said this. This is counted among what they consider to be the scientific miracles in the Sunnah.
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