{"id":11933,"date":"2026-01-27T06:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=11933"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:36:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:36:49","slug":"unable-perform-wudu-due-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=11933","title":{"rendered":"I Am Unable to Perform Wudu Due to Disability, What Do I Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Unable to Perform Wudu Due to Disability<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Almighty Allah says:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-left text-translation times-new\" style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><small class=\"english\">O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles. And if you are in a state of janabah, then purify yourselves.<\/small> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.learning-quran.com\/quran-translations\/en-translation\/different-reciters\/al-maidah-1-11\/\">Al-Ma&#8217;idah<\/a> 5:6) <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"hadith_narrated\">\n<p>Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said, &#8220;Allah does not accept prayer of anyone of you if he does <em>hadath<\/em> (passes wind) till he performs the ablution (anew).&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islamic-history\/albukhari-the-imam-of-hadith-and-sunnah\/\">Al-Bukhari<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A person who has a spinal injury and is unable to perform <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/purification-2\/how-to-make-wudu\/\"><em>wudu<\/em><\/a> (ablution), what can be an alternative? Is this person still obliged to perform the full <em>wudu<\/em>? Watch this short video to get the answer with Sheikh Waleed Basyouni.<br \/>\n<span style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/unable-perform-wudu-due-disability\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is meant by Tayammum? How can you perform it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[1816,7835,7836,5340,9,1820,1926,1822,4695,6530,7837,7838,1052,1575,1852,1576,1577,5348,7839,7840,1833,7841],"class_list":["post-11933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-ablution","tag-ablution-at-hospital","tag-ablution-for-the-sick","tag-dry-ablution","tag-featured","tag-how-to-make-ablution","tag-how-to-make-prayer","tag-how-to-make-wudu","tag-how-to-perform-ablution","tag-learn-to-make-wudu","tag-perfroming-ablution","tag-perfroming-wudu","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-rulings-of-prayer","tag-salah","tag-salat","tag-tayammum","tag-tayammum-at-hospital","tag-unable-to-make-wudu-due-to-disability","tag-wudu","tag-wudu-of-the-sick"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Unable-to-Perform-Wudu-Due-to-Disability-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}