Monday, May 18, 2015

ABSOLUTE WATER IN ABLUTION: Imam Shafei school

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
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Absolute water  (ماء مطلق) as it has been known together is one of the terms of ablution (not pillar of it). Taking ablution without using absolute water is judged invalid, as well as other cleanse related to worship, both the sunnah one and obligatory one.

Absolute water is pure water without frills said afterward, except frills based place. For example, sea water is an absolute water because frill of "sea" juxtaposed due he held at sea. It is different with rose water because frill of "rose" juxtaposed because of rose dissolved in it. [1]
In Fathul Qarib it was defined as[2]:
ما نزل من السماء أو نبع من الأرض على أي صفة كان من أصل الخلقة
It means: "Any water that descends from sky or comes from the earth with any form according to the origin of creation"

Absolute water is including these waters [3]:
1. water of sky
2. water of sea
3. water of river
4. water of well
5. water of fountain
6. water of snow
7. water of ice



Absolute water can be used for cleanse as long as it does not change in its properties and is not musta'mal/former.

Water changes in its properties when at senses or forecast, its taste, color or smell has been changed hardly, by an object mixed with it (called mukhtalith at fiqh), with the result that it cannot be seperated. It's except that the object is difficult to avoided, like objects take place of water channel. As for the changes that caused by the lack of use for a long time, objects that accompanied (in fiqh fan commonly referred to as mujāwir, namely when objects can be separated from the water like wood fragrance and oil), sea salt, or foliage that falls by itself, it does not change the absolute water, so it can still be used for ablution. [4]

To know the change in forecast, a comparison is required to estimate the changes. Forecast change is such a change caused by rose water that has lost all of its nature so that it becomes clear as absolute water. When that kind of rose water mixed with absolute water, how do you find out the severity of the changes in the absolute water? The trick is to compare other objects with rose water. If some other objects with certain levels can change absolute water severely then the rate with rose water is also considered changing the absolute water severely.

The changes referred to above is a change caused by a clean object (شيء طاهر). While the changes caused by impure, automatically the water cannot be used if it is below 2 qullah (though not changed) or there is a change in the slightest though (although the water exceed 2 qullah). [5]

Whereas the water is called musta'mal (been used) when it has been worn in obligatory cleanse (fardlu cleanse) in the form of removing impurity or unclean (hadats or najs).  This is true for water under 2 qullah (my teacher of fiqh call it as 1x1x1 meter). Water above 2 qullah can not be musta'mal.

Description: the musta'mal water mixed with absolute water under 2 qullah, its status equals the rose water that has lost all of its nature. So when the musta'mal water drips in an absolute water a bit, it's not to be said that it changes. But when the dripping is a lot, then musta'mal water considered to change the absolute one.

Wallahua’lam bishshawab…..

Bibliography
al-Malibari, Abdul Aziz, Fatch al-Mu’īn, Semarang: Karya Toha Putra, n.y.
al-Ghazzi, Ibnu Qasim, Fatch al-Qarīb al-Mujīb, Surabaya: Dār al-‘Ilm, n.y.
Syuja’, Abu, al-Taqrīb, Surabaya: Dār al-‘Ilm, n.y.
al-Haitami, Ibnu Hajar, al-Minhāj al-Qawīm, Semarang: al-Alawiyyah, n.y.



[1] Abdul Aziz al-Malibari, Fatch al-Mu’īn, (Semarang: Karya Toha Putra, n.y), pg. 4
[2] Ibnu Qasim al-Ghazzi, Fatch al-Qarīb al-Mujīb, (Surabaya: Dār al-‘Ilm, n.y), pg. 3
[3] Abu Syuja’, al-Taqrīb, (Surabaya: Dār al-‘Ilm, n.y), pg. 3
[4] Lihat Ibnu Hajar al-Haitami, al-Minhāj al-Qawīm, (Semarang: al-Alawiyyah, n.y), pg 4-5
[5] Lihat Abdul Aziz al-Malibari, Fatch al-Mu’īn, (Semarang: Karya Toha Putra, n.y), pg. 4-5

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