Mufti Menk – Wisdom Behind Tayammum
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The speaker discusses the concept of tayammum and how it is used to wash one's body. They explain that the concept is not pure cleanliness but rather physical purity and cleanliness. The speaker advises the audience to do what they have been instructed to do and move on.
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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?