QUESTION:

As Salaamu Alaikum,

  1. Sitting with wet clothes in a car (such as after rain) where the car seats are made of pig leather and the glosses have pig ingredient will there be a transfer of impurity onto the wet clothes regardless of whether the heated seats are turned on or not?

 

  1. Is washing clothes with pig contamination with soap powder in a washing machine with one rinse cycle sufficient for the clothes to be pure to pray in?

 

  1. In the above case where soap remains at the end of the wash cycle, will clothes be pure?

 

  1. Clothes with pig impurity and pure clothes put in the washing machine together, will all clothes come out pure or will the pure clothes become impure?

 

  1. After pig contaminated clothes has been washed in the washing machine, is the washing machine drum pure or does the drum need to be washed?

Awaiting a reply

Jazaak Allahu Khairan.

 

ANSWER:

Wa Alaikum As Salaam,

With respect to what you have asked, the answers are as follows: –

  1. The impurity of the pig leather will not be transferred to the wet clothes seeing that the leather car seat is dry. It does not matter if the heated seats are turned on or not (Radd Al Muhtar 6/733 H.M)

 

  1. One rinse with soap powder/detergent in a washing machine will be sufficient to clean and purify the clothes when the soap powder on the clothes is washed off (rinsed off) with a rinse of clean water. Hence, whatever pig contamination may be on the clothes (if any), it will be removed, and the clothes will be pure to perform Salah in (Fatawa Darul Uloom Zakariya 1/716 Zam Zam Karachi; Kitab An Nawazil 3/39)

 

  1. If the clothes are washed – off with clean water as it occurs in the second rinse (after it was washed with soap powder/detergent in the first rinse), then the clothes will be pure. If, in this case, a light/little soap powder remains on some clothes, then this will be clean/pure like the other clothes. However, it will not be sufficient to make the clothes clean/pure (if it is impure), with only the first rinse with soap powder. It must be washed – off (rinsed off) with clean water. (Kitab An Nawazil 3/39)

 

  1. If you are certain that there is pig impurity in the clothes, then these should be washed and rinsed separately from the clean/pure clothes. Both must not be placed together in the washing machine. If the clothes you are referring to is the wet clothes which touched the dry car seat made of pig leather, then these clothes are not impure with pig impurity, since this impurity did not transfer to the wet clothes. As such, all the clothes in the washing machine will come out pure.

 

  1. After pig contaminated clothes have been washed in the washing machine, then the washing machine drum will be clean/pure and there will be no need to wash it. The reason is that the soap powder/detergent which was used to wash the clothes, also washed the machine, and after this, the clean water which was used in the washing machine to rinse the clothes, also rinsed out the machine. But, as I mentioned before, the wet clean clothes which touched the dry leather seat in the car did not become impure by touching the leather seat. So, there is no reason to be worried about whether the machine drum will be pure or impure.

 

And Allah Knows best

Mufti Waseem Khan

17/10/2024