The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No. 99- If a lamb or kid dies before it is able to graze, the rennet found in its stomach is ṭāhir, but its exterior must be rinsed and made ṭāhir, as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.103- If a halal meat animal is slaughtered in accordance with sharia, and the usual amount of blood goes out, the blood still left in its body is ṭāhir, unless the blood leaving the body goes back in because of the animal’s head having been at a higher level at the time of slaughtering. In the case of the blood going back into the body of the animal due to breathing, as an obligatory precaution, it is necessary to avoid that blood.

Issue No. 118- The hands and clothes of those who keep a dog in their house or eat pork are treated as ṭāhir as long as one is not certain that they are najis.

Issue No. 119- Prayer performed in a house where a dog has being kept is not void.

Issue No. 120- Clothes made from the hide or fur of dog or pig are najis and prayer in them is invalid.

Issue No. 121- There is no problem in keeping a dog for different purposes such as hunting, guarding a house, an orchard, or a flock, and for police purposes, although they are still najis.

Issue No. 122- It is not permissible, as an obligatory precaution, to keep dogs for entertainment or as a pet, if they do not have any benefits such as guarding a house or flock, hunting or similar purposes.

Issue No. 124- Medical and industrial alcohol about which one is not certain whether or not are taken from an intoxicating liquid, are ṭāhir. Furthermore, the colognes, perfumes, and medicines that are mixed with medical or industrial alcohol are ṭāhir.

Issue No. 123- All alcoholic beverages which intoxicate a person are najis as an obligatory precaution, but narcotics like hemp and hashish which cause intoxication but are not originally liquid, are ṭāhir, even when water is mixed with them and they become liquid. However, it is still haram to use them.

Issue No. 126- If grape juice ferments by itself (the sort of fermentation, which is usually the preliminary stage of becoming an alcoholic beverage), it will be najis and haram. However, if it is fermented by fire or something else, it is not najis, but haram to drink, and the same ruling applies to the juice of dates, currants and raisins as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No. 128- The alcoholic beverage called beer that is extracted from barley is haram and its najāsah is like that of wine. However, the drink extracted from barley for medicinal properties which is called ‘malt beverage’ and is not intoxicating at all is ṭāhir and halal.

Issue No. 129-Brewer's yeast which is used in medicine and is neither intoxicating nor liquid, is ṭāhir and Halal.