Is it permissible to use tissues for cleaning oneself after relieving oneself?
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The questioner : twenty-six: Is it permissible to use tissues for cleaning oneself after relieving oneself?
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, it is permissible to use paper for cleaning oneself after relieving oneself. Yes. And there is no harm in it. Because the purpose of cleaning oneself is to remove the traces of impurity. Whether that is done with paper, or with cloth, or with earth, or with stones, or with smooth stones.
However, it is not permissible for a person to clean himself with what the Lawgiver has prohibited. For example, bones and dung. Do you know why? Because bones are the food of our brothers, the jinn. If the animal was slaughtered according to the Islamic method, and if it was not slaughtered according to the Islamic method, it is impure, and the impure does not purify. As for dung, if it is impure, it is impure and does not purify. And if it is pure, it is the food of the beasts of the jinn.
Because the jinn who came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and believed in him, he gave them hospitality that will not cease until the Day of Resurrection. What is the hospitality? The answer is:Sahih Muslim 450a. You will find it .
These bones that you see in the markets, they are white bones, clean, but they are for the jinn. They are full of meat, the fullest they can be. How can that be when we do not see it? Yes.
We say this is among the matters of the unseen. Do you see the jinn on the earth? No, no. They are from the world of the unseen. But it is obligatory for us to believe in that. Likewise, these bones are on the mouths of their beasts.
And I ask you, O humans, can it be inferred from this hadith that you are better than the jinn? Can it be inferred from this hadith that you are better than the jinn? No, that is not understood. I see the evidence: the bones that are thrown on the earth are the leftovers of our food. They eat the leftovers of food. The dung that our camels throw out, is it not a leftover?
Did you understand? And there is no doubt that humans are better than the jinn. Because humans are from Adam, to whom the father of the jinn was commanded to prostrate. And did he not? Because Satan was commanded to prostrate to Adam, but he refused and became arrogant, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Isra 17:61] [Al-Kahf 18:50].
The Shaykh : Yes, yes, it is permissible to use paper for cleaning oneself after relieving oneself. Yes. And there is no harm in it. Because the purpose of cleaning oneself is to remove the traces of impurity. Whether that is done with paper, or with cloth, or with earth, or with stones, or with smooth stones.
However, it is not permissible for a person to clean himself with what the Lawgiver has prohibited. For example, bones and dung. Do you know why? Because bones are the food of our brothers, the jinn. If the animal was slaughtered according to the Islamic method, and if it was not slaughtered according to the Islamic method, it is impure, and the impure does not purify. As for dung, if it is impure, it is impure and does not purify. And if it is pure, it is the food of the beasts of the jinn.
Because the jinn who came to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and believed in him, he gave them hospitality that will not cease until the Day of Resurrection. What is the hospitality? The answer is:
Every bone on which the name of Allah is recited
قال لكم كل عظم ذكر اسم الله عليهAli.
علي.the fullest it can be of meat
أوفر ما يكون لحمةThese bones that you see in the markets, they are white bones, clean, but they are for the jinn. They are full of meat, the fullest they can be. How can that be when we do not see it? Yes.
We say this is among the matters of the unseen. Do you see the jinn on the earth? No, no. They are from the world of the unseen. But it is obligatory for us to believe in that. Likewise, these bones are on the mouths of their beasts.
And I ask you, O humans, can it be inferred from this hadith that you are better than the jinn? Can it be inferred from this hadith that you are better than the jinn? No, that is not understood. I see the evidence: the bones that are thrown on the earth are the leftovers of our food. They eat the leftovers of food. The dung that our camels throw out, is it not a leftover?
Did you understand? And there is no doubt that humans are better than the jinn. Because humans are from Adam, to whom the father of the jinn was commanded to prostrate. And did he not? Because Satan was commanded to prostrate to Adam, but he refused and became arrogant, as Allah the Exalted said:
and they prostrated, except for Iblees
فَسَجَدُوا إِلَّا إِبْلِيسَHe was of the jinn and departed from the command of his Lord. Then will you take him and his descendants as allies other than Me while they are enemies to you?
كَانَ مِنَ الْجِنِّ فَفَسَقَ عَنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّهِ أَفَتَتَّخِذُونَهُ وَذُرِّيَّتَهُ أَوْلِيَاءَ مِن دُونِي وَهُمْ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ
Source
دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام لعام 1406هـ - 4 — binothaimeen.net (37:29)
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