Is it true that the pig is impure in itself?
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Eid Abbasi : Yes, I want to ask whether... regarding the impurities of the pig, they rule that it is impure in itself. Is this correct?
The Shaykh : By the text of the Qur'an.
The questioner : It went... .
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : ... we say.
The questioner :[Al-Baqarah 2:173] .
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : There is nothing in it...[Al-Ma'idah 5:3] it was only forbidden, [Al-Ma'idah 5:3] ... .
The questioner : No, there is a verse where Ibn Hazm says.
Eid Abbasi : This...
The questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : No, yes... .
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : Ibn Hazm has a Zahirite... .
The questioner : ... no, it is not.
...
The Shaykh : 'Id 'Abassi : ... all the oil or the fat of the questioner... .
The questioner : If it is oil... .
...
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : If in front of him - for example - he licked it, he turned his head upside down.
The Shaykh : ... something we cannot be certain about.
The questioner : A hadith.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : No, like... the impurity of the pig in a text that mentions the prohibition, meaning the impurity of its very self.
The Shaykh : The verse...
Eid Abbasi : It is...[Al-Ma'idah 5:3].
The questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : Other than that, other than that in a verse.
The Shaykh : ... .
Eid Abbasi : No, that one is other than that.
The questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : And the flesh of the pig, for it is an abomination.
Eid Abbasi : A sinner.
The questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : An abomination, for it is an abomination; even Ibn Hazm says.
Eid Abbasi : Is it carried on this materiality?
The questioner: No.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : The material impurity?
The Shaykh: Was it?
The questioner : The flesh of the pig indicates that Ibn Hazm says the pig is not just its flesh that is impure, but the whole thing is impure; meaning, to escape his Zahirite position, he says: "for it," the pronoun refers not to the flesh of the pig, but to the pig itself; meaning, even he believes that.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : This is different from the dog; we do not say: the dog is impure, the dog.
The Shaykh : What do you say?
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : It is impure in its entirety.
The Shaykh : Yes, no, its saliva.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : Only its saliva.
The Shaykh : Yes.
Eid Abbasi : So is this more impure than it?
The Shaykh : 'Id 'Abassi : Of course, the pig is more severe.
Eid Abbasi : Meaning, I mentioned.
The Shaykh : 'Id 'Abassi : And the reason is that He - the Exalted - said:.
The Shaykh : By the text of the Qur'an
for it is an impurity
فَإِنَّهُ رِجْسٌThe questioner : It went... .
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : ... we say.
The questioner :
He has only forbidden to you dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine
إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُم الْمَيْتَةَ وَالدَّمَ وَلَحْمَ الْخِنْزِيرِEid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : There is nothing in it...
Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُProhibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah, and [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a head-long fall or by the goring of horns, and those from which a wild animal has eaten
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُ وَلَحْمُ الْخِنْزِيرِ وَمَا أُهِلَّ لِغَيْرِ اللَّهِ بِهِ وَالْمُنْخَنِقَةُ وَالْمَوْقُوذَةُ وَالْمُتَرَدِّيَةُ وَالنَّطِيحَةُ وَمَا أَكَلَ السَّبُعُThe questioner : No, there is a verse
for it is an impurity
فَإِنَّهُ رِجْسٌEid Abbasi : This...
The questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : No, yes... .
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : Ibn Hazm has a Zahirite... .
The questioner : ... no, it is not.
...
The Shaykh : 'Id 'Abassi : ... all the oil or the fat of the questioner... .
The questioner : If it is oil... .
...
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : If in front of him - for example - he licked it, he turned his head upside down.
The Shaykh : ... something we cannot be certain about.
The questioner : A hadith.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : No, like... the impurity of the pig in a text that mentions the prohibition, meaning the impurity of its very self.
The Shaykh : The verse...
Eid Abbasi : It is...
Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood
حُرِّمَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الْمَيْتَةُ وَالدَّمُThe questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : Other than that, other than that in a verse.
The Shaykh : ... .
Eid Abbasi : No, that one is other than that.
The questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : And the flesh of the pig, for it is an abomination.
Eid Abbasi : A sinner.
The questioner : 'Id 'Abassi : An abomination, for it is an abomination; even Ibn Hazm says.
Eid Abbasi : Is it carried on this materiality?
The questioner: No.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : The material impurity?
The Shaykh: Was it?
The questioner : The flesh of the pig indicates that Ibn Hazm says the pig is not just its flesh that is impure, but the whole thing is impure; meaning, to escape his Zahirite position, he says: "for it," the pronoun refers not to the flesh of the pig, but to the pig itself; meaning, even he believes that.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : This is different from the dog; we do not say: the dog is impure, the dog.
The Shaykh : What do you say?
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : It is impure in its entirety.
The Shaykh : Yes, no, its saliva.
Eid Abbasi : 'Id 'Abassi : Only its saliva.
The Shaykh : Yes.
Eid Abbasi : So is this more impure than it?
The Shaykh : 'Id 'Abassi : Of course, the pig is more severe.
Eid Abbasi : Meaning, I mentioned.
The Shaykh : 'Id 'Abassi : And the reason is that He - the Exalted - said:
for it is an impurity
فَإِنَّهُ رِجْسٌ
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