Prayer of one who has some impurity on his person
Question I am a military student in one of the military academies, and I have to stay there five days a week. My problem is that, because we have little time, I have to do wudoo’ and pray within a short period of time, then go back to training. The problem is that when I…
Question
Praise be to Allah.
Firstly:
If the matter is as you
describe, that a few drops of urine come out shortly after urinating, and
you put a piece of cloth to prevent your body and clothing becoming
contaminated, then when you want to do wudoo’ you have to remove the cloth
and clean yourself, and wash the site where the urine has come out, or clean
yourself with the handkerchief by wiping your private part, and it is
essential that you wipe it no less than three times, because of the report
narrated by Muslim (262) from Salmaan al-Farisi (may Allaah be pleased with
him) who said: The Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him)
forbade us to clean ourselves with less than three stones.
Secondly:
It is not permissible for
the person who prays to carry any impurity during the prayer, and his prayer
is not valid if he does so, according to the majority of scholars. See:
al-Mughni (1/403) and al-Majmoo’ (3/157).
Based on that, if you carry
the handkerchief in your pocket, your prayer is not valid. You should take
out that handkerchief and place it beside you, or in your shoe that you have
taken off, or you should keep with you a bag in which you may place the used
handkerchief. If it so happened that you forgot the handkerchief in your
pocket and you finished your prayer, then you do not have to do anything and
your prayer is valid. If you remember it during the prayer, then you could
take it out from your pocket and place it beside you, and be careful not to
annoy anyone else with it.
It says in Nihaayat
al-Muhtaaj: If it is the matter of a choice between throwing the
impurity away now so that your prayer will be valid, but that requires
throwing it in the mosque because you are there, or not throwing it away so
as to protect the mosque from impurities but that will invalidate the
prayer, then what I think is more appropriate is to pay attention to the
validity of the prayer, and to throw the impurity away now in the mosque,
then remove it immediately after finishing the prayer, because by doing that
you can combine validity of the prayer with keeping the mosque clean. But it
is acceptable to throw away the impurity and delay removing it until you
have finished the prayer, because of the situation. End quote.
We do not think that
keeping enough handkerchiefs to suffice you during the time you have to stay
in the camp is something that will be too difficult for you, if you work out
how many of them you need.
And Allah knows best.
