There are different types of water, learning about which would help us better learn the related issues.

Issue 82: Water is either “Mudhaf” or “Mutlaq”.

“Mudhaf” water refers to the juice or extract of something like melon juice or rose-water, or water which contains some substance mixed in it like muddy water.

“Mutlaq” water is pure and unmixed.

Issue 83: Mudhaf water might clean dirt, but never purifies the impurities; hence it is not a purifier.

If Mudhaf water reaches any impurity, it will become impure, even if the impurity is small and the Mudhaf water is large in amount, and the smell, color or the taste of the water does not change.

-Ablutions (Wudhu) and ritual bathing (Ghusl) performed with Mudhaf water, is void.

Mutlaq water has five different types:

1- Qualeel (under-Kurr) water

2- Running water

3- Well water

4- Kurr water

5- Rain water

-Rain water is the water which falls as rain from the sky.

-Running water is the water which gushes forth from and flows out of the earth, like spring water or the running water in a subterranean canal. If the gushing water does not flow on or under the surface of the earth, it is accounted well water.

-The water which neither gushes forth from the earth nor falls from the sky can be either Kurr or Qualeel water depending on its quantity.

Issue 84: Kurr water is the amount of water which fills a container with length, breadth and depth of three and a half spans each, i.e., 42.5 cubic spans in dimension, and weighs nearly 377.419 kilos.