Issue 342: One must perform Tayammum instead of Ghusl and Wudhu in the following cases:

1- When there is no water available.

Q343: In prison, sometimes prisoners need to perform Janabah Ghusl, but it is not possible to do so. What must such prisoners do for their prayers and other acts of worship?

A: They must perform Tayammum and if it is even not possible to do so, as an obligatory precaution, they must offer their prayers without Ghusl and Tayammum, but offer the Quadha prayers when possible.

2-When water is harmful to a person, for instance, when it would cause an illness, or an already existing illness would grow worse, or when it would prolong the treatment and delay the recovery, or using water would make it hard to cure a disease; however, if warm water is not harmful to a person in such situations, they must perform Ghusl or Wudhu with warm water.

3- When a person or their companions develop an illness or die of thirst if they use the available water for Wudhu or Ghusl, or when using the water would leave them with intense thirst which would be difficult to bear.

4- When a person’s body or clothes are impure and the available water is just enough to purify them, and they have no other clothes to wear.

5- When the time left for prayer is so little that if one performs Wudhu or Ghusl, they will have to offer all or a part of the prayer after its prescribed time.

Q344: Is it allowable for a person with injured Wudhu parts, who has no way other than perform Tayammum, to perform tayammum with the intention of keeping pure until it is time for prayers (despite the fact that the time for prayers has not come yet), and then to offer their prayers with that, or must they renew their Tayammum when it is time for prayers?

A: It does not matter to Perform Tayammum with the intention of keeping pure, and it is a favorable act, and according to the tradition, “soil is one of the two purifiers and it would suffice to use it as a purifier even for ten years if necessary”, with the same Tayammum performed before the time of prayer one can offer their prayers, provided that the cause of Tayammum is still there.

Q345: Is it legally permissible to offer prayers with the Tayammum which has been performed instead of Ghusl while being short of time before the morning Adhaan in Ramadhan-ul-Mubarak (when Muslims are supposed to prepare for keeping obligatory fasts), or must one renew their Tayammum?

A: Tayammum performed because of being short of time is only valid for the purpose which it was performed for, and it would not suffice for other prayers and purposes.