Watering crops with sewage water
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Question:
What is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, regarding one who waters his farm with sewage water?
Answer:
Because the best view is that sewage is ritually impure, it is not permissible to water farms with what is ritually impure. However, if it is treated and the signs of impurity—smell, color, and taste—disappear, it becomes pure water. It is then permissible to water crops with it, provided it has been treated and the signs of impurity have been removed from it. The most cautious course is to avoid it, because one cannot be certain that no trace of impurity remains. But this is on the assumption that it is free from impurity, on the assumption that it has been cleansed of it, even though one is not being scrupulous, because the default ruling is that impurity remains.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
What is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, regarding one who waters his farm with sewage water?
Answer:
Because the best view is that sewage is ritually impure, it is not permissible to water farms with what is ritually impure. However, if it is treated and the signs of impurity—smell, color, and taste—disappear, it becomes pure water. It is then permissible to water crops with it, provided it has been treated and the signs of impurity have been removed from it. The most cautious course is to avoid it, because one cannot be certain that no trace of impurity remains. But this is on the assumption that it is free from impurity, on the assumption that it has been cleansed of it, even though one is not being scrupulous, because the default ruling is that impurity remains.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، باب قول الله تعالى: {حَتَّى إِذَا فُزِّعَ عَنْ قُلُوبِهِمْ — youtube.com (52:55)
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