Asalamualaikum Mr. Umer Qureshi,

I agree with Dhruv here that washing and changing bed sheets, blankets, etc. is very difficult every time time mani is released (such as on a weekly basis). However, keeping your explanation in mind, wouldn’t there still be impurity remaining on the bedsheets/blankets if we don’t wash them right away? Or is it because these stains have dried out and are no longer visible anyway, which means that they will not affect the clothing one wears when going to sleep. Therefore, the validity of prayer would not be affected. Is this correct?

JazakAllah

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi. And what about in the case of the questioner, where they’ve written that they’re sure the discharge touched the bed sheet but they cannot see anything? I guess this goes back to our discussion on microscopic impurity which undetectable. But in this case, would the individual be required to immediately check if any stains made their way onto the bedsheet before they dry out and are no longer visible? Obviously this would be a very strange thing to do if one is preoccupied as stated in the question. But in the case that one wakes up sees the discharge on the outside of their garment touching the bedsheet/blanket – do they have to immediately check to see if any stains are visible on the bedsheet/blanket?

So in this case, if I don’t see any spots then I don’t need to bother cleaning anything, right? Because let’s say I wake up and realize I need to perform ghusl. I might notice that there is impurity on my garment that has touched a blanket or bedsheet, etc. But at that point, my priority isn’t to check and see if impurity has spread. It would be to perform ghusl because I’m someone that really, really dislikes being unclean. So in general, it’s okay if the stain has dried out? Or are these kinds of stains not the type of dry out in the first place?

I mean to say that a person won’t always be in such a situation where they can confirm whether impurity has spread to a detectable level right away, either due to forgetting or because of circumstance. If they come back and don’t see anything, can they just leave it due to uncertainty?

And let’s say I do notice a stain. But it later dries out. Do I need to clean this up or again, it’s not a matter of validity of Salah?

And when you say it is just a matter of staying clean, we are talking specifically about the bedsheet/blanket, right? Because that shouldn’t be able to make me impure if I can’t even see it, etc.

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi. So in summary, if I don’t see any stains that I can identify and clean up, then I am okay to just ignore it and reuse the bedsheet/blanket. This is whether I saw them before and they have dried up to the point of being undetectable, or because I didn’t bother to look initially until many hours later so I don’t know if they were ever there. Or perhaps the stains never were there at an observable level anyway. Whatever the case is, because I don’t see any stains to clean up, I don’t need to put myself in hardship and have the bedsheet/blanket cleaned up. It’s a matter of Tazkiya and will not affect prayer, since I am not contaminated. Also, I don’t need to go out of my way to find any stains, only if I notice them do I act. Am I correct in my understanding?

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi. So this means all of my points in that paragraph are correct?

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi. This makes life a lot easier. Wish I’d asked earlier.

Asalamualaikum Mr. Umer Qureshi,

Something else that I was wondering is if one emits mani and knows that it penetrated their trousers, are they now obligated to check their blanket/bedsheet to see if the mani is present to a degree where it can spread onto them before using the bedsheet/blanket? Or is this only a matter of them noticing this, and so checking is not an obligation at all?

JazakAllah

And this is in knowing that the impurity on the trousers touched the bedsheet/blanket, etc.

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi,

But I mean in the case that one is certain the impurity on the trouser has touched the bedsheet, but is not sure if any visible stains are left behind on the bedsheet. Because we discussed that if there aren’t any visible stains, then cleaning the bedsheet is a matter of personal preference due to hardship and because a person would not be contaminated in such a situation from the bedsheet.

So in this case, is the individual obligated to look around for visible stains? Or it’s a matter of them noticing such stains and so they don’t need to change/wash the bedsheet unless they notice such stains?

JazakAllah

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi,

For a bedsheet, that’s not too difficult. But for a blanket, it would be hard to look all around for stains. Do you have any advice?

Also, is a quick glance okay or do I need to check thoroughly?

JazakAllah

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi,

1.) And do you have any advice on how one should look for stains on the blanket? Is it enough to take a quick glance at the area that one feels may have made contact?

2.) In situation where one feels that impurity on their trouser would not leave behind a stain on the bedsheet/blanket, are they will obliged to check these things even if they know for certain that the impurity on the trouser came into contact with them?

3.) In a situation where the stain is visible but dried out, is the person required to change bedsheet/blanket, or does it become a matter of personal preference at this point since the impurity should not be able to spread onto the person or their clothes?

JazakAllah!

JazakAllah Mr. Umer Qureshi.