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Conditions for at-Tayammum: Second Condition - Purity of the Earth (Part 13)
2-At-Tayammum must be
preformed using earth which is clean and pure.
Al-‘Uthaymeen explains that the
earth must have three characteristics:
-It is clean/pure.
-It can be used to clean and purify (see meaning of this below).
-It is not impure.
These three characteristics are similar to what has been said about water: that pure water
has three characteristics, if any of them change then the ruling of the water
changes likewise – the smell of the water, its colour and taste.
All of this is based
on the Aayah, - “perform Tayammum with clean earth and rub therewith your faces and hands” [al-Maa’idah
5:6]
A – The meaning of the
condition that the earth must be something that is used to clean and purify is
threefold:
-That the earth hasn’t been effected by something impure, such as that
piece of earth has been urinated upon.
-That the earth used to make at-Tayammum stays on the body and doesn’t
fall off. If a person makes at-Tayammum and the earth used to make it falls
off, then this nullifies this condition.
-That the earth being used to make at-Tayammum hasn’t been used before
to make at-Tayammum. For example, if a person makes at-Tayammum and then
another person comes and takes the earth that is on the hands or the face of
the person and makes at-Tayammum himself, then this is not permitted.
However this is different to using the same plot of land. So if a person
makes at-Tayammum in a particular place but then another comes and makes
at-Tayammum in that same place, then this is permitted.
Some of the scholars have said it is not because that piece of land has
already been used, akin to the ruling of used water (الماء المستعمل).
Originally published on the AhleDhikr blog.
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