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5253 The wonder of the two streams of water, one sweet and the other salt, constantly mingling, and yet always separate,
is referred to more than once. The never-ending circuit is established by streams and rivers mingling with the ocean,
the ocean sending forth mists and steam through a process of evaporation which forms clouds, and the clouds by
condensation pouring forth rain to feed the streams and rivers again: see notes 3111-2 to xxv. 53, and n. 5185 to lv.
19, and the further references given there. (56.70)
67:30 - Say: "See ye? If your stream be some morning lost (in the underground earth) who then can
supply you with clear-flowing water?" 5591
5591 The Sura is closed with a parable, taken from a vital fact of our physical life, and leading up to the understanding of
our spiritual life. In our daily life, what would happen if we woke up some fine morning to find that the sources and
springs of our water-supply had disappeared and gone down into the hollows of the earth? Nothing could save our life.
Without water we cannot live, and water cannot rise above its level, but always seeks a lower-level. So in spiritual life.
Its sources and springs are in the divine wisdom that flows from on high. Allah is the real source of that life, as He is of
all forms of life. We must seek His Grace and Mercy. We cannot find grace or mercy or blessing from anything lower.
His Wisdom and Mercy are like, fresh clear-flowing spring-water, not like the muddy murky wisdom and goodness of
this lower world which is only relative, and which often hampers life rather than advances it. (67.30)
Fiqh-us-Sunnah Subjects
Purification
1. Purification
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2. Mutlaq water
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3. Rain water, snow and hail
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4. Sea water
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5. Water from the Zamzam Well
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6. Altered water
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7. Used water
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8. Water mixed with pure elements
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9. Water mixed with impure elements
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10. Leftover water
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11. Water leftover after people have drunk from the pot
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12. Water left in a container after an "allowable" animal has drunk from it
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13. Water remaining in a pot after it has been drunk by a donkey, mule, beasts or birds of prey
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14. Water remaining in a pot after a cat has drunk from it
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15. Water left in a pot after a pig or a dog has drunk from it
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16. Purifying the body and clothes
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17. Purifying the ground
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18. Purifying clarified butter and other similar substances
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19. Purifying the skin of a dead animal
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20. Purifying mirrors and similar objects
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