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If a washing machine washes the clothes twice, is this sufficient to cleanse theclothes of any najaasah?

18-03-2000

Question 6725

Washing machines wash the clothes twice. Is this sufficient to cleanse the clothes of najaasah?

Answer

Praise be to Allah.

We put this question to Shaykh ‘Abd-Allah ibn Jibreen (may Allah preserve him), who answered as follows:

 The ruling has to do with the najaasah itself. Once the najaasah is removed from the clothes, they become taahir (pure). Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah said that there is no specific number of washings required for najaasah to be removed.

 And Allah knows best.

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