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something besides milk, even once, or whose age is above two and the urine of a suckling girl
should be cleaned only by washing with water.
[Muhammad Mazhar Effendi, one of the scholars of (the city of) Van (in Eastern Turkey), states
in Misbah-un-najat, "The najasat seen is washed until the three peculiarities signifying its
existence are removed and then it is washed once again [with mutlaq water]. Never mind if the
signs of najasat can still be observed slightly. When the najasat is not visible, pouring water over
it once will do. If a container licked by a pig or a dog, or its own hairs licked by itself, touches
one's clothes or other things as it is still wet, these things must be washed six times with clean
water and once with muddy water. In Shafi'i, tayammum is not permissible before the prayer
time comes. Tayammum is made when one is ill or traveling. There should not be any holes on
the mests and both of them should be put on at the same time after the ablution is finished.
Corpses of all land animals are najs. With the exception of dogs and pigs, their hides become
clean after tanning; how ever, hides of inedible animals do not become clean, and namaz cannot
be performed on them."]
ISTINJA - Cleaning one's front or back after najasat has issued is called istinja. Cleaning, that
is, taharat, is not necessary when gas or a stone has issued. Istinja is sunnat-i muakkada. In other
words, after urinating or emptying the bowels in a rest-room it is sunnat for a man or woman to
clean his or her front or back (private organs) with a stone or with some water so as not to leave
any urine or excrement. The number of washings needed has not been prescribed by the sunnat.
After cleaning with a stone, it is sunnat to wash again with water. But if one can not make an
istinja with water without opening one's private parts near others, one gives up the istinja with
water even if a large amount of excrement is left. One does not open one's private parts, and
performs namaz in this state. If one opens them, one will become a sinner who has committed a
haram. When one finds a secluded place, one makes istinja with water and performs the namaz
again. The statement: "when there is a darurat involving relieving oneself or in performing a
ghusl a man can open his private parts in the presence of other men and a woman can do it in the
presence of other women," is weak. Under such conditions it is necessary to make a tayammum
instead of a ghusl. For Ibni Abidin says on the hundred and fourth page: "If doing a
commandment will cause you to commit a haram, you must omit the commandment lest you will
commit the haram." [Since a fard is omitted lest you should commit a haram, it will certainly be
necessary to omit a sunnat lest you should commit a haram [ (Ibni Abidin page 105).] It is
written in the book Uyunul-basair that a sunnat must be omitted even lest one should commit a
makruh].
It is tahrimi makruh to make an istinja with bones, food, manure, bricks, pieces of pots or glass,
coal, animal food, others' possessions, costly things such as silk, things thrown away from
mosques, zamzam water, leaves and paper (excluding toilet paper). Even a blank piece of paper
must be respected. It is permissible to make an istinja with pieces of paper or newspapers
containing terrestrial names or writings that have nothing to do with the din. But you must not
make an istinja with any paper containing Islamic letters. It is permissible to clean semen or
urine with a piece of cloth and then wash the cloth. A seriously ill person without a husband or
wife does not have to make an istinja. But he has to have someone help him make an ablution. It
is makruh to urinate or empty the bowels with one's front or back towards the qibla, standing or
naked without any excuse. A ghusl is not permissible at a place where urine has accumulated. It
is not permissible to urinate in a place used for making ghusls. But it is permissible if the urine
will not accumulate and will flow away. Water used for istinja becomes najs. It must not be
allowed to splash on clothes. Therefore, when making an istinja one must open one's private
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