 السلام عليكم ورحمة الله و بكم في الحقام SOS The show that discusses religious duties and practices by the Grand Ayatollah Sayyad Shirazi May Allah prolong his life I am your host Mosin Shah Enjoying to meet my co-host Sheikh Ali Ma'ash السلام عليكم شيخنا و عليكم السلام و رحمة الله Today's topic will be مطاحرات the things that actually purify نجاصات شيخنا What is the actual meaning of مطاحرات and how many of them are there? بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم محمد و علله الطيبين الطاحرين There are actually 11 types of purifiers مطاحرات and their task is to actually purify whatever becomes negis an impure and as I mentioned this is to do with purifying in the religious and Sharia things so it's not actually like لأن الهيجين هو مختلف من تطحير ويجعل شيء بحق هذه الهيجين now are for the purpose of allowing us to enter into the Salah and pray prayers and be able to fast, be able to go to Hajj and so forth and the first of the مطحرات and purifiers is water as we know water is the source of life as the Holy Quran states واجعلنا من الماء كل شيء الحي everything we made alive by the water so the water is the source of life the water is the source of living for all creatures, not only the human beings so the first type of مطحرات and purifiers is water and of course it's classified as the مطلق and مضاف now the مطلق is the water in which is pure and natural in other words the stream waters, rivers, the sea itself, rain water and so forth that running water that we use every day from the taps of our sinks and bathrooms so to be able to purify something you have to make sure that this type of water is used which is pure and مطلق now the second type of water is the مضاف which means mixed water now either it's extracted from the juice the liquids from the juice so by extracting the for example from the orange juice or the apple juice and so forth you cannot actually make yourself pure and طاهر from the نجس with a cup of apple or orange juice that won't make the نجس pure also the water which was mixed with something else water and soil which becomes مط water and lemon which makes it a lemonade for example you cannot actually use these types of water or liquids to purify your نجاس show a question here then when we have clothes which are نجس and we say to ourselves we'll just throw it in the washing machine now the washing machine is a mixture of water and soap or detergent so even though the clothes will be clean can we consider them to be طاهر there are different opinions with the علماء with regard to purifying the clothes inside the washing machine and for example one of the علماء says that you have to initially apply rinse to the washing machine to actually rinse and clean the نجاس first and then you apply the detergent and so forth to actually wash the clothes some others might say that no you can actually just pour inside the washing machine allow it to wash and it actually will drain the water 2-3 times so that process will actually make the clothes طاهر and clean what about for example if I have a piece of my jacket there's some blood on it I get a sponge with ferry in water and I'm rubbing it like this is that going to make it طاهر because I'm using مضاف water water mixed with ferry liquid and I rub it onto my jacket that will actually spread the نجاس more and more because you have the مضاف now and excess water with something else with the liquid ferry or anything else or with soap for example you must make sure that you have only pure water to purify your نجاس out of the clothes or body or anything else without the pure water we cannot have something نجاس becoming طاهر and pure just to add more points with regard to مطلق مضاف it's important to also note that the one cannot actually use the مضاف water let's say rose water for example to do غسل or وضو this is not called water it's rose water it's an orange juice it's a mud for example it's water with soil for example so we cannot actually use them to do وضو and to do the غسل واجب so it's important that we actually know these things to avoid any kind of what's about water which is scented so because we know to where اطر is مستحاب so somebody might think oh do you know what I'm gonna add a couple of drops of اطر or some sort of fragrance to the water and what I do my وضو I can do my وضو and spread the nice smell around my body killing two birds with one stone is that وضو actually acceptable or not the thing is if that rose or that perfume overrides the water as purity as a pure water then it actually makes it مضاف mixed water and you can't use it so it depends if it's really just one or two drops and the water's quantities is quite large then that's a different issue otherwise we cannot use it okay so شيخنا you're discussing how water we can use water to purify our body and we can use it to purify our body and we can use it to purify our items but what if the water itself is نجس how do we purify water if that water became نجس then we can actually purify it by opening for example a running water on it a tap water for example and allowing the change of the نجس because there are three things that makes the water نجس if the smell changes and if the taste changes and if the color changes if they actually happen to water then the best thing is to actually make water to run on that cup or pond or whatever else that water and allowing it to water change and by the time it changes to pure water then you can actually use it so the only way to actually change نجس water is to add more water to it until the نجس is no longer seen whether it be changing color changing smell changing taste exactly yes what about water from the well as we know back then they had wells even to this day I know my family about calling Pakistan we have wells what if the well was to become نجس if something was to fall into it for example a dead animal such as a pigeon or a rat or a dog something like that that well now has become نجس obviously depending on the water size but let's say it was كليل water how do you purify the well as long as that well has a source of water coming in flowing in from the deep ground then the well will remain طاهر and like running water unless the water changes the taste the color or the smell if they change in that water then it makes the whole water نجس and you have to wait until the new flow of water comes in and purifies the well and then you can actually consume and use it so شيخنا another method of purification the second one is the earth the earth again is another type of and source of purifying the نجس and as the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said جعيلة ليال الأرض مسجدين وطهورة the earth became to me as a source of سجدة and worship and as a source of purification as well and طهورة now with regard to the earth the ground itself the earth itself will make طاهر the soles of the feet and the shoes when they became نجس so let's say for instance somebody walks on the earth and something impure touches and sticks on his foot or the shoes now there are three conditions to actually be able to purify that نجس substance from the foot or from the shoes number one that the ground is طاهر you want to make your foot so shoes you have to make sure that the ground that you're going to walk on is actually طاهر that's the first thing so you don't just keep walking on the نجس earth number two that the ground is dry that's important as well because the moisture and the wetness of the ground will again makes the feet نجس again and again so you just keep doing the نجس you just spreading the نجس so you have to make sure that the ground is dry as well and the third condition is that the نجس itself be it blood or urine or anything else must be removed from the feet or from the shoes so basically by walking a few steps that نجس should be removed from the foot or from the shoes so eventually to make it طاهر and pure by walking a few steps that نجس should be removed from the foot or the shoes and ends up being طاهر okay شكرا but can we use this method for other types of نجس so example نجس on my jeans نجس on my jacket نجس on my hands can rub it onto the earth and it is طاهر نجس this type of purification of earth is specifically for the shoes and the feet okay so the bare feet نجس we cannot actually نجس use of anything else نجس it was actually discussed that if the tires of the car for example might also apply the same similar rule but you cannot actually rub your hands or your head or your forehead or your clothes with a bit of dust or soil to actually make it طاهر you have to go back to the water to purify it and the earth that we're discussing here is this natural earth I mean living in the west we have pavements made out of clay paves and we've got tar for roads can we use that for purifying our feet and our shoes or is it only natural earth yes the ground should be soil or rock and such like natural in other words we cannot actually use the carpet or the rug or the grass for example or anything vegetation grown to make our foot or shoes طاهر by walking on them so they have to be mainly what is known as earth just to add to the previous question you asked about purifying by earth also cement brick and chalk they also have the same capability of purifying the foot and the shoes as well so we can actually use them let's say you have a ground filled with bricks or chops for example you can walk on it and it actually purifies your foot شخنا you've said walking on the earth rocks cement chalk and such like or purify the shoes and the soil of the feet but in the west we have a lot of wood grounds that have wooden floorings especially in schools and in traditional western architecture they've used wooden floorings would that purify the shoes and the soil of the feet as an obligatory precaution it is best to avoid walking on the wooden floor especially the ones which are treated by glossy paint and so forth so no we cannot actually use it so the best thing is to avoid working on wooden floor to purify our shoes or feet and how does the earth actually purify the soles of the feet or the shoes I mean how many steps do we have to take for it to actually removed in the jasad it's preferred for the one to walk about 15 steps or more and even if the jasad itself went away and off the feet or shoes by the very first steps but you have to keep walking 50 steps or more and that will actually insha'Allah make the shoes or the foot at the end of the day after 15 steps the jasad is still there this is very difficult very tough you have to continue walking until the jasad is removed and then you can actually have the foot are you actually allowed to physically remove it yourself so take off the shoes use something to take it off you can just rub a scratch on the floor and that's it you know and then put it back on and then walk 15 steps that's it yeah and it becomes the last I sent him okay Shaykhana what about if the actual earth itself is nejes how do we purify that let's say someone just slaughtered the cow all the blood is all over the road how do we purify that well if naturally the sky rained and the rain washed away the blood and removed the nejasad then it becomes a tahr and pure otherwise you have to open running water on the ground and you try to actually wash away the blood and the actual nejasad itself should be removed from the ground and that will make it eventually that ground a tahr and I mean you can even walk barefoot even if it's the ground is wet but as long as the nejasad has been removed away and again I mentioned this the rule that everything is tahr is pure so wherever you go any ground you see on earth you walk anywhere as I've mentioned even the bathroom grounds they are tahr pure unless you see yourself nejasad you're certain or somebody who you trust would tell you that this place was nejes and then you have to avoid it otherwise everything is tahr unless you're certain that it's nejasad Thank you very much Shaykhana Thank you very much for joining us on 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