The Creed of Compassion-Islamic Teachings & Answering Doctrinal Misconceptions

Issue No.287- Performing wuḍū with the water whose owner had allowed its use before and one does not know whether he has changed his mind or not, is valid.

Issue No.288- Performing wuḍū with the water of a religious school that one does not know whether has been endowed only to its students or all people, is not permissible as an obligatory precaution, unless one sees religious people making wuḍū with its water signifying its endowment for public.

Issue No.289- If a person who does not want to perform prayer in a mosque or hussayniyah/imambargah and is not aware whether its water is endowed to the public, or specifically to those who perform prayer there, he cannot make wuḍū using that water. Similarly, performing wuḍū with the water of inns and guesthouses for the people who are not residing there is not valid, unless one can gather from the acts of religious people that the water in such places has been endowed for public use.

Issue No.290- If a person is not a student of a religious school, but he is a guest of the students, there is no harm in his performing wuḍū with the water of that school provided that having such guests is not against the conditions of the endowment (waqf). The same rule applies to the guests of the residents of guesthouses or inns.

Issue No.292- If a person forgets that some water is usurped, and performs wuḍū with it, his wuḍū is valid unless he himself is the usurper of the water. In this case, the wuḍū is void as an obligatory precaution.

Issue No.293- If a person thought that the water was his, and after performing wuḍū he found out that the water belonged to someone else, his wuḍū will be correct and he should pay the price of the water to its owner.

Issue No.294- If one performs wuḍū in a pool which, for instance, a usurped brick or stone is used in, if his wuḍū is counted as utilization of that usurped brick or stone, it is not allowed as an obligatory precaution to make wuḍū there. The same ruling applies when the tap or some parts of a pipe are usurped.

Issue No.295- It is permissible to perform wuḍū from a pool or a canal which is built in the precincts of the shrine of the holy Imams (as) or their descendants that used to be a graveyard, as long as one does not know that the land has been endowed as a graveyard.

Issue No.297- If the water for wuḍū is in a gold, silver or usurped container, and there is no water other than this, one should perform tayammum and it is not allowed to make wuḍū as an obligatory precaution neither by immersion nor by pouring water on the face and arms by hand. However, he can pour the water which is in that container into another one and then perform wuḍū from the second container.

Sixth condition: There should be enough time to perform Wuḍū and prayer.Issue No.302- One should have enough time to perform wuḍū and prayer. Therefore in the case of time being so short that if wuḍū is performed, the entire prayer or some of its obligatory acts will fall after the prescribed time, he should perform prayer with tayammum.

Issue No.303- If a person is short in time for prayer, he should perform tayammum instead of wuḍū. If he performs wuḍū for prayer, his wuḍū is valid but he should not perform wuḍū in the same case.

Issue No.306- If a woman performs wuḍū where she can be seen by a non-maḥram, her wuḍū is not void, though she has committed a sin.