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Special religious instructions exist as to which things are legally clean and which are unclean. We reproduce below some of these instructions from the book entitled ` Articles of Islamic Acts '. Some unclean things are as follows: The urine and the excrement of man and all the animals, the meat of which is legally inedible, and which have gushing blood (that is their blood gushes forth when they are slaughtered or a vein of theirs is opened).

The semen, the dead body and the blood of man and every animal having gushing blood, irrespective of the fact whether its meat is or is not legally edible. (Only human corpse becomes clean after having been washed ceremonially). The dog and the pig which live on land. Their hair and all the fluids secreted by them are also unclean. Wine and all other intoxicants which flow automatically.

If a clean thing comes in contact with an unclean thing while one or both of them are wet and the dampness of either percolates through the other, the clean thing also becomes unclean. The unclean food cannot become clean by heating or boiling. It is forbidden to eat or drink an unclean thing. It is also forbidden to feed it to someone else, even to a child. It is forbidden to make unclean a sheet of paper on which the name of Allah or a verse of the Qur'an is written.

If it gets unclean, it should be purified with water immediately. It is forbidden to make unclean the floor, the ceiling, the roof and the walls of a masjid. If any part of a masjid is found to be unclean, the filth should be removed forthwith. The dress of a person offering prayers must be: (a) clean, (b) lawful, (c) not containing any part of a dead body in its texture, (d) not containing any part of an animal legally inedible, (e) not made of pure silk, and (f) not containing gold filaments.

(The last two conditions apply to males only who must not adorn themselves with ornaments made of gold).