مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٤٥ - PURIFYING THINGS

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XI. DISAPPEARANCE OF A MUSLIM
٢٢٧. When the body, dress, household utensil or carpet or any other similar thing in the possession of a Muslim becomes impure and thereafter that Muslim disappearsthe thing in question can be treated to be pure when the following six conditions are fulfilled: (i) The Muslim should consider impure the thing which has made his body ordress impure. In case, therefore, his dress comes in contact with the wetness of the body of an infidel and he does not consider it to be impure that dress cannot be treatedto be pure after his disappearance. (ii) That Muslim should know that his body or dress has touched an impure thing. (iii) That the man should have been seen using that thingfor a purpose for which use of a pure thing is necessary. For example, he should have been seen offering prayers with that dress. (iv) There should be a probability of thefact that the Muslim knows that the purity of that thing is necessary for the purpose for which he is using it. For example, if he does not know that the dress of one whooffers prayers should be pure and he offers prayers with an impure dress that dress cannot be considered to be pure. (v) There should be a probability of the fact that theMuslim has purified the impure thing. Hence, if it is certain that he did not purify that thing it cannot be treated to be pure. Furthermore, if that Muslim does notdifferentiate between pure and impure things it is difficult to consider that thing to be pure.
(vi) The Muslim should be adult and should be able to differentiate between purity and impurity.
٢٢٨. If a person becomes sure that a thing which was impure