Issue: What does one who lacks both means of purification do?
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The Shaykh : If a man finds neither water nor earth, for example, if he is imprisoned or confined to a bed or something similar, what do we say: "Be patient until you are able to perform tayammum or wudu," or do we say "Pray according to your condition"?
We say: Pray according to your condition, because the time is the most important condition of the prayer.
Pray according to your condition.
If you have not performed wudu or tayammum, we say: Pray according to your condition.
This is an issue—may Allah bless you—that you must pay attention to regarding the sick.
Many of the sick in hospitals are unable to perform wudu, they have no earth, and they are unable to perform tayammum, and perhaps there is ritual impurity on their clothes.
So you find one of them saying: "I will be patient until Allah—Mighty and Majestic—cures me, and I will perform wudu and wash my clothes, and so on."
We say to this person: Delaying the prayer is forbidden for you, and what makes you think that perhaps you will die from this illness before you pray?
It is obligatory for you to pray according to your condition, even if there is ritual impurity on you that you cannot remove, even if you have no water to perform wudu with, and even if you cannot perform tayammum.
Pray according to your condition.
We say: Pray according to your condition, because the time is the most important condition of the prayer.
Pray according to your condition.
If you have not performed wudu or tayammum, we say: Pray according to your condition.
This is an issue—may Allah bless you—that you must pay attention to regarding the sick.
Many of the sick in hospitals are unable to perform wudu, they have no earth, and they are unable to perform tayammum, and perhaps there is ritual impurity on their clothes.
So you find one of them saying: "I will be patient until Allah—Mighty and Majestic—cures me, and I will perform wudu and wash my clothes, and so on."
We say to this person: Delaying the prayer is forbidden for you, and what makes you think that perhaps you will die from this illness before you pray?
It is obligatory for you to pray according to your condition, even if there is ritual impurity on you that you cannot remove, even if you have no water to perform wudu with, and even if you cannot perform tayammum.
Pray according to your condition.