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 "id": "concept/raiha-fiqh",
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 "slug": "raiha-fiqh",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الرائحة",
  "en": "Smell (raiha) in the rulings: purity, pilgrim, mosques, harm, the drinker and the wife",
  "ur": "بو (فقہی احکام)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الرائحة في اللغة النسيم طيبا كان أو نتنا، وهي عرض يُدرك بحاسة الشم، وقيل لا يطلق اسم الريح إلا على الطيب. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564} وتختلف أحكام الرائحة باختلاف أبواب الفقه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564} فإذا غيّرت النجاسة أو المخالط أحد أوصاف الماء زالت طهوريته عند جمهور الفقهاء، وعند الحنفية لا تزول ما لم يزل طبع الماء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} ويحرم على المحرم استعمال ما تُقصد رائحته من الطيب، ولا يحرم ما لا تُقصد رائحته. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} ويُستحب تطييب المساجد، ويُصان من الروائح الكريهة كالثوم والبصل. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566} ولا يثبت حد الشرب بوجود رائحة الخمر عند أكثر أهل العلم، ويثبت عند المالكية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567} وللزوج منع زوجته مما يتأذى من رائحته. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}",
  "en": "Smell is an accident perceived by the sense of smell, whether pleasant or foul; the word rih is used by some only for a pleasant scent. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564} Its ruling changes with the chapter of law. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564} If an impurity or a mixed substance changes the smell of water, most jurists say the water loses its purifying power, while the Hanafis say it does not unless its nature as water is lost. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} A pilgrim in the state of ihram may not use scents whose smell is intended, but fruit with a pleasant smell is not forbidden. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} Mosques are to be perfumed and kept free of foul smells such as garlic and onion, and a person with such a smell is kept from the congregation. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566} The smell of wine on a drinker's breath does not prove the hadd penalty in the view of most jurists, but the Malikis accept it. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567} A husband may forbid his wife what gives him an unpleasant smell, and he may require her to remove foul odours from her body and clothes. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}",
  "ur": "رائحہ سے مراد نسیم ہے، خواہ خوشبو ہو یا بدبو، اور اس کے احکام ابواب کے لحاظ سے مختلف ہیں۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564}"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "law-and-courts"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "legal",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الموسوعة الفقهية الكويتية، نسخة نور بوك، مدخل «رائحة»، ص 8564-8567 من المسح (الأرقام المطبوعة ص 40-43)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "mawsua-w05-batch21"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; headword read in full on scan pp.8564-8567 (next heading رابغ on p.8567). Cross-references (إحرام، مياه، جلالة، نكاح، سكر) not drafted. Urdu is a one-line draft."
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الرائحة في اللغة النسيم طيبا كان أو نتنا، وهي عرض يُدرك بحاسة الشم، وقيل لا يُطلق اسم الريح إلا على الطيب. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الحكم الإجمالي",
     "markdown": "تختلف أحكام الرائحة باختلاف أبواب الفقه. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "أثرها في الطهارة",
     "markdown": "إذا غيّرت النجاسة أحد أوصاف الماء، زالت طهوريته عند الجمهور لأنه لم يعد ماء مطلقا، وعند الحنفية لا تزول ما لم يزل طبع الماء. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565}\nأما ما يجاور الماء ولا يخالطه فلا يسلبه الطهورية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الطيب في حق المحرم",
     "markdown": "يحرم على المحرم استعمال ما تُقصد رائحته كالمسك والعود، ولا يحرم ما لا تُقصد رائحته كالتفاح والأترج. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الروائح في المساجد",
     "markdown": "يُستحب تطييب المساجد وصيانتها من الروائح الكريهة كالثوم والبصل، ويُكره دخولها لمن أكل ذلك، وأجاز المالكية إخراج الريح للحاجة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "التلف بسبب الرائحة",
     "markdown": "من اتخذ في داره معملا ذا رائحة مؤذية فأتلفت شخصا ضمن لمخالفة العادة. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ثبوت حد الشرب",
     "markdown": "لا يثبت حد الشرب عند أكثر أهل العلم بوجود رائحة الخمر، لاحتمال المضمضة أو الإكراه أو شراب آخر، ويثبت عند المالكية. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "لحم الجلالة وألبانها",
     "markdown": "يُكره عند جمهور الفقهاء أكل لحم الجلالة وشرب لبنها إذا تغيرت رائحتهما بالنجاسة، وقال الشافعية بالتحريم. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حق الزوج",
     "markdown": "للزوج منع زوجته مما يتأذى من رائحته، وإلزامها بإزالة الروائح الكريهة من بدنها وثوبها. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/raiha-fiqh",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Smell (raiha) is an accident perceived by the sense of smell, pleasant or foul; some use the word rih only for a pleasant scent. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "General ruling",
     "markdown": "The ruling depends on the chapter of law in which the smell matters. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Purity of water",
     "markdown": "If an impurity changes one of the attributes of water, most jurists say the water loses its purifying power, since it is no longer water in the plain sense; the Hanafis say it keeps it unless its nature as water is lost. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565}\nA scent that merely passes near the water without mixing with it does not take away its power. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Scent for the pilgrim",
     "markdown": "A pilgrim in ihram may not use what is worn for its scent, such as musk and aloes, but may use what is not worn for its scent, such as apples or citron. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Smells in mosques",
     "markdown": "Mosques are to be perfumed and kept free of foul smells such as garlic and onion; a person who has eaten them is kept away, and the Malikis allow releasing wind when there is need. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8565} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Harm from smell",
     "markdown": "A person who runs a smelly workshop among homes and causes deaths by it is liable, because he has broken custom. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Proof of drinking wine",
     "markdown": "Most jurists hold that the smell of wine on a person's breath does not prove the hadd penalty, because of other possibilities; the Malikis accept it. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8566} {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Meat and milk of the jallala animal",
     "markdown": "Most jurists dislike eating its meat and drinking its milk when impurity has changed their smell; the Shafi'is forbid them. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The husband's right",
     "markdown": "A husband may forbid his wife what gives him an unpleasant smell, and may require her to remove foul odours from body and clothes. {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8567}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/raiha-fiqh",
    "lang": "en",
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    "status": "draft"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "رائحہ وہ عرض ہے جو سونگھنے کی حس سے معلوم ہوتا ہے، خواہ خوشبو ہو یا بدبو۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حکمِ اجمالی",
     "markdown": "اس کا حکم ابوابِ فقہ کے لحاظ سے مختلف ہے۔ {cite:fiqh-mawsua-kuwaitiyya-noor-v3 p.8564}"
    }
   ],
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  "concept/allusion-to-proposal-in-iddah",
  "concept/awl-in-inheritance",
  "concept/breastfeeding-and-weaning",
  "concept/divorce-before-consummation",
  "concept/hadiyya-fiqh",
  "concept/hiba-fiqh",
  "concept/iddah",
  "concept/maintenance-after-divorce"
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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