The ruling on the prayer of a prostate patient using tayammum
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Question:
We ask your permission, Your Excellency the Shaykh, to present these questions that have reached us. This one says: Your Excellency the Shaykh, I am eighty-eight years old and I was afflicted with prostate disease a few years ago, which is an inability to control urination. I underwent surgery, but it was not successful, so I began wearing diapers. However, urine still leaks out in excess and soaks my clothes. I perform tayammum, knowing that wudu' causes me hardship, so all my prayers are now performed with tayammum. I ask for your guidance.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. A questioner like this is said to have a permanent state of ritual impurity. Yes. He does not perform wudu' except when he intends to pray. He performs wudu' and prays immediately. His prayer is valid because he is unable to do more than that. Yes.
The presenter:
Yes, may Allah bless you.
We ask your permission, Your Excellency the Shaykh, to present these questions that have reached us. This one says: Your Excellency the Shaykh, I am eighty-eight years old and I was afflicted with prostate disease a few years ago, which is an inability to control urination. I underwent surgery, but it was not successful, so I began wearing diapers. However, urine still leaks out in excess and soaks my clothes. I perform tayammum, knowing that wudu' causes me hardship, so all my prayers are now performed with tayammum. I ask for your guidance.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. May Allah send prayers and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. A questioner like this is said to have a permanent state of ritual impurity. Yes. He does not perform wudu' except when he intends to pray. He performs wudu' and prays immediately. His prayer is valid because he is unable to do more than that. Yes.
The presenter:
Yes, may Allah bless you.
Source
قناة «إذاعة القرآن الكريم»، نور على الدرب مع معالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان ح7507 — youtube.com (0:54)
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