If I Didn’t Wash Myself Would Transfer of Impurity Took Place?


Hanafi Fiqh

Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel

Question

If I Didn’t Wash Myself Would Transfer of Impurity Took Place?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.

There is a slight possibility of it transferring to the other side. However, as you mentioned, you went for a shower, so you’ll have washed yourself thoroughly. You have nothing to worry about. You are just having doubts. Ignore them.

Transfer of impurity takes place if a sign of the filth (color, smell, taste) appears.

[Shurunbulali, Maraqi al-Falah]

Apply the principle ‘Everything is pure until proven otherwise.’ Thus, until and unless you have near certainty that impurities have transferred, assume its purity. One should not allow the Shaytan to place misgivings in one’s heart.

These types of misgivings are all too common in regard to matters of purification. Shaytan plays on people’s sincerity in their religion and incites them toward false caution.

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Wassalam,

Ilyas Patel

Checked and approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey.

He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan.

He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in UK and Ireland. He was teaching at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences.

He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His personal interest is the love of books and gardening.