The Ruling on Tayammum for Patients with Paralysis and Ointments
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: A man is afflicted with paralysis and uses an ointment for treatment. This ointment has a layer that prevents water from reaching the body. What is the ruling? And if water affects the illness, is tayammum permissible?
Answer:
Yes, if water affects the illness, he performs tayammum until this illness is gone. Allah the Exalted said:[An-Nisa 4:43] So when patients need to perform tayammum, they do so and do not use water, neither for wudu' nor for ghusl, until the illness is gone. As for the ointment, I do not think it prevents water, even if it has a layer. It does not prevent water; it is not something that solidifies. What prevents water is what solidifies and dries. But the ointment is something that does not solidify or dry; water penetrates it and enters the skin with it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: A man is afflicted with paralysis and uses an ointment for treatment. This ointment has a layer that prevents water from reaching the body. What is the ruling? And if water affects the illness, is tayammum permissible?
Answer:
Yes, if water affects the illness, he performs tayammum until this illness is gone. Allah the Exalted said:
And if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself
وَإِن كُنتُم مَّرْضَىٰ أَوْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ أَوْ جَاءَ أَحَدٌ مِّنكُم مِّنَ الْغَائِطِ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل المرهم لعلاج مرض العنجز يمنع وصول الماء؟ وإذا كان الماء يؤثر فهل يجوز التيمم؟ للشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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