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performed his ablution. He said, ‘Our ghusl is acceptable
according to the Shâfi’î madhhab. It was declared in a hadîth
that when something foul gets mixed with water that amounts to
a qullatayn, it is not foul unless one of its three peculiarities is
changed.’ A qullatayn is two hundred and twenty kilograms of
water. The book al-Barîqa, explaining this point, says that it is
permissible to imitate another madhhab when necessity for it
arises. The book Durr-ul Mukhtâr says at the end of its chapter
on ‘Prayer Times,’ “When there is darûrat (compulsion, strict
necessity), another madhhab is imitated.” While explaining this,
the book Ibni Âbidîn says, “One of the two inferences (qaul) is
written here. According to the second inference (qaul), when
there is harâj, hardship, one of the other three madhhabs is
imitated, no matter whether there is darûrat or not. This is the
preferrable inference. When there is difficulty in doing
something, if your own madhhab shows a way of making it
easy, or if it is excused, there will be no need to imitate any
other madhhab. Quoting from the book Husn-ut-tanabbuh Fittashabbuh,
it is writen in the two hundred and eleventh page of
the book Hadîqa: “When someone’s nafs does not want to do
what is easy, then it is useful for him to act according to a
rukhsat by leaving the azîmats (difficulties). But this should not
lead one to search for rukhsats because collecting the easier
parts of madhhabs, which is called Talfiq, is harâm and an act
of obeying the nafs and shaytân (satan).”]
If disbelievers themselves were foul, necessarily they
wouldn’t be clean after accepting îmân. Then, calling them foul
is intended to declare that their hearts are foul. When they
accept îmân, this foulness dissappears and they become clean.
That their beliefs and their hearts are foul does not mean that
their bodies are foul. These âyats declare that disbelievers are
foul. These facts do not change. Changes can be made in
commands and prohibitions. Changes cannot be made in the
fact of how something is. [The book Hadîqa, in explaining the
disasters incurred by the tongues says, “Allahu ta’âlâ has made
alternations, changes in twenty âyats that communicate His
commandments and prohibitions.” He has not made any
alterations in qisas (facts about ancient people) and facts.]
Since facts do not change, disbelievers must be always foul.
This is the foulness of disbelief and of creed. Thus, the
interpretation made will be compatible with the original
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