Fiqh Made Easy

Question 1

cleaning from impurity has 3 forms:

Answer 1

Washing, wiping, moistening/sprinkling

Question 2

Water is 3 types

Answer 2

purifying (retains natural characteristics)
Pure (changed by pure substance in colour, taste or smell)
impure (changed by impure substance in colour, taste or smell)

Question 3

How is impure water purified?

Answer 3

The characteristics return naturally,
Its cleaned,
Adding pure water until characteristics fade

Question 4

What if there is water which its purity is not known, what to do?

Answer 4

The default is that its pure

Question 5

If there are two liquids, one pure and one impure, and you don’t know which is which, what to do?

Answer 5

Leave both and make tayammum

Question 6

If there are two garments, one pure and one impure, which does he wear for prayer?

Answer 6

He doesn’t pray twice, one for each.
Rather, he prays in what he feels more sure about.

Question 7

What utensils are allowed for ownership and use?

Answer 7

All pure utensils (even expensive), so long as there is no silver/gold. This applies to men and women

Question 8

Ruling on using utensils/clothes of people of the book and polytheists?

Answer 8

Default is that they are pure

Question 9

Which animal skins are allowed? How is it purified?

Answer 9

Tanning, but animal must be from those permissible to eat

Question 10

What is the ruling on body parts taken from live animals?

Answer 10

Flesh/bones = impure
Fur/feathers etc = pure

Question 11

Impurities are two types and categorised into 3:

Answer 11

Impure in itself, impure due to being polluted with impurity

1) that which there is agreement upon its impurity
2) disagreement
3) impurities pardoned in sharia

Question 12

Agreed upon impurities

Answer 12

Dead flesh of all land animals (except locusts),
Blood poured forth from slaughter,
All parts of pig,
Human urine/poo,
Seminal fluid and precum,
Meat from haram animal,
Flesh/bones of live animal,
Menstrual/post-partum blood,
Blood from prolonged vaginal blood flow,

Question 13

Disagreed upon impurities

Answer 13

Urine/poo of halal animals,
Sperm,
Dog’s saliva,
Vomit,
Dead animals with no flowing blood (ants, cockroaches, etc)

Question 14

Impurities pardoned by shariah

Answer 14

Mud in streets,
Small amounts of blood,
Pus from human/halal animal

Question 15

How to purify clothes

Answer 15

Wet impurity = wash
Solid = scrape off, then wash

Question 16

How to clean urine of weaning boy?

Answer 16

If he has not yet eaten solid foods, the place of impurity must simply be moistened

Question 17

How to clean impurities on ground?

Answer 17

Physical impurities are removed, then water is poured over any liquid impurity

Question 18

How to clean shoes?

Answer 18

Rubbing them/walking

Question 19

How to clean finished/polished items?
What if dog licks bowl?

Answer 19

Wiping

The bowl is washed seven times, one time with dirt

Question 20

ما الفرق بين الأستنجاء والاستجمار؟

Answer 20

الاستنجاء بالماء
الاستجمار بالأحجار والورقات

Question 21

In open land, what is prohibited when relieving oneself?

Answer 21

To face qibla or turn back to it,
To relieve oneself where it would cause harm/discomfort to others

Question 22

What is the minimum wiping after relieving oneself?

What is haram to use for cleaning oneself?

Answer 22

3 wipes. After that, odd numbers

Poo, bones, food or anything respectable

Question 23

What if a person doesn’t know where the impurity is on his garment?

Answer 23

He must wash the whole garment

Question 24

What are the sunnahs of fitrah

Answer 24

1. Using toothstick
2. shaving pubic hairs, plucking armpit hairs, trimming nails, washing finger joints/knuckles
3. trimming moustache and allowing beard to grow big
4. treating hair on one’s head by oiling and combing
5. dying grey hairs with henna or katam
6. perfuming oneself
7. circumcision

Question 25

When is miswak emphasised?

Answer 25

Before prayer, ablution, reading quran, entering mosque/house,
After sleep and when breath changes smell