 As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to Ehqam SOS, the show that discusses religious practices and duties by His Eminence, the Grand Ayatollah Sayyid S.A.P. My name is Mohsin Shah, I'm your host and joining me as always is Sheikh Ali Ma'ash. As-salamu alaikum sheikhla. As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi. Sheikh Nala Sahib we were discussing wudu and a question popped to my mind was that, what happens when someone has an injury? Now let's say this person has a sling or a splint or a plaster or a bandage, how does someone like that perform wudu? As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa s-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa s-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa s-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wa s-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi Jabira wudu is when somebody is in a position of having an injury on the parts of the wudu itself. So it's nothing to do with other parts of the non wudu parts. Let's say the back part of the body. So it's to do with the parts in which you do the usual wudu on it and you have injury. So how do we do the wudu on such injured parts and wounded parts? And the Jabira is by applying anything that prevents the moisture and the wetness of the hands of the wudu to touch that negesis area, that impure area, that wounded area which is either as I've said negesis impure or it is harming that part. It could be broken, bone or something else, anything else. So you have to make sure that you apply some kind of fabric or sellotape or plaster or anything that actually prevents the reach of the water to that area. And there are two parts, the washing parts and the wiping parts. So with regard to the washing parts of the body for the wudu, let's say you have a wound in your hand, then you apply the the splint if it's broken or if it's injured by a small wound, for example, plaster and you make sure you have cleaned the surroundings of the of the wound with water and it's just the wound which is left alone. So you actually cover that wound with a plaster, even sellotape, anything that covers the wound and then you begin to wash your hands as usual and when you reach that area of the wound with the jabira, with that plaster, you just wipe nicely and wash nicely on the wound which has a plaster so you don't actually touch the wound itself because it is negesis or it's harmful. So you just got over the plaster? Exactly, over the plaster. Exactly, exactly. So that is the jabira for the washing. With regard to the wiping, now to wipe the place where the jabira is just as normal, you just wipe after putting the plaster or the bandage, for example, on the feet or on the head and you just wipe all the way down as usual on that plaster or that bandage or that fabric. And that counts as the wudu of jabira due to that injury and covering the area of the wudu. So the rule changes here to the wudu of jabira because you cannot actually make the water to reach that area due to the wound or to the harmfulness of the water to that area. Okay, Sheikh, you've been describing the wudu of jabira, but what happens if there's a wound and there's no cover on it? What do we do in that situation? Well, if the water is harmful on that particular place and you cannot actually put some kind of plaster or splint or anything else, then you can avoid that area but you have to finish the wudu, you have to finish the wudu, you do the wudu completely and then as an obligatory precaution, you also do tiammu to have a complete tahara and wudu afterwards. Asen, Sheikh, what happens if we have a bandage or a plaster that covers the whole part of a body part that has to be washed or wiped in wudu? For example, I have a bandage that covers my whole face or a plaster from my elbow all the way down to my fingertips. What happens in that situation? In such situation, you do the wudu of jabira as has been described and informed, so you do the wudu of jabira and then afterwards you do tiammu as well because the whole part was covered, the whole face was covered for example, the whole arm was covered. So you do the wudu of jabira initially, you wipe on or wash the area which was covered by that, plasters or splint and so forth and then you do as an obligatory precaution as well, you do also tiammu afterwards. Sheikh, what happens in a situation where we have some sort of obstacle on our body part where we need to perform wudu, but it's very difficult to remove that obstacle? For example, plaster, for example, oil or glue, super glue, it's very, it's attached to the skin, very, very difficult to remove, very painful, could be discomforting. In that situation, can we perform wudu or is it, is it, you have to remove the obstacle in order to perform wudu? You have some obstacles like let's say super glue for example or some paints which remain in the body parts, let's say in hands, arms and so forth that cannot be removed easily and you don't actually harm yourself by trying to scratch your skin and bleeding yourself at the end of the day. So in such instances, you can actually do it as a wudu of jabira, do the wudu as a wudu of jabira as stated, but as an extra ihtiyat or istahbabi, you can also do the tiammu as well. Sheikh, I have a question here that I was sent in by one of the viewers and that is that they saw some of our Sunni brothers that they were doing masa on top of their socks. Now, is this classified as wudu jabira or not? Not at all because in what situation they are doing the wiping on their socks or even shoes in some cases, they're not allowed to actually do that. It's against the Sunni of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he never did such thing for the wudu that he would wipe on his socks or even shoes. So what we have is that you must wipe on the skin, the actual skin of your feet, both feet. You cannot just, for any excuse, just say that I'm tired, I just came from work, it's cold, the weather is freezing for example, I can't take off my socks, I just want to do the wudu on my socks. Such excuses are not accepted and the wudu is a bottle of course, it's void, which means you have to really do the wudu by wiping on the skin of your both feet. So you have to make sure that you wipe on the skin itself and you have the narration, interesting narration by the Imam alayhi sallam and the imams that they ask him that about the wiping on the shoes or the socks. The Imam says if that person who wipes on his shoes, for example, and comes on the day of judgment, so the wiping of the feet would go back to the same person and he gets the thawab and the reward for wiping on his feet, it's a credit for him. But if he wipes on the shoes, for example, and the shoes usually were made by the skin of animal in that time, so that goes with the animals, so imagine that the wiping goes back to the skin of that particular animal that he wiped on. So it is clear that in the school of Ahlul Bayt alayhum sallam and the son of the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi, that the wiping must be done on the skin of the feet. So sheikhna, when it comes to Urdu-Jabira, once the person has actually healed and the bandage or the splint or it has been removed, does he or she have to repeat the prayers again? Well you see, the hukum and the rule now with the situation of being in a state of wound or injury and with the splinter around his hand, for example, or plastic on his face, for example, because the situation now is, for him, the hukum is to do Urdu-Jabira, that's it, then he does according to the hukum and the rules that he does the Urdu-Jabira. When that the excuse of the matter or the illness or the injury is being cured, halas, he doesn't need to repeat all the prayers that he prayed with the Jabira Urdu. Let's say he was with the splint for, let's say three months and then he got the cure and he can actually practice his work and everything as it was before. In this case, he does have to pray all the three months abaa because the hukum in that time for him was to actually pray in the state of Jabira with the wounds and to wipe on the plaster or to wipe on the splint or to wipe on a fabric, for example, or a plastic. That's what Allah, Almighty, would accept from him. That was his taqlif in that time. So even if, let's say, if the wound or the splint was taken off in the morning and he already prayed morning prayer, let's say, after one hour they took off, he doesn't have to actually replay again, within the time frame itself of the Salah, to replay again that Salah, again. So even if you were, let's say, you prayed you went to the hospital, they removed the splint and you came back home and still there was time for the Salah, you didn't have to replay it again. Halas, you did your duty in that time is to pray with the Jabira. So that's your duty. So you don't have to actually replay or redo the Wudu and pray again. What's about when there's a wound and I know that, oh, this is going to heal up within an hour or two hours. Should I cover it and do Wudu Jabira or should I wait and, you know, well, technically delay the prayer, wait for it to heal, then do the Wudu and then pray? Well, again, it depends if you are certain and sure that this wound, sometimes it's a minor wound, and you think that it's going to be cured within one or two hours, you know, it won't really take that time. It's just a small wound, a little scratch, you know, by knife or by something sharp, blade and so forth. Then you have to wait one or two or three hours, of course, before the sunset or the sunrise depending on the Salat times. You wait, you delay the prayer, even if the adhan goes, you delay the prayer one, two, three hours depending on the wound situation, and then you go to check, you go to the bathroom and you wash the wound. If it's gone, khalas, you just do the Wudu and you pray. And that's wajib, according to the Sayyid's wajib, obligatory precaution, you have to wait. But in the other scenario in the case that if no, if the wound was deep, there was a deep wound and you know that such a wound won't be healing in three hours or two hours, it will take at least a day or two days. Then khalas, you can pray on time, according to the timetable and you pray. And whenever the wound was healed and then khalas, you just remove the plaster, then you begin doing the normal Wudu as usual. Ascent, Shaykh Maan. That concludes our discussion on Wudu. Thank you very much to all the viewers for joining us on this episode. 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