Does laundry become pure when washed in modern automatic washing machines that wash on their own without human intervention?
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The questioner : Does laundry become pure when washed in modern automatic washing machines that wash on their own without human intervention?
The Shaykh : As it appears, the questioner’s intent is: if a ritually impure garment is washed in these electrically powered machines, does it become pure or not?
The answer is that it becomes pure, because this water purifies. The objective of removing ritual impurity is that its substance is removed by any means of removal. Even if a person were to hang his garment on a roof and then rain fell and purified it, it would be pure, because intention is not a condition for removing ritual impurity.
The Shaykh : As it appears, the questioner’s intent is: if a ritually impure garment is washed in these electrically powered machines, does it become pure or not?
The answer is that it becomes pure, because this water purifies. The objective of removing ritual impurity is that its substance is removed by any means of removal. Even if a person were to hang his garment on a roof and then rain fell and purified it, it would be pure, because intention is not a condition for removing ritual impurity.