PURIFICATION · TOPIC 6 OF 7
Tayammum
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Dry ablution (tayammum) is permissible when there is a valid excuse, such as:
- Being roughly one Hashimite legal mile [1.16 mi / 1.86 km] away from water
- Extreme cold
- Sickness
- Wound on most of the body
- Fear of thirst
- Fear of an enemy or a wild beast [around the water]
- Lack of apparatus [to take water out of the well]
- Fear of missing the funeral prayer (Janāzah) or the Eid prayer, even if building upon one’s prayer [if one’s wuḍū’ is nullified during the prayer], as opposed to the Friday prayer or a normal prescribed prayer
Tayammum may be performed with any pure substance of the earth, such as dirt, sand, limestone, stones, or dust, and even the dust on clothes.