• And they have openly shown us enmity and harm *

Meaning: the one who separates.

Meaning: Water is not mentioned except as appended to that which is mixed with it in most cases. This description serves as a qualification to exclude that which is appended to its location and place of storage, such as cat water (water from a vessel used by a cat) and well water; for if it is removed from its location, the attribution usually ceases. Likewise, that whose odor has changed slightly is generally not appended [to another name].

Al-Qadi said: This is a qualification to exclude that which has been changed by earth, because it clears from it, and its name separates from its name.

This issue has indicated several rulings:

Among them: The permissibility of purification with any water described by this characteristic he mentioned, regardless of its original state of creation, whether in terms of heat, cold, sweetness, or salinity, whether it descended from the sky or sprang from the earth, in a sea, river, well, pool, or otherwise. This is evidenced by the saying of Allah the Almighty: "And He sends down upon you from the sky, rain by which to purify you" (8:11), and His saying, glory be to Him: "And We sent down from the sky, pure water" (25:48), and the saying of the Prophet -may Allah bless him and grant him peace-: "Water is pure; nothing makes it impure," and his statement regarding the sea: "Its water is a purifier, and its dead creatures are lawful."

This is the position of the general body of scholars, except that it has been narrated from Abdullah ibn Umar and Abdullah ibn