If the ground is ritually impure and one places a carpet on it and prays, is the prayer valid?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : I mean, if the ground is ritually impure and you put a carpet on it and pray...
The Shaykh : It is permissible.
The questioner : ...if the carpet is not...
The Shaykh : Because you would say, "I prayed on the carpet above a ritually impure mat," or is that not the case? When a ritually impure carpet is spread and a pure mat is placed on top of it, it is not said that one prayed on a ritually impure mat.
The questioner : The mat on top, even if it is thin... does not harm.
The Shaykh : Of course, it was...
The questioner : I mean, the name and the consideration belong to it.
The Shaykh : No... name and reality...
Another questioner: ...
The questioner : I mean, this is on top of that; the thin garment on top of the ritually impure mat is pure.
The Shaykh : ... .
The Shaykh : It is permissible.
The questioner : ...if the carpet is not...
The Shaykh : Because you would say, "I prayed on the carpet above a ritually impure mat," or is that not the case? When a ritually impure carpet is spread and a pure mat is placed on top of it, it is not said that one prayed on a ritually impure mat.
The questioner : The mat on top, even if it is thin... does not harm.
The Shaykh : Of course, it was...
The questioner : I mean, the name and the consideration belong to it.
The Shaykh : No... name and reality...
Another questioner: ...
The questioner : I mean, this is on top of that; the thin garment on top of the ritually impure mat is pure.
The Shaykh : ... .