- Ahkam: It is a set of rules and guidelines that a Muslim must act within. Like the branches of religion (prayer, fasting, zakat, khums, hajj, jihad, enjoining the good, forbidding the evil, Tawalli, Tabarri).
Ahkam (Islamic Rules) for Teenagers and Young Adults (Lesson “4”)
Ahkam:
Najasat (Impurities)[1]: Najasat are the following:
1 Urine
2 Faeces
3) Semen
4 Dead
5) Blood
6) Dog
7) Pig
8) Wine and any intoxicating liquid
9) Beer/Fuqa
10) Unbeliever
11) Sweat of Najis/impure camels
The rest of the things are all pure; Unless they come across one of these (impurities/Najasat) in a wet state, Najasat/impurities is transferred to another.
* The urine and faeces of what animals are impure?
Answer: Haram-Meat animals that have jumping blood. Those that after cutting their heads, their blood gushes out (but the urine and faeces of Hallal-Meat animals such as cows and sheeps are pure).
Animals that do not have jumping blood, such as snakes and fish, are pure.
Note: Urine and faeces of horses and all birds are clean.
* An animal is said to be dead or is killed in a way other than the order of Islam. for example, when the head is cut, the cutter did not say Bismillah, or he did not face the animal towards the Qiblah.
A person who has just died and has not yet bathed (Ghusl), his whole body is impure/Najis, but it becomes clean after bathing. Of course, the body of the martyrs who died on the battlefield are clean, and ghusl and shroud are not necessary.
The whole body of pigs and dogs, even their nails and hair, is impure.
The Ahkam or Rules of Blood:
an animal that does not have jumping blood, its blood is pure, like the blood of fish and snakes; but the blood of human is Najis/impured. As well as the blood of animals that have jumping blood, such as chicken and sheep...
* If we don't know whether something that was pure before has become impure/Najis or not; It is considered clean/Tahir.
* Eating and drinking impure/Najis things are forbidden.
[1] نجاسات