Tayammum for those who do not find water in the mosques and need to request it from the Christians
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I am a scholarship student from one of the African countries. In our region in Africa, the mosques are devoid of wells. We need to pray, and we need to perform wudu, but we have no water. So in some circumstances, we go to the houses of the neighboring Christians to ask them for it. We face various forms of rebuke. Is it permissible for us to perform tayammum in this situation?
Answer:
You can bring it, so it is permissible for you to perform tayammum (dry ablution with clean earth), based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:[An-Nisa 4:43] from [An-Nisa 4:43], and do not go to the Christians while they are threatening you and bestowing favors upon you.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I am a scholarship student from one of the African countries. In our region in Africa, the mosques are devoid of wells. We need to pray, and we need to perform wudu, but we have no water. So in some circumstances, we go to the houses of the neighboring Christians to ask them for it. We face various forms of rebuke. Is it permissible for us to perform tayammum in this situation?
Answer:
You can bring it, so it is permissible for you to perform tayammum (dry ablution with clean earth), based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:
and find no water
فَلَمْ تَجِدُوا مَاءًthen seek clean earth
فَتَيَمَّمُوا صَعِيدًا طَيِّبًا
Source
شرح قاعدة جليلة في التوسل والوسيلة، بداية من قوله : وقال - تعالى - : { سأصرف عن آياتي الذين يتكبرون في الأرض بغير الحق } — islamhouse.com (1:17:57)
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