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Chapter Two Purification from Impurities
Issue 55: There are ten impurities (najasa):
1 & 2. Urine and feces of humans and any animal whose meat is forbidden and has gushing blood (i.e., blood gushes out when its vein is cut). The obligatory precaution is that the urine of such animals without gushing blood but having meat is also impure, though bird droppings, even from forbidden birds, are pure.
3. The dead body of humans and any animal with gushing blood, including soul-bearing parts detached from a living body.
4. Semen of humans and any animal with gushing blood, even if the animal is lawful to eat, as an obligatory precaution.
5. Blood from the human body or any animal with gushing blood.
6. Dogs and pigs that live on land.
7. Wines, and as an obligatory precaution, beer (fuqāʿ), though drinking both is absolutely prohibited.
8. Based on obligatory precaution, non-believers except Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians.
9. Based on obligatory precaution, the sweat of an animal that feeds on human excrement and is accustomed to it.
Issue 56: If any of these impurities contacts a pure object and both or one of them is wet enough for moisture to transfer, the pure object becomes impure. If both are dry, or if the moisture is insufficient to transfer, the impurity does not spread. If an impure object comes into contact with another pure object under these conditions, the impurity transfers unless there are three or more intermediaries between the impurity and the pure object.
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1 & 2. Urine and feces of humans and any animal whose meat is forbidden and has gushing blood (i.e., blood gushes out when its vein is cut). The obligatory precaution is that the urine of such animals without gushing blood but having meat is also impure, though bird droppings, even from forbidden birds, are pure.
3. The dead body of humans and any animal with gushing blood, including soul-bearing parts detached from a living body.
4. Semen of humans and any animal with gushing blood, even if the animal is lawful to eat, as an obligatory precaution.
5. Blood from the human body or any animal with gushing blood.
6. Dogs and pigs that live on land.
7. Wines, and as an obligatory precaution, beer (fuqāʿ), though drinking both is absolutely prohibited.
8. Based on obligatory precaution, non-believers except Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians.
9. Based on obligatory precaution, the sweat of an animal that feeds on human excrement and is accustomed to it.
Issue 56: If any of these impurities contacts a pure object and both or one of them is wet enough for moisture to transfer, the pure object becomes impure. If both are dry, or if the moisture is insufficient to transfer, the impurity does not spread. If an impure object comes into contact with another pure object under these conditions, the impurity transfers unless there are three or more intermediaries between the impurity and the pure object.
