LESSON
# 507 FROM HOLY QUR’AN
Rub Your Face & Hands with Soil if Find Not
Water
Surah NISAAA’ (WOMEN) - Chapter - 4)
Verses
–43b of 176, Section –7/24 (Part – 5)
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And if ye be ill, or on a journey, or one of
you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye find not water,
then go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands (therewith). Lo!
Allah is Benign, Forgiving.
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Wa ‘in- kuntum-marzaaa ‘aw ‘alaa safarin
‘aw ‘ahadum-minkum-minal-gaaa-‘iti ‘aw
laamas-tumun-nisaaa-‘afalam
tajiduu maaa-‘an fata-yamma-muu sa-‘iidan-tayyiban fam-sahuu
bi-wujuuhikum wa ‘ay-diikum.
‘Innallaaha kaana ‘A-fuwwan
Gafuuraa.
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Lesson
It was described in the previous lesson that the prayer
cannot be offered if the body of man or woman is polluted/unclean and until
he/she does not take bath. But if someone is either ill or on a journey or has
come from the privy, or he has touched the woman, and does not find water for
cleanliness, then it has been uttered in this verse that they should purify with
sand or dust. That purification is called tayammum.
Three forms of excuse from bathing have been discussed in
this lesson:
1. Illness While the water harms and there is a danger
of increasing the illness due to its use.
2. Journey If any person is on
a journey and either does not have so much water to do ablution, or quantity of
the available water is too less that, if he does ablution then the water will
not remain for his drinking and there is no hope to get it at a very distant
from his location. And he may die due to thirst.
3. Nonexistence
of Water It is also possible
that the water will entirely be unreachable.
In this verse, two kinds of cleanliness have been mentioned:
·
Someone has come back (from the latrine) after disposing of
his/her stool or urine and needs to do ablution.
·
He/she has copulated and now requires taking bath.
Method of Tayammum (purifying
before prayer with sand or dust when water cannot be had) is that they should
beat their both hands on the pure earth (soil or dust) and rub on entire face. Then
bring hands to high clean soil again and now rub both
hands up to their elbows. Soil has been set as locum-tenens of water at the
time of any proper motive because it is pure and can be obtained more easily than
water.
In addition, the earth is root of the humanity,
and turning towards one’s root, there is safety from the sins and depravities.
Allah Almighty permitted to do Tayammum in place of ablution when it is necessary and set the soil
as substitute of water because He is Forgiving and Producer of ease. He likes
advantages and facilities for His servants. Apparently, these instructions seem
difficult to the mankind, but the aim from it all is that the human beings may
become pious and pure, and achieve success in this world and the Hereafter.
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