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Fatwa CenterVaginal discharges are presumably impure
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Assalamu alaikum, Thank you for responding me back. Sheikh I have written you about ruling on leukorrhea. Sheikh I have a lot of leukorrhea which I always see on my cloths, and you sent me link for 4 different questions and thier anwsers regard this matter. Sheikh I am still confused and can not come up to a conclusion that which category does particularly leukorrhea falls in after reading the answers. Also, some websites like, Islamqa.org/hanafi / darulifta... says leukorrhea is impure and cloths should be washed or changed before each prayer, some other alim said it is pure and cloths should not be washed or changed only wadhoo has to be repeated before each prayer.
Please do not reffer me to previously answered questions. Would you please clarify particularly ruling on leukorrhea. I would really appreciate your help on that. Thank you. Allah rewards you the best.
Answer
All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.
We believe that the Fataawa 82539, 91930, 107530 and 136797 which we already referred you to are enough to clear your confusion. We explained to you that there are two kinds of discharges. One is released from the bladder and it is impure, and the other is released from the vagina and it is pure according to the view we believe to be the most valid one. If you do not know where those discharges are released from, then the presumption is that a discharge from the vagina or the anus is impure.
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen 
said, citing the evidence of the scholars who consider the discharges of the vagina to be impure: "They rationalized that everything that exits the vagina or anus is presumably impure, unless there is evidence that it is pure." [End of quote]
If the impurity occurs frequently, and you get it once or more than once a day, then it is considered a constant invalidation of ritual purity and it is excused according to some jurists due to hardship. Hence, according to them, it is not compulsory to change the pad or the clothes, or to purify it or to purify the body; Ad-Dardeer from the Maaliki School, said in his commentary to Khaleel ibn Is-haaq's Mukhtasar: "What is difficult is excused, such as constant incontinence; any impurity that is difficult to avoid is excused for the prayer and for entering the mosque … and what is meant by incontinence is: what exits by itself involuntarily, such as urine, Mathy (prostatic fluid), semen and feces, that exits by itself from the private parts or anus; it is excused and it is not compulsory to wash it if it happens even once a day. " [End of quote]
Therefore, you may act according to this opinion, especially if you suffer from obsessive whispers regarding purity.
Allaah Knows best.
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