{"id":40420,"date":"2026-02-03T14:52:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=40420"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:48:46","slug":"ruling-on-doubts-about-urine-impurity-transferring-to-clothes-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/ruling-on-doubts-about-urine-impurity-transferring-to-clothes-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruling On Doubts About Urine Impurity Transferring To Clothes &#038; Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 08746<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by Alimah Aisha Qureshi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">I am someone who deals with OCD. A few days ago, I had to stay in the car for a long time and had a very strong urge to urinate and was in pain. However, I held it in u till I arrived at home and then went to the washroom. But when I went to the washroom, I saw some urine drops on my underwear. I only changed my pants and underwear but didn\u2019t pay attention to the seat which I sat on. Today when I sat there on the same seat in the car. My clothes (pants) were wet because I had done wudu before sitting on the seat. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Now as I sit on that same seat (the one I am doubting has urine impurity), I am feeling that the seat may have been impure from before and now since my clothes are damp\/wet the impurity has transferred to my current clothes and if I touch my clothes around that area (the back of the clothes), then my hands will also become impure or any one area that I sit on. What is the correct thing to assume? Should I clean the seat and my clothes and is every other area which I sat on and my hands impure now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">As someone dealing with OCD, particularly around issues of cleanliness and purity, it can be extremely difficult to distinguish between genuine concern and baseless doubts. The situation you are in involved in of possible urine contamination on a car seat has you worried, including whether impurity transferred from old stains to wet clothes, and then possibly to the hands and other surfaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">If a person is in a state of purity, that purity remains unless there is certain evidence of impurity. Merely doubting whether the seat was impure is not sufficient to declare it impure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Impurity must be visible, smelly, or otherwise confirmed. If there\u2019s only a possibility or suspicion, you are to treat the surface as pure. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Therefore, following baseless doubts, leads to hardship and deviation from the intended balance of the Shariah. Islam does not burden a person with what is not clear or proven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">There is\u00a0no need\u00a0to clean the car seat, wash the clothes, or purify any other area or part of the body. The initial change of clothes was sufficient, and no certainty of impurity exists on the car seat or clothing afterward. Islam does not require one to act on doubts especially when they originate from OCD. Instead, it commands us to live by\u00a0certainty, to\u00a0avoid hardship, and to trust that Allah does not ask from us more than we can bear. Therefore, it is correct to assume everything remains pure, and no further purification is necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u0627\u0644\u064a\u0642\u064a\u0646 \u0644\u0627 \u064a\u0632\u0648\u0644 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0634\u0643<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Qaawaid al Fiqhiya<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u0642\u064e\u0627\u0644\u064e \u062d\u064e\u0641\u0650\u0638\u0652\u062a\u064f \u0645\u0650\u0646\u0652 \u0631\u064e\u0633\u064f\u0648\u0644\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u0650 \u0635\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0639\u0644\u064a\u0647 \u0648\u0633\u0644\u0645 \u200f &#8220;\u200f \u062f\u064e\u0639\u0652 \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064e\u0631\u0650\u064a\u0628\u064f\u0643\u064e \u0625\u0650\u0644\u064e\u0649 \u0645\u064e\u0627 \u0644\u0627\u064e \u064a\u064e\u0631\u0650\u064a\u0628\u064f\u0643\u064e \u0641\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0635\u0651\u0650\u062f\u0652\u0642\u064e \u0637\u064f\u0645\u064e\u0623\u0652\u0646\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e\u0629\u064c \u0648\u064e\u0625\u0650\u0646\u0651\u064e \u0627\u0644\u0652\u0643\u064e\u0630\u0650\u0628\u064e \u0631\u0650\u064a\u0628\u064e\u0629\u064c\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2518<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Only Allah knows best.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Written by Alimah Aisha Qureshi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 08746 &nbsp; &nbsp; Answered by Alimah Aisha Qureshi &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; I am someone who deals with OCD. 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