1) Are hand sanitisers to be considered pure as they contain alcohol in heavy percentage?2) I have read on sistani.org it says that alcohol itself isn’t najis and is permissible to be used in medicinal purposes. So does hand sanitizer dropping on clothes make them najis?

1) Per the ruling of you Marja (Sayed Khamenei)’, if the alcohol makes one drunk and it is originally in liquid form then it’s Najes.

2) According to Ayatollah Sistani, all these types of industrial alcohols are pure (they are not najes). Hence, the hand sanitizer dropping on clothes does not make them najes. But based on the fatwa of your Marja’, he says if the alcohol is originally in liquid form and it makes drunk (meaning if one were to drink it then it would make him drunk) then it’s najes.

If you have doubt about whether it’s najes or not, the law of purity applies and you can consider it pure.

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1) Are hand sanitisers to be considered pure as they contain alcohol in heavy percentage?

2) I have read on sistani.org it says that alcohol itself isn’t najis and is permissible to be used in medicinal purposes. So does hand sanitizer dropping on clothes make them najis?