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7.0 FILTH
Purification of filth from the body and clothing of the musalli is obligatory, as from the place in which he performs salah.
7.1 Means of cleansing
1. Cleansing of filth is permissible with water, and with any pure liquid with which it can be removed, such as vinegar and rose-water.
2. If filth has touch become affixed to a khuff, and it has body, and then it dried, then rubbing it with the ground is permissible.
3. Semen is unclean, and it is obligatory to wash it, but if it has dried on a garment it suffices to scrape it off.
4. If filth becomes affixed to a mirror, or a sword, it is sufficient to wipe it.
5. If the ground is contaminated by filth, and then it dries in the sun and its trace disappears, salah is permissible in that place, but tayammum is not permissible from it.
6. Any hide which has been tanned has become clean - salah is valid on it, and wudu from it - except the skins of pigs and humans. The hair of a dead animal, its bones, hooves, sinews and horns are clean.
7.2 Regulations of Cleansing
1. Whoever is contaminated by severe filth, such as blood, urine, stool, or wine, to the extent of a dirham or less, salah is permissible with it, but if it is more [than a dirham] it is not permissible.
2. If he is contaminated with light filth, such as the urine of those [animals] whose flesh may be eaten, salah is permissible with it as long as it does not reach one fourth of the garment.
3. Cleansing of the filth which it is obligatory to wash is of two categories:
- That which has a visible essence, its cleansing is the removal of its substance, unless there persists some trace of it which is cumersome to remove.
- That which does not have a visible essence, its cleansing is that it be washed until the one washing is satisfied that it has been cleansed.
7.3 Istinja’
1. Istinja' is sunnah.
2. Stones, and that which take their place, suffice; one wipes [the area] until it is clean.
3. There is no [emphasized] sunnah number [for the stones].
4. Washing it with water is better.
5. If the filth exceeds its orifice, nothing but water may be used [to remove it].
6. One should not perform istinja' with a bone, nor with dung, nor with food, nor with the right hand.
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