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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books A Brief of Islamic Law Exceptional Cases In the following three cases, the prayer offered by a person will be valid, even if his body ordress be Najis: * If his body or dress is stained with the blood discharged from a wound or a sore on his body. * If his body or dress is stained with blood, spread over a space lesser thana Dirham (which, as an obligatory precaution, is equal to the upper joint of the thumb).

* If he has no alternative but to offer prayer with Najis body or dress. Further, there is one situation in which, if the dress of one who prays is Najis, theSalat will be valid. And that is, when small clothes like socks, skull-caps are Najis. If the body or the dress of a person wishing to pray is stained with blood from wound or sore etc, he can praySalat with that blood as long as the wound or the sore has not healed up.

And the same applies to pus, which may flow out with blood, or any medicine which became Najis, when applied to the wound or the sore. If blood on the dress or the body of a person who is praying, is equal to or more than a Dirham, and it originates from a small cut or wound which can be healed easily, and which can be washed clean, then hisSalat is void.

If any part of the body, or the dress, which is away from the wound, becomes Najis owing to the fluid which oozes out from the wound, it is not permissible to offer prayer with it. However, if a part of the body or dress around the wound becomes NAjis, owing to suppuration, there is not harm in offering prayer with it.

If the body or dress of a person is stained with blood from piles (whether internal or external), or from a wound which is within one's mouth, nose etc, he can offer prayer with that blood. If the clothes or the body of a person praying, is stained with the blood of Haydh, however little, theSalat will be void.

And as a precaution, the same rule applies to the blood of Nifas, Istihadah and the blood from sources which are essentially Najis, like a pig, a carcass, or an animal whose meat is Halal (allowed). As regards other bloods, like the blood from a human body, or from an animal whose meat is lawful to eat, there is no harm in offering prayer with them, even if they are found at several places on the dress or the body, provided that, when added together, their area is less than that of a Dirham.