Malfuzat - Volume IX — Page 306
306 MALFŪZĀT - ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF URDU VOLUME 9 recited [aloud]. Other prayers that reflect a personal liking or feeling should just be recited in the heart. Fatwa in Principle for Purifying a Well The question was presented: What is the directive of Your Holiness about the edict that so many buckets of water should be taken out from a well when a rat, hen, goat, or a person dies inside it? Previously, our practice was to consider the water pure unless its colour, smell, or taste changed. The Promised Messiahas responded: My belief is only that which has been mentioned in the Hadith. I simply do not know, nor does my jurisdiction govern the number of how many buckets to take out if this animal falls in or how many if another falls in. It was submitted, 'Your Holiness has directed to abide by Hanafi fiqh [jurisprudence] when the authentic Sunnah [Practice of the Prophet sas] is not known. The Promised Messiahas replied: When is there any such determination in the prominent works of Fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence]; but, yes, it is written in Nijāt- ul-Mu'minin. However, in that it is also written: سر ٹوئے وچہ دے کے بیٹھ نماز کرے ]Sit and offer Prayer inserting your head into a ditch[. Does anyone act upon this and is it allowed whereas Prayer is not permitted for women during their menstruation and par- turition. Consider this issue in the same vein too.