Swimming in a pool

[Guest Mal]

If I swim in a pool with people who just urinated in the restroom but did not purify themselves, do I consider the pool water najis? 
 

It would be hard to be swimming in a pool at a hotel and tell every non-Muslim person every time the use the bathroom to purify themselves. Thank you. 

[Muhammad A-H]

Salam,

No because the amount of water in the pool amounts to more than kurr. When an amount of mutlaq water adds up to kurr (384 Liters to approx. 500 Liters depending on the marja') or more than kurr, then the water does not become najis as long as the colour, smell and taste of the water does not change.

 

Ruling 14. Kurr water is an amount of water that fills a container which has dimensions [i.e. length, breadth, and depth] totalling thirty-six hand spans(1),14 and this is equivalent to approximately 384 litres.

Ruling 15. If an intrinsic impurity (ʿayn al-najāsah) – such as urine or blood – or something that has become impure (mutanajjis) – such as impure clothing – comes into contact with kurr water, in the event that kurr water acquires the smell, colour, or taste of that impurity, it becomes impure; but if the kurr water does not change [in its smell, colour, or taste], it does not become impure.

https://www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2117/

[Guest Sal]

Would the pool water be purifying too? As in if I used the restroom but didn’t purify my self and jumped into the pool ? Thanks

[Muhammad A-H]

11 hours ago, Guest Sal said:

Would the pool water be purifying too? As in if I used the restroom but didn’t purify my self and jumped into the pool ? Thanks

Salam,

The pool purifies the urinary organ.

[Tabassum Iman]

As-salam alaykom,

I know many people who got extremely sick from swimming in swimming pools. I do not recommend it. Not only from body fluids, but also from the chemicals they use and the pools are not always cleaned perfectly with the water drained. They keep the same water for too long and it becomes sickly for the human. Better to swim in natural lakes, ocean, sea, river.

[Guest Razz]

What if the swimming pool has chlorine in it mixed with the water. Can this water still be used to purify yourself. I follow ayotullah Sistani

[Muhammad A-H]

You can use water mixed with chlorine to purify yourself as the amount of chlorine in the water is insignificant and the water is conventionally considered to be "water".

 

 

15. Water is either pure or mixed. Mixed water (Ma 'ul muzaf) means the water which is obtained from something like melon juice, or rose water, or that water in which something else is mixed, (for example, so much dust is mixed in it that it may no longe r be called water).
Any water other than mixed water is called pure water (Ma'ul mutlaq), and they are of five types: Kurr Water, Under-Kurr Water, (QALEEL) Running Water, (JAREE) Rain Water, Water of a Well

https://www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2115/

[Guest Ota]

@Muhammad A-H Salam, how will the pool water purify the urinary organ if your wearing shorts in the pool? Will it still purify your whole body even if your wearing clothes?

[Guest Sister M]

Salam, is it alright to swim in a sinking pool where other non-Muslims have swum?