What are Najasaat?
Najasaat are things that are considered unclean in Islam.
Types of Najasaat
- Inherent Uncleanliness (Ain Najasat): Some things are naturally unclean, as in there is no way to purify them.
- Acquired Uncleanliness: Some things are inherently clean, although they become unclean by touching those things that are inherently unclean, and can be cleaned by washing them.
Inherently Unclean Things:
- Urine and Stool:
– Urine and stool and physically unclean as well as ritually unclean (ie. We must perform Wudhu after passing Urine or Stool (and gas) before performing Salah)
– The urine and excrement of the animals are also unlcean if they belong to animals whose meat is forbidden in Islam and whose blood spurts out when a blood-vessel is cut. If these two conditions are not found together in an animal, its urine and excrement are not najis. For example, even though its blood spurts out, sheep’s urine and stool are not najis because it’s meat is not forbidden. However, the droppings of all the birds are not najis (tahir/clean). - Semen
- Blood: Blood of the animals whose blood spurts out is also considered najis. But the blood of an animal whose blood does not spurt out is tahir, e.g., the blood of fish or the body-fluid of a mosquito.
- Corpses
- Dogs
- Pigs
- Kafir: Someone who denies that there is one God is considered unclean.
- Intoxicating liquids: Liquids like alchohol are unclean.
The above article contains a summary from “The Ritual and Spiritual Purity” by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi. Click to read more: https://www.al-islam.org/ritual-and-spiritual-purity-sayyid-muhammad-rizvi/i-najasat-taharat#b-ayan-najisah-inherently-unclean-things
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