The Shaykh’s remarks on the ruling regarding the transformation of impurity.
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The Shaykh: If it transforms into salt, for example, this salt becomes lawful, even if its origin was forbidden; because it has departed from its previous reality with which the ruling of prohibition was associated, and it has transformed into another reality, which is salt, so it takes on the ruling of salt in food... Thus, transformation—the transformation of a thing from one reality to another—is considered a purifier. So, if this kind of transformation occurs in this compound, which is soap, and one feels that it... has become something else; then at that point, it ceases to be soap whose use is forbidden, and chocolate ceases to be forbidden; because the fat in it has developed and taken on another reality. And conversely, the opposite of the opposite: if the chemist says the fat remains as it is and does not change, but rather, in the manner of the Jews, when Allah forbade them the fats, they took them and dissolved them so they took another form, but the chemical reality remains the same; then the ruling remains forbidden.
The questioner: Even if the proportion is small?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: Even if the proportion is...
The Shaykh: I did not say that even if the proportion is small. The first thing I answered was that the fact that the proportion is small does not justify this use, as long as the small amount is impure. But the important point in the matter is to know whether this has developed or transformed into another reality and another nature, or not? If the answer is affirmative—meaning it has developed—then at that point it becomes lawful, whether it is much or little; because we gave you the example of wine. Wine in a leather bag undergoes fermentation and becomes lawful. A carcass in the desert, the carcass of a beast, through natural factors such as the sun, winds, and rains, and the like, transforms into salt, so it takes on the ruling of salt, which is the answer...
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
The questioner: Even if the proportion is small?
The Shaykh : How?
The questioner: Even if the proportion is...
The Shaykh: I did not say that even if the proportion is small. The first thing I answered was that the fact that the proportion is small does not justify this use, as long as the small amount is impure. But the important point in the matter is to know whether this has developed or transformed into another reality and another nature, or not? If the answer is affirmative—meaning it has developed—then at that point it becomes lawful, whether it is much or little; because we gave you the example of wine. Wine in a leather bag undergoes fermentation and becomes lawful. A carcass in the desert, the carcass of a beast, through natural factors such as the sun, winds, and rains, and the like, transforms into salt, so it takes on the ruling of salt, which is the answer...
The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.
The Shaykh : And beware of that.
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