Purity: Tayammum in Place of Ghusl Due to Medical Harm

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Purity: Tayammum in Place of Ghusl Due to Medical Harm

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Question #181:

I am faced with a problem, i.e. even a single drop of water is so harmful for my body that even it should not be wiped. While washing my body, even a part of it, my heartbeat increases along with other symptoms. Is it permissible for me in such a condition to have intercourse with my wife, to do tayammum instead of ghusl for several months, and to pray and enter the masjid with this tayammum?

Answer #181:

It is not obligatory for you to refrain from intercourse and after becoming junub, if you are excused from performing ghusl of janābah, your shar‘ī duty is to do tayammum instead of ghusl for the acts that require ghusl. And with tayammum, there is no impediment to your entering a masjid, offering prayer, touching the script of the Noble Qur’an and all the other acts that require ghusl.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Rules of Ghusl Janābah