Mufti Menk – Wisdom Behind Tayammum

Think for a moment if the water wasn't

available,

what would you do?

There's something known as

tayammum. Tayammum means to just use dust.

Dust to do what? To wash yourself. Okay.

So how do I do it? Well I

just tap my hands on it and I

do, you know, my hands, my face, etcetera.

And I know for a fact this is

dust. There's bacteria here. Allah says, don't worry.

You've arrived at a level of cleanliness that

is that has readied you and prepared you

to begin your prayer. SubhanAllah.

That proves that you know what? I know

for a fact there's bacteria, there's a bit

of dirt, there's a bit of this. Allah

says ignore that. It's it's irrelevant for now

because you didn't have the water. It's irrelevant.

So if you look at it, Allah just

wants you to do what he has told

you to do even though he knows that

it might not be absolutely

pure completely to the degree that there's not

even 1% of dirt.

That's never the case. There has to be.

You know,

a little bit of it is excused. It's

excusable.

You cannot be 100%

pure in terms of physical purity, cleanliness.

There's gonna be a little a droplet here,

a little splash there, a small thing. Yes.

If you can see it with your eyes

and you know about it, clean it.

And how do you clean it?

Do it how Allah told you to do

it, and you're done. After that, don't worry

about it. Move on. Just move on. Do

your prayer. It will be accepted. Did you

hear what I just said? May Allah grant

us ease. I hope those who needed to

hear that would actually benefit from it. Right?