Al-Uthaymeen states that Kuffaar are not physically
impure.
If a person asks about the Aayah:
‘Verily, the Mushrikun (polytheists,
pagans, idolaters, disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah, and in the Message of
Muhammad
) are Najasun (impure)’ [9:28]
Then the answer is: impurity here refers to figurative
impurity, because Allaah has permitted us to interact with the Kuffar and even
marry from the People of the Book, and we haven’t been commanded to purify
ourselves after interacting with them.
Some of the scholars stated that the Kuffar
become impure at death, they argued:
-the generality of the Aayah above.
-The Hadith quoted above refers to believers
alone.
-Their deceased are not washed because the
entity of humans cant be purified by washing; if
an impurity and the object
cant be detached then washing it wont benefit it, so the Kaafir being
figuratively impure isn’t correct rather impurity refers to the Kaafir human
entirely.
In response we can say:
-impurity refers to figurative impurity because
the body of the Kaafir is not physically impure, as previously exampled above.
-As for stating the Hadith above only refers to
the believers, then this is not true either practically as exampled above.
-Not washing the deceased is not because they
are impure but because out of rebuke towards them.
ash-Sharh al-Mumti 1/448
And Allah knows best
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