Is smoke ritually impure?

The Shaykh: Peace be upon you. I am surprised by this question; because if it is not with a pack, there are packs inside it; meaning the smell has become smoky. So in any case, I understand something from your question, and an answer is necessary. But I wanted to draw your attention to the fact that whether he carries a pack of cigarettes or not, there are packs, as we said. Yes.
The point is: It is not necessary that something being foul means it is ritually impure. Now I will tell you something you may find surprising: the forbidden wine, prohibited by the explicit text of the Qur'an, is not ritually impure in a material sense. By this I mean that if wine touches a person's garment and he prays, his prayer is valid; because the impurity of wine is a conceptual, legal impurity, not a real impurity. As He, the Exalted, said: , meaning: a conceptual impurity, meaning: impurity due to what is in themselves of shirk (associating partners with Allah), disbelief, and misguidance. But if they touch something, it does not become ritually impure, and so on. So the one who carries a pack in his pocket, his prayer is valid. This is haram (forbidden), but it is not ritually impure, and it is not necessary. This is a very important jurisprudential rule: it is not necessary that something being forbidden means it is ritually impure, and the converse is true: it is necessary that something being ritually impure means it is forbidden, not the other way around; it is not necessary that something being forbidden means it is ritually impure. For example, our Lord says: .
Are they ritually impure? They are not ritually impure!! Prohibition does not necessitate ritual impurity. Similarly, when the Messenger (peace be upon him) came out one day to his companions, with gold in one hand and silk in the other, he said: . So if a person carries, as I tell you, a gold ring; because this is forbidden in any case. But if he carries gold coins in his pocket; is his prayer invalid because he is carrying gold? We say: No; even if he is carrying a gold ring, and this is forbidden for him; his prayer is valid, like the one who prays and looks at a woman passing in front of him. This is a forbidden look, but the prayer is a valid prayer. So it is not necessary that something being forbidden means it is ritually impure. But if it is established that something is ritually impure, then it is established that it is forbidden; because the meaning of something being haram (forbidden) is that it is not permissible to approach it. So if it is ritually impure, it is not permissible to approach it. But if it is forbidden, it is not necessary that it be ritually impure. I think you have received the answer to your question?

The questioner: May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh: Okay; we return to Abu Sa'd.