Purity: Can One With Incontinence Perform Tayammum for Mustaḥabb Ghusl?
Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei
Purity: Can One With Incontinence Perform Tayammum for Mustaḥabb Ghusl?
English:
Question #202:
Is it permissible for one, suffering from incontinence of urine due to spinal cord injury in the war, to perform tayammum as a substitute for mustaḥabb ghusl like Friday ghusl, and ghusl for visiting the Infallibles’ shrines and so on, as it is somewhat difficult for him to go to bathroom?
Answer #202:
The correctness of tayammum as a substitute for ghusl — in order to perform those practices for which purity is not a condition — is problematic. However, there is no objection to doing it as a substitute for mustaḥabb ghusls, in cases involving unbearable hardship, in the hope that it is desired by shar‘.