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(salam)

 

I have a very bad habit of eating the dry skin on my lips and around my fingers. Is this haram? Is it najis? If I bite it off and it gets wet from my spit but I spit it out... what then?

 

Sorry for the weird and gross question but I have wondered this for a long time and I need to know for sure about this so any answers are appreciated.

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(bismillah)

(salam)

if the skin that you cut has sensation then the part that you've cut is najis (and the spit that touched it is also najis) and it's haram to eat najis

 

and if it doesn't it's not najis but it is haram to eat it (because it is khabith (evil) Quran 7/157)

 

(wasalam)

Edited by Malik.Ashtar
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this is the fatwa from Ayatoallah Sistani 

 

Issue 91: If flesh, or any other part which contains life, is cut off from the body of a living human being, or a living animal whose blood gushes forth, it will be najis.
 
Issue 92: Small pieces of skin which peel off from the lips, or other parts of the body, are Clean (tahir/pak).
 
as you see if it peels off (nay bite it off) it is tahir (i don't want to say if you bite it off it's always najis but sometime when you cut it off and it hurts, it contains very small live tissues !
 
in my idea the best solution is to try your best to quit the habit ! 
 
Good luck on quitting the bad habit ! B)
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this is the fatwa from Ayatoallah Sistani 

 

Issue 91: If flesh, or any other part which contains life, is cut off from the body of a living human being, or a living animal whose blood gushes forth, it will be najis.
 
Issue 92: Small pieces of skin which peel off from the lips, or other parts of the body, are Clean (tahir/pak).
 
as you see if it peels off (nay bite it off) it is tahir (i don't want to say if you bite it off it's always najis but sometime when you cut it off and it hurts, it contains very small live tissues !
 
in my idea the best solution is to try your best to quit the habit ! 
 
Good luck on quitting the bad habit ! B)

 

 

Very helpful, thank you! :)

 

You guys have never bitten off a hangnail?

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