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Humans Never Become Impure [Part 20]
Humans don’t become impure due to death [end of
text from Zaad al-Mustaqni’].
Al-Uthaymeen explains that this includes all
humans; Muslims, Kuffaar, male, female etc.
The evidence for this includes:
-The generality of the Hadit, ‘The believer is
never impure’.
-The Prophet said, ‘Wash the deceased with
water and lotus leaves.’
-The command of the Prophet to wash his daughter
when she passed away.
All of this shows that the body itself is not
impure because if something was physically impure, then washing it wouldn’t purify
it.
For example, washing a dog would never purify
it.
Washing the deceased here is to remove anything
impure off the body, but not that the body itself is impure.
ash-Sharh al-Mumti, 1/447-448
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