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Insufficient water for both wudhu and cleaning one's clothing

· 2 Rabiʻ I 1440 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

If a person has more than the excused amount of najasat on their clothes, and the person has very little water available - should they remove the najasat with the water and pray with taymmaum or leave the najsaat on the clothes and use the water for wudu and pray?

Answer

If water is not found for the distance of one sharee mile or more and one only has a little water which will suffice for the fardh wudu and there is some najaasat on one's clothing, one should use the water to make wudu in such a manner that the water is preserved. Thereafter one should use the same water to remove the najaasat from the clothing.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by
Mufti Zakaria Makada
Checked & approved by
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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