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Blood (in fiqh)

الدم (في الفقه)

In fiqh blood is the red fluid that runs in the veins of living creatures; jurists also use the word for retaliation, for the sacrificial offering, and for the blood of menstruation, irregular bleeding and postnatal bleeding. 1 The jurists agree that blood is forbidden, impure and not to be eaten or used; they differ on how little of it is excused. 1 Its rules are spread across ablution, impurity, prayer, menstruation, fasting, pilgrimage, food, slaughter, the aqiqa sacrifice and retaliation. 2

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Summary

In fiqh, blood is the red fluid that runs in the veins of living creatures. Jurists also use the word for retaliation, for the sacrificial offering, and for the blood of menstruation, irregular bleeding and postnatal bleeding. 1 The jurists agree that blood is forbidden, impure and may not be eaten or used; they differ on how little of it is excused and on how to define little. 1

Related terms

Sadid is the thin fluid of a wound mixed with blood; some say it is pus mixed with blood. 1 Qayh is pure pus with no blood in it; some say it is a watery pus with a trace of blood. 1

Where the rules appear

Bleeding breaks ablution; blood is impure and must be removed from the worshipper's body, clothes and place of prayer; blood of menstruation, irregular bleeding or postnatal bleeding is treated under those entries. 2 Bleeding is among the things that break the fast. 2 As a sacrificial offering owed for breaking a pilgrimage rule, blood is treated under the obligation of the offering for enjoined pilgrimage and combined pilgrimage, and for one who is prevented. 2 The jurists also treat blood in food, slaughter, the aqiqa sacrifice and retaliation. 2

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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)· Democracy and the Sharia — compatibility and conflict· Fatwa on the satellite channels — its benefit and harm· Secularism and Islam — conflict or concord· Stoning (rajm) as a penalty for zina· Allusion to a proposal during the waiting period· Aman (safe-conduct granted to enemies in war)· Amana (trust, deposit and what is entrusted)

Sources

  1. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8233
  2. al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.8234
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Ahliyya (legal capacity: to have rights and duties, and to act; its stages from the womb to full maturity, and what impairs it)

Ahliyya is lexically suitability, and it is of two kinds: capacity to have rights and duties, the capacity of liability; and capacity to act, that is to perform acts recognised by the law. Its bearer passes through the stages of the foetus, childhood, discernment, puberty and maturity. Liability is complete from birth and incomplete for the foetus; the capacity to act is partial at discernment and full with puberty and reason. It is affected by heavenly impediments such as madness, imbecility, sleep, fainting, illness, slavery, menstruation, childbirth and death, and by acquired ones such as ignorance, drunkenness, jest, folly, travel, error and coercion.