 Assalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Welcome to Ahkam SOS The show that discusses Islamic rulings and practices by the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Saadik Shirazi may Allah prolong his life I'm your host Mohsin Shah and my co-host joining me as always Sheikh Ali Maash, Salamu alaikum sheikhna Wa alaikum as-salam warahmatullahi Today's topic we've received so many of your emails and we'll be going through the questions in regards to Najaa Saad Sheikhna The first question I've got here Is it permissible to use the skin of animals which we have deemed to be anal Najaa Saad I mean they are impure in their essence For example the dog and the pig Can we use their skin for crockery, utensils, plates of glasses, things like that Anything that we can eat and drink from Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem Basically it is not permissible and allowed to use the skin of the najaa animal Such as the pig or the dog And even the skin of the carcass or the corpse of dead animals A dead sheep for example or a dead cow Or the ones which were not slotted according to the shari'a law, the halal way We're not allowed to use them for eating or drinking as utensils or crockery So we cannot use them and to make for example cups or plates out of them And then pour the water over the food Inside these utensils and use them Because the food will become najaa The moisture will touch the plate or the cup And eventually it makes the food najaa And we cannot consume it Okay but what about those people who go hunting And I'm not sure if you know about They bring back the dead skin of the animal You go into the living room and there's a big bear or a lion or a zebra And this is because they've been hunting Is that considered najaa if you were to drop water on it or something like that Well as I've said previously that if the hunting was carried out by a Muslim hunter And he said Bismillah and the rulings for the shari'a way of hunting Then that skin of course Let's say when deer becomes tahr And even we can eat that meat Because the hunting was halal the way it was carried out Before shooting for example they would say Bismillah and so forth All the conditions of making that hunt halal So the skin becomes halal and everything is halal to eat and consume and use So the issue is just to do with the items and with the skins which are najaa Even though I mean we can actually use them other than eating and drinking So we can actually buy bags or shoes which are made from dead corpse of animals For example we can buy actually bags or shoes from the western world or from the China From an Muslim country which was made by a dead animal for example You talk about leather belts leather shoes But make sure that you take it off in the salata in the prayer time Avoid touching with wet hands for example So we try to avoid them for the purpose of najaa in purity and the worship What about in modern day society especially in science and medicine We know about using a pig's heart for a bypass operation Maybe other animals using their body parts to put inside humans to live on Is this considered najaa? In terms of using the skin of the dead animals and corpse and so forth For the purpose of treating the sick and operations there is no objection of course You can actually use it but you have to make sure that you purify your hand Or the body part in which it touched this particular tool which was used to treat that patient And just to purify it for the salah and so forth Okay Another question I was sent in Can we trust a young man or a young lady I'm thinking of talking about a child here, someone under the age of Baluch If they were to tell us that something is tahir or something is najaa Can we actually take their word for it? The young boys or girls who are near the age of adolescents and Baluch If their words are reassuring you know that boy or girl they are both Let's say you trust their words They don't for example they say it for a joke or a laugh or they're lying for example Then if their words are reassuring then you can actually trust their words Either you in terms of purifying something to be tahir or something that becomes najaa So in both ways we can actually take their words if we trust them Trust their words Another question that I receive then is quite important as well Is that how do you purify something So if there was some blood on my shirt or some other najaa Maybe a dog walked past me and it was a wet dog or something How do I purify that item? Basically if you have that substance najaa on the clothes or body or any item around you Then initially you have to remove that substance first You remove that najaa if it's a bit of blood or something else You remove it first from the table, from the chair, from the body or the clothes And then you wash it under the tap if you could actually The running water just once it should actually make it purified So that's the first way Is there a danger of what you're using to purify something that will become najaa For example, if I'm washing blood or feces or something like that The water I'm using to clean it and to purify it, that becomes najaa I've got a cloth, a wet cloth I start wiping the table because there's blood on it Is there a chance that the cloth will become najaa If there's so much liquid in it, it's on my hand What is now najaa? Is there a danger of this? The rule always is that if the moisture of the najaa transfers from one place to another Then of course it will make it also najaa So if you have a tissue or a napkin which is wet for example And it touches something najaa of course it will transfer the najaa It's in your hand and that napkin or tissue is thin So in a way that it can actually transfer the moisture from the skin to your hand In which the tissue touched actually the actual substance The najaa itself, the blood, the urine and so on Of course it will also make your hands najaa as well To purify as well and clean that napkin Sheikhna, is it right to assume that when you go into a bathroom The floor is najaa's, if the floor gets wet If you do noodle and some water drops on the floor That water is najaa's Is it correct to assume this because you're in a place where You know urination and waste is removed from the body Or is it the opposite that no It probably was cleaned before you came in It was dry and everything was fine It is tahrir, the water that drops on is tahrir as well The rule is always with regard to the najaa's That, and it's derived from the hadith A narration that says everything is pure Everything is tahrir Until you become certain that it became najaa's Either by somebody telling you someone you trust Or you saw it yourself in all eyes Or you heard somebody say otherwise everything is tahrir So even the floors in the bathrooms are tahrir and pure Unless you see it or somebody tells you that yesterday Or a few minutes ago there was a najaa's on the floor And the cleaner actually just mopped the floor without washing And so forth So the rule is always tahrir Unless you become certain that it became najaa's I have another question here It's a bit odd but it says What do you do with items such as rice or flour, wheat How can you purify these items if they come into contact with najaa's Basically you can either have the water running On these items let's say the rice And actually removes the najaa's from it Or you just immerse it inside water Let's say stream water or core water That makes it actually tahrir So you have to actually go through the process of purifying the rice And such like food to make it tahrir for consuming Because you cannot actually eat and consume najaa's food or drink So Shaykhna is there a difference between when cleaning blood Or urine from something I mean is extra attention given to one or the other To purify and wash away the urine or the blood or any other najaa's If you have running water I mean you just put that thing which became najaa's under that The type of water and it just makes it tahrir straight away The thing is if you are in a situation that you have to have your own bottle for example And you go to the bathrooms or other places You want to purify the blood of the urine and so forth Now for the case of the urine You have to make sure that with a little bit of water Like a little bottle of water or a cup of water For the urine you have to clean it twice So two times to clean that place which became najaa's by the urine And that's when you remove the najaa's Of course While it's under you can't pour the water twice You just remove the najaa's You have to remove it first and then pour Twice That's with the urine For the blood by removing the najaa's itself once So the substance itself when it's removed from its place Then you can apply just once running water from the cup Running towards away from the najaa's And that will make it that place be it a hand or feet or a table or chair It will make it tahrir straight away Just once for the blood We've got another question coming here saying Is it okay to eat or drink something najaa's Are we allowed to eat or drink something najaa's For example I'm a glass of water Maybe a drop of blood fell in it or something I had a cut on my finger and I dropped a blood fell in it Can I still drink that water? The colour hasn't changed The taste hasn't changed It is not permissible to consume food or drink Which became najaa's impure by blood or anything else Any other najaa's And of course we have been told to always consume a tayyibat Good things, good food and drink Always to use pure things Alhamdulillah this is one of the blessings of the religion of Islam That taught us to always drink And eat food and drink which are tahrir So no of course we cannot consume such food at all Or drink such drink So this is a really good question I've got here And it's in regards to receiving gifts which are najaa's So what do we do when in the west Christmas time they might give the best employee a bottle of wine Or your neighbours might send some food over and it's pork sausages or something like that Because with najaa's we're not allowed to give it to somebody else are we So what do we do in that situation? With regard to the pork and the wine There's no way that we can actually give it to somebody else Let's say to a non-muslim to consume it Because with regard to these two The food and drink, pork meat and wine We're not allowed to sell it or give it to anybody else Even those who have the belief that Or consider it's tahrir or whatever they want to have the belief in Other than that if you have for example Biscuits or chocolates with animal oil Which is not slotted according to the sharia law Then you can actually give it to somebody who is not Muslim And who believes that he can actually eat a non halal food So the exception is only with the pork and the wine and alcohol That we can't give it to anybody else So if it had extracts of chicken or extracts of beef which was not halal We are allowed to give that to a non-muslim So look, I can't make this, you have it But if it's alcohol or pork which are what we call Aynum Najasa, they're impure in their essence That cannot be handled at all That's what we throw away Ascent What about gelatin sheikh now? We see a lot of things that have pork gelatin Things that have beef gelatin Obviously there's also vegetarian gelatin now Which is available for vegetarians and vegans which is allowed But what about the pork and the beef gelatin? Has the composition, has it changed? Has the substance changed? Or has it remained one part of its original form And is still considered negis? Whether it got to the pork or beef gelatin The beef in which was not, I mean the cow's meat Which was not slaughtered according to the shari'a Not halal meat Of course we cannot consume that kind of gelatin And the alternative is either to use the gelatin Which came from the Islamic countries, from Muslim countries Which is halal, of course If a Muslim country sells beef gelatin then it's halal Which is actually by from Muslim countries All the second option is to use the vegetarian ones The vegetarian gelatin's Now available in many of the western countries Shops you can easily buy And we always try to refrain from anything Which we have no certainty in it So always there are doubts about specific food or drinks So we try to stay away from the consumption So the best option is to use the vegetarian one Or the halal one from the Muslim countries Thank you very much Thank you to all of you for joining us on this discussion Thank you for all your questions And if you have any more questions you'd like to send in Please send them to the contact details provided And insha'Allah we'll discuss them on the relevant topic And the relevant discussion on the show Insha'Allah we'll see you soon Stay safe May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon you