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Doubts regarding tahaarat and purity

Q: 

  1. I am over conscious about purity and cleanliness. Even though I do my best to wear clean clothes, have clean body and wudu properly so I can offer salah perfectly but I always have doubt about cleanliness. I feel if I touch most things I’ll get germs I have to repeat my wudu again. I can’t able to do wudu any place anywhere I worry about cleanliness of the place. I have 3 different clothes, I wear 1 set of clothes for toliet, I have 1 set of clothes for going out and I have 1 set of clothes for praying salah.  I worry that if I wear same clothes that I went to toliet with that clothes wouldn’t be clean for salah.  I wear sandals at home because I don’t want to get germs or dirt from carpet.  I try to avoid touching the door handles so I don’t want to get infected with germs. I get thoughts  place where I pray it’s not clean enough. If some else prays on my praying mat (carpet) I feel that person made my mat dirty I have to wash it. I waste too much water and long time in wudu and ghusl. I follow the tiny things that are not even seen by eyes to clean them and remove them. After I do wudu I get thoughts like I didn’t do wudu properly or I didn’t wash 3 times each part of body or I have to repeat wudu again because I was bit careless when doing wudu.  These thoughts I get do I have to accept them or ignore them? I feel if I don’t listen to these thoughts my prayer will not be valid?
  2. How do keep yourself clean but not trying too hard or listening to shaytaan whispers?
  3. I am pretty sure I am suffering waswasas with regards to cleanliness, how can I stop these thoughts?

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A: 

  1. Don’t pay attention to all these doubts. Till you are not certain that your clothing is napaak, then regard it as paak.
  2. Keep Allah Ta’ala before you at all times and ensure that you are following the Sunnah of Rasulullah (Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam) in everything you do.
  3. Don’t pay attention to it. 

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

Answered by:

Mufti Zakaria Makada

Checked & Approved:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

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