How do I know if bodily fluid is sweat from discharge from the penis or anus?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch 

 

Question Summary

How do I know if bodily fluid is sweat from discharge from the penis or anus?

Question Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

The basis is that everything is pure until proven impure. [Ibn Nujaym, al-Asbah wa al-Nazair]

That said, purification is based on reasonable surety or certainty. Doubts, misgivings, and conjectures are always to be ignored. You are not accountable to act on anything less than reasonable surety.

Consider the discharge as sweat. Sweat is pure. Remember, you are not required to smell anything.

 

Please see the following links as well :

https://seekersguidance.org/answers/hanafi-fiqh/transfer-filth-occur/

https://seekersguidance.org/answers/hanafi-fiqh/ocd-causing-hardship-impurities/

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.