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All about Tayammum (Dry ablution)

            In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

‘Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon our beloved Prophet Muhammad (s.a.s), all his blessed descendents and noble companions.’

                                                                    -Aameen.

AT- TAYAMMUM (DRY ABLUTION)

 

Tayammum (Arabic: تيمم‎) is the Islamic act of dry ablution using sand or dust, which may be performed in place of ritual washing (wudu or ghusl) if no clean water is readily available.

"O you who believe! When you intend to offer As-Salat (the prayer), wash your faces and your hands (forearms) up to the elbows, rub (by passing wet hands over) your heads, and (wash) your feet up to ankles . If you are in a state of Janaba (i.e. after a sexual discharge), purify yourselves (bathe your whole body). But if you are ill or on a journey, or any of you comes after answering the call of nature, or you have been in contact with women, and you find no water, then perform tayammum with clean earth and rub therewith your faces and hands. Allah does not want to place you in difficulty, but He wants to purify you, and to complete His Favour to you that you may be thankful."

— The Noble Qur'an (5:6)

 

Circumstances when tayammum is necessary

Tayammum may be substituted for wudu or ghusl when access to water is restricted or impractical, namely:

When sufficient amounts of water for ritual washing are not available, including when using the available water for wudu or ghusl would leave insufficient water for drinking.

 When obtaining water is hazardous or prohibitively expensive.

 When using water poses a health risk.

 When the water available is impure.

If a person is found and he pointed out water within a legal mile or one can himself guess that within a legal mile water would definitely be available, then in such circumstances search for water is essential. To make Tayammum without searching water is prohibited.  

A legal mile according to Sunnah is equal to nine furlongs or about 1-1/4 Kilometer.

 

Performing tayammum

Tayammum consists of the following steps:

Finding a piece of ground which is free of najaasah (filth).

This could be any natural surface such as rock, sand, or dust.

Recite the Bismillah. Make Niyyah, or intention to make tayammum.

Place the hands on the surface of the ground.

Lift hands with palms downwards, ensuring that no dust remains, may rub them together.

Rub face with hands.

Press hands to ground and touch sides of hands together.

Rub right arm with left hand, from the fingers to the elbow, and back along the inner arm to the hand. Do the same with the other arm. Tayammum is important when there is no water to do wudu.

The same conditions that invalidate wudu also invalidate tayammum. In addition, a person's tayammum is invalidated as and when water becomes available.

Items on which Tayammum is permitted

All items which have thick dust on them

Baked earthen pots (unglazed)

Clay

Limestone

Sand

Stone

Taahir (pure) earth

Walls of mud, stone or brick

 

Items on which Tayammum is not permitted

All items which burn to ash, rot or melt

Food Items

Glass

Metals (Gold, silver, antimony...)

Wood

Cloth

If Tayammum was done for Wudu and then when water becomes available which is sufficient for ablution, then the Tayammum would be finished. Likewise, if Tayammum was done for Ghusl (bath) and then water is available to be sufficient for a bath, then Tayammum would break.

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A/N ;)

Well there you go…Allah SWT is The Most Holy and The Most Pure and He loves those who are pure, so I hope this chapter was beneficial and comes handy to you for performing Tayammum during times of need Insha Allah…

With Duas and Salaam,

abdurRahman (Gudi ;))