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Problems of filth: Filth spilling from the birth tub  

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Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Someone was using a birth tub while in labour (at home). The birth tub had well over 300 litres of water in it. While in the tub, amniotic fluid came out for sure. The water from the tub was spilled in the kitchen and many people walked from the kitchen to the rest of the house…

The question is, is it filthy? What should we do? I don’t know where it spilled nor where it spread. If it spilled in the kitchen and one walked into and out of the kitchen, that would spread bits and pieces of it throughout the house correct?

Answer:
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,

The operating certainty about things is purity. This is not lifted unless one is certain—with proof—that something has been specifically been made filthy.

As such, the rest of the house remains considered pure. The same applies to the kitchen floor itself, aside from the areas you are certain (or reasonably sure) became affected by the spills.

It would be from reasonable caution to wash the kitchen floor. Doing the same for the rest of the house would be excessive, and unnecessary.

And Allah alone gives success.

Wassalam. 

Faraz Rabbani

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