THE DAILY ISLAMIC REMINDERS. Yaumul Jumuat. 2nd day of Jumaadal Aakhir.. (Friday 15th January 2021).

KINDS OF WATER FOR PURIFICATION continues. BismilLah. 

Leftover Water: This is water that is leftover after something drank from it. This is divided into what or who has drank from the water. Water leftover after people drank from it. This water is considered pure whether the individual was Muslim, Non-Muslim, menstruating or non-menstruating. The reference in the Qur’an that states “Verily the Mushrikeen are impure” (9:28) is referring to their impurity in beliefs and creed, not physical impurity.

Water leftover after an animal drank from it, whose meat is permissible for consumption. Such water is considered pure and allowed for purification. Water leftover after being drank by a donkey, mule, beasts or birds of prey. Such water is also considered pure and usable for purification. This is based on a few ahadīth that mention that we are allowed to drink from a pond after beasts have already drank from it.

Water remaining in a pot after a cat drank from it. This water is also considered pure.

Hadīth narrated by Kabshah bint Ka’b who mentioned that Qatādah fed a cat water that he was going to drink from, and he said that the Messenger said, “It (the cat) is not impure, it is of those that intermingle with you.” (From “the five” it is Sahīh)

Water leftover after a pig or dog drank from it. This water is considered impure and to be avoided. Hadīth narrated by Abū Hurairah: “If a dog drinks from one of your containers, wash it seven times.” (Ahmad & Muslim). Their saliva are impure. May ALLAH keep guiding us all and protect us from any satanic influences. Aameen.