{"id":8019,"date":"2015-04-03T18:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2015-04-03T18:09:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:09:04","slug":"touching-a-pigskin-leather-jacket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/touching-a-pigskin-leather-jacket\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching a Pigskin Leather Jacket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: 13px; text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 01763<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><strong>Answered by&nbsp;<\/strong>Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Question:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">If in the saff during congregational salah someone next to me standing is wearing a pig skin leather jacket and this jacket does touch my clothes during the salah, is my salah invalidated? And what if it does my skin?<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<pre style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\r\n&nbsp;<strong style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.6em;\">Answer:<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p style=\"font-size: 13px;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bismillah\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6518 alignnone\" height=\"50\" src=\"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Bismillah.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"267\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Firstly, you should not put yourself into unnecessary difficulty and doubts by assuming the jacket to be made from pig skin.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">There is a principle in Islamic jurisprudence which is:<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;Certainty is not lifted by a doubt.&rdquo; (Al Ashbah Wan Nadhair p.60)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Regarding your question, if the jacket is really made out of pig skin, then your clothes would only become impure if there is moisture on it. Otherwise, your clothes will remain pure. (Fatawa Hindiyyah p.48 v.1)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Finally, if the impurity is more than a Dirham then your Salah would be invalidated. (Nurul Idaah p.51 &ndash;p.54)<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Only Allah Knows Best<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 01763 Answered by&nbsp;Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah Question: If in the saff during congregational salah someone next to me standing is wearing a pig&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}