Is blood ritually impure, and does the loss of reason invalidate the ablution?
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The questioner : Noble Shaykh, is blood ritually impure? And does the loss of reason due to intoxicants not invalidate the ablution?
The Shaykh : As for the loss of reason due to intoxicants or other things being an invalidator of the ablution, we have spoken about it and clarified that it is an invalidator.
As for blood, it has categories: if blood comes out of a pure animal after its death, it is pure. All blood that comes out of a pure animal after its death is pure. Is this the correct criterion? All blood that comes out of a pure animal after its death is pure.
Yes, no, no, it means that if the one from which the blood came out has died, then it is pure, so its blood is pure. For example, the blood of fish is pure, and the blood of lice and flies, for instance, and things like them, their blood is also pure because their carrion is pure. However, it is well known among the jurists that the exception is the human being. The human being is pure after death, and yet his blood is ritually impure according to the majority of the scholars of knowledge, to the extent that some scholars have reported it as a consensus. There is no doubt that blood coming out of the two passages is ritually impure. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered women to wash the blood of menstruation, even if it is a little. As for what comes out from other than the two passages, the majority of the scholars of knowledge, and it has been reported as a consensus, that it is ritually impure. And some scholars held that human blood is pure as long as it does not come out of the two passages.
In any case, there is no doubt that the most cautious course is for a person to purify himself from blood coming out from other than the two passages, as a precaution and to clear his conscience.
As for what comes out of an animal whose carrion is ritually impure, such as the blood of a camel, a sheep, a cow, and things like that, it is ritually impure. However, a small amount is excused, except for what comes out after the ritual slaughter, which is pure. If the animal is ritually slaughtered and the blood comes out and it dies, then what remains in the veins is pure, even if its redness appears. Yes.
The Shaykh : As for the loss of reason due to intoxicants or other things being an invalidator of the ablution, we have spoken about it and clarified that it is an invalidator.
As for blood, it has categories: if blood comes out of a pure animal after its death, it is pure. All blood that comes out of a pure animal after its death is pure. Is this the correct criterion? All blood that comes out of a pure animal after its death is pure.
Yes, no, no, it means that if the one from which the blood came out has died, then it is pure, so its blood is pure. For example, the blood of fish is pure, and the blood of lice and flies, for instance, and things like them, their blood is also pure because their carrion is pure. However, it is well known among the jurists that the exception is the human being. The human being is pure after death, and yet his blood is ritually impure according to the majority of the scholars of knowledge, to the extent that some scholars have reported it as a consensus. There is no doubt that blood coming out of the two passages is ritually impure. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered women to wash the blood of menstruation, even if it is a little. As for what comes out from other than the two passages, the majority of the scholars of knowledge, and it has been reported as a consensus, that it is ritually impure. And some scholars held that human blood is pure as long as it does not come out of the two passages.
In any case, there is no doubt that the most cautious course is for a person to purify himself from blood coming out from other than the two passages, as a precaution and to clear his conscience.
As for what comes out of an animal whose carrion is ritually impure, such as the blood of a camel, a sheep, a cow, and things like that, it is ritually impure. However, a small amount is excused, except for what comes out after the ritual slaughter, which is pure. If the animal is ritually slaughtered and the blood comes out and it dies, then what remains in the veins is pure, even if its redness appears. Yes.