How should one perform salaah if one cannot find water to perform ghusal?
Question
If there is a shortage of water for like a day, and one has to do ghusal but he couldn't, can he perform salaah like that or does he have to delay the salaah until he finds water to do ghusal properly?
Answer
If he can make a fardh ghusl then he should do the fardh ghusl and then do the namaaz. Namaaz without ghusl is not valid if ghusl is wajib.
And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
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- Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
Where scholars differ, it’s safer to take the more cautious view.
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