His statement: (They were not sprinkling anything) — so were they sprinkling anything?
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The questioner : Does this not present a difficulty?
The Shaykh : No, it does not, because we say she enters the mosque after her feet have dried.
The questioner : What is meant by his statement: meaning that there is something they sprinkle...
The Shaykh : No, like the tracks of dogs, because the mosques at that time were paved with gravel, so if a dog passed by, it would necessarily leave a mark.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, the one who needs it. Someone might say: Since she urinates and then comes to the mosque, something of the soil contaminated by impurity might have stuck to her feet, and then when she walked, this soil fell here, so they were not sprinkling that.
Then, we give you a rule, may Allah reward you, pay attention to it: if an ambiguous term comes, whether in the Qur'an or the Sunnah, and we have a clear term, it is obligatory to refer the ambiguous to the clear.[Ali 'Imran 3:7] The Mother of the Book is its reference. So, if you are presented with evidence from the Qur'an or the Sunnah that contains ambiguity, but there are clear texts indicating the meaning, it is obligatory to interpret these ambiguous texts according to the clear texts.
The Shaykh : No, it does not, because we say she enters the mosque after her feet have dried.
The questioner : What is meant by his statement:
They sprinkle
يرشونThe Shaykh : No, like the tracks of dogs, because the mosques at that time were paved with gravel, so if a dog passed by, it would necessarily leave a mark.
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : No, the one who needs it. Someone might say: Since she urinates and then comes to the mosque, something of the soil contaminated by impurity might have stuck to her feet, and then when she walked, this soil fell here, so they were not sprinkling that.
Then, we give you a rule, may Allah reward you, pay attention to it: if an ambiguous term comes, whether in the Qur'an or the Sunnah, and we have a clear term, it is obligatory to refer the ambiguous to the clear.