Is impurity inside the body or outside it?
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The questioner : I was going to ask you once, our master,The Shaykh : about matters concerning the secretions that come out of human beings. Take urine, for example, may Allah love you. Why is urine impure, when a person does not urinate all of it? A portion remains in the bladder, and the bladder is part of the body, correct?
The Shaykh: Correct.
The questioner : So is it impure, while the intestines next to it are not impure?
The Shaykh : Everything inside the human body, even if it is from filth, does not take the ruling of impurity until it exits the body.
The questioner : The reason.
The Shaykh : The reason? It is the ruling of the Wise Lawgiver; because among the principles of the Shari'ah is the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:220] The interpretation of this verse is in the saying of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Baqarah 2:286] If it were ruled that the impurities in our stomachs and bladders must be removed, that would be a burden that is not bearable. Our Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is more generous and merciful to His servants than to burden them with what they cannot bear. [Al-Baqarah 2:286] But when this filthy, impure thing becomes within a person's reach to remove it, he is obligated to remove it, especially since it harms his health. Because these impurities, as I believe from a medical standpoint, command cleanliness. But the Shari'ah preceded the doctors with its rulings. Therefore, we follow the Shari'ah, and Muslim doctors also follow the Shari'ah.
The questioner : The doctor is the scholar; the information he knows must be scientifically correct and religiously correct.
The Shaykh : Therefore, I combined the Shari'ah and medicine for you in understanding the prohibition of smoking.
The questioner : Yes, but what is the difference between urine and tears, for example? The salts are present in both.
The Shaykh : But they are not the same; they are not the same by observation. That is, a thing may be one from a medical or what we call chemical standpoint, and I do not believe this is the case by nature. But reality testifies that a tear is not urine. Sometimes a person cries and some tears drip into his mouth. Do you think the taste he finds in the tear is like what he finds in blood or urine? They are not equal, for example. This difference alone is sufficient from a logical standpoint. Otherwise, we have no right to judge the Wise Lawgiver, who is the Lord of the worlds. We might say, for example, why did He make the Fajr prayer two rak'ahs, the Maghrib prayer three rak'ahs, and the remaining prayers four, four, four? And why did He make some of them secret and some loud, and some a combination of loud and secret? We say the Lord of the worlds burdens His servants with what He wills. It is not expected that every human being can encompass all things with knowledge, right or wrong?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And I think you agree with me in what the Europeans themselves say: "We did not increase in knowledge by a day but we increased in knowledge of our ignorance." This is a scientific fact.
The Shaykh: Correct.
The questioner : So is it impure, while the intestines next to it are not impure?
The Shaykh : Everything inside the human body, even if it is from filth, does not take the ruling of impurity until it exits the body.
The questioner : The reason.
The Shaykh : The reason? It is the ruling of the Wise Lawgiver; because among the principles of the Shari'ah is the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And if Allah had willed, He could have put you in difficulty
ولو شاء الله لأعنتكمAllah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity
لا يكلف الله نفسًا إلا وسعهاAllah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity
لا يكلف الله نفسًا إلا وسعهاThe questioner : The doctor is the scholar; the information he knows must be scientifically correct and religiously correct.
The Shaykh : Therefore, I combined the Shari'ah and medicine for you in understanding the prohibition of smoking.
The questioner : Yes, but what is the difference between urine and tears, for example? The salts are present in both.
The Shaykh : But they are not the same; they are not the same by observation. That is, a thing may be one from a medical or what we call chemical standpoint, and I do not believe this is the case by nature. But reality testifies that a tear is not urine. Sometimes a person cries and some tears drip into his mouth. Do you think the taste he finds in the tear is like what he finds in blood or urine? They are not equal, for example. This difference alone is sufficient from a logical standpoint. Otherwise, we have no right to judge the Wise Lawgiver, who is the Lord of the worlds. We might say, for example, why did He make the Fajr prayer two rak'ahs, the Maghrib prayer three rak'ahs, and the remaining prayers four, four, four? And why did He make some of them secret and some loud, and some a combination of loud and secret? We say the Lord of the worlds burdens His servants with what He wills. It is not expected that every human being can encompass all things with knowledge, right or wrong?
The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh : And I think you agree with me in what the Europeans themselves say: "We did not increase in knowledge by a day but we increased in knowledge of our ignorance." This is a scientific fact.
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