Chapter Seven

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Preparing For Eternal Life

How to Administer Tayammum

Tayammum to a deceased person is performed in the case where no or limited water is available, where the deceased is in a state of decomposition, where a bath is not possible, has severe burns, small pox or any other condition where water can not be used.

i) Niyyat

If one Tayammum is only required in the place of the three baths then Niyyat Maa Fizzimah is wajib as follows:

"For the pleasure of Allah as the ultimate end in the view I administer one Tayammum to this corpse instead of all three baths."

It three Tayammums are required to be performed in the place of the three purifying baths then the Niyyat Maa Fizzimah is required as below:

"for the pleasure of Allah as the ultimate end in the view I administer one Tayammum to this corpse for the bath with Aabi-Sidr (plum-tree leaves)... for the second with aab-i-Kaafoor (camphorised water)... for the third with aab-i-Khalis (pure water)."

If the Tayammums were not administered with Niyyat Maa Fizzimah, a forth is required with the Niyyat Maa Fizzimah.[Sayyid, Hadi Husayn (1988)]  

ii) Dust

  • The administrator must strike his / her palms on the dust and smear the dust in the forehead of the deceased down to the apex of the nose.

  • Then rubs his / her left palm on the right of the deceased from the wrist to the fingertips. Then the right palm on the back of the left hand from the wrist to the fingertips.

iii) Hunoot (rubbing of crushed camphor on the deceased)

  • Crushed camphor must be rubbed on all seven sajda parts of the body being the forehead, the two palms, two knees and the two big toes. 

  • If there is sufficient camphor remaining after Hunoot, then all joints can be rubbed and the remaining camphor placed on the chest of the deceased. 

  • If there is not sufficient camphor for Hunoot and only enough for the bath, then Hunoot ceases to become wajib. 

  • The administrator needs to Wuzu (ablution) his/her face and forearms after bathing the deceased.
    If the administrator of the bath also has the duty of shrouding the deceased, they must wash both their feet up to their knees.

 

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