Quran Chptr 4-43b (Pt-5, Stg-1)(L-546)- درس قرآن
Soil is also purifier when water does not exist
Surah ‘An-Nisaaa’ (The Women) – Chapter
– 4)
BisMIllaahir-Rahmaanir-Rahiim
In
the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
43b. And if ye be ill, or on a journey, or one
of you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye find not
water, then go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands
(therewith). Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving.
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43b. Wa ‘in- kuntum-marzaaa
‘aw ‘alaa safarin ‘aw ‘ahadum-minkum-minal-gaaa-‘iti
‘aw laamas-tumun-nisaaa-‘afalam tajiduu
maaa-‘an fata-yamma-muu sa-‘iidan-tayyiban
fam-sahuu bi-wujuuhikum wa ‘ay-diikum.
‘Innallaaha kaana ‘A-fuwwan Gafuuraa.
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Commentary
It was described in the previous
lesson that the prayer cannot be offered if the body of man or woman is
polluted/unclean and until he/she does not take bath. But if someone is either
ill or on a journey or has come from the privy, or he has touched the woman,
and does not find water for cleanliness, then it has been uttered in this verse
that they should purify with sand or dust. That purification is called tayammum.
Three forms of excuse from bathing
have been discussed in this lesson:
- While the water harms and there is a danger of increasing the
illness due to its use.
- If any person is on a journey and either does not have so much
water to do ablution, or quantity of the available water is too less that,
if he does ablution then the water will not remain for his drinking and
there is no hope to get it at a very distant from his location. And he may
die due to thirst.
- It is also possible that the water will entirely be unreachable.
In this verse, two kinds of
cleanliness have been mentioned:
- Someone has come back (from the latrine) after disposing of his/her
stool or urine and needs to do ablution.
- He/she has copulated and now requires taking bath.
Method of Tayammum (purifying before
prayer with sand or dust when water cannot be had) is that they should beat
their both hands on the pure earth (soil or dust) and rub on entire face. Then
bring hands to high clean soil again and now rub both hands up to their elbows.
Soil has been set as locum-tenens of water at the time of any particular
occasion because it is pure and can be obtained more easily than water.
In addition, the earth is foundation
of the mankind and by turning unto one’s root, there is safety from the sins
and depravities.
Allah Almighty permitted to perform Tayammum in place of ablution
when it is necessary and set the soil as substitute of water because He is
Forgiving and Producer of ease. He likes advantages and facilities for His
servants. Apparently, these instructions seem difficult to the mankind, but the
aim from it all is that the human beings may become pious and pure, and achieve
success in this world and in the Hereafter.
Transliterated Holy Qur’an in Roman Script & Translated from
Arabic to English by Marmaduke
Pickthall, Published by Paak Company, 17-Urdu Bazar, Lahore, Lesson collected
from Dars e Qur’an published By Idara Islah wa Tableegh, Lahore
(translated Urdu to English by Muhammad Sharif).
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