Question: What are prohibited for a junub person?
ANSWER
A junub person can say the Basmala, prayers, dhikr (for example, saying Lâ ilaha illallah), and salawât. Furthermore, one can also recite such âyats as the “Rabbanâ âtinâ” with the intention of saying du’â [supplication]. Simply, one cannot hold the Mushaf, cannot read the Qur’ân al-karîm, and cannot enter a mosque. It is makrûh to shave the groin, to get a haircut, and to cut the nails. However, when a woman is menstruating, these are not makrûh.
Eating, drinking, and suckling a baby when one is junub
Question: Is it permissible for a junub person to eat, to drink, to go out, or for a junub woman to suckle her baby?
ANSWER
It is permissible to eat or drink after washing the mouth. It is permissible to go out, as well. A woman can suckle her baby after washing her breasts. But one must make a ghusl before namâz time is over. It is harâm [prohibited] to spend time as a junub any longer. If any one, whether practises namâzes or not, spends a prayer’s time junub, one will be tormented bitterly.
A junub person’s sweat and semen
Question: After experiencing a nocturnal emission or having sexual intercourse, is it necessary to get changed and to wash all those clothes? Can we perform a namâz with clothes smeared with our sweat when we are junub?
ANSWER
The sweat of a junub person is not najs. You can perform namâz with those clothes.
Semen is considered najs in the Hanafî, but it is clean in the other three madhhabs. However, according to a report in the Mâlikî, it is considered najs.
People who have had a nocturnal emission do not have to change their clothes. It suffices to wash only the place smeared with semen. If dried semen is rubbed off its place, that place becomes clean; one can perform namâz by wearing it.
Janâbat and waswasas
Question: When I become junub, I feel that anything I touch becomes impure, so I am deeply distressed. Is it a waswasa?
ANSWER
It is a waswasa. Wherever a junub person touches does not become impure.





