I am so disgusted! Yesterday I had a furniture delivery at my house, and forgot to pick up the jaanemaz from the floor. When I went into the bedroom, the delivery guy had stepped on the jaanemaz with his shoes.
It is only my husband and me at home, so we only have one jaanemaaz at home, so we used a sheet to pray yesterday. Can I wash my jaanemaaz in the machine? Will it make it paak again? Or should I just go out and buy a new one?
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It's a rug and you can follow directions of cleaning out a rug on your machine...maybe a delicate cycle should do it.
The Islamic ruling is that suppose your clothing or a prayer area becomes dirty, you just have to clean it with water 3 times and you're good to go. SO don't worry, just wash and use it again.
Re: can you wash a jaanemaaz?
I am so disgusted! Yesterday I had a furniture delivery at my house, and forgot to pick up the jaanemaz from the floor. When I went into the bedroom, the delivery guy had stepped on the jaanemaz with his shoes.
It is only my husband and me at home, so we only have one jaanemaaz at home, so we used a sheet to pray yesterday. Can I wash my jaanemaaz in the machine? Will it make it paak again? Or should I just go out and buy a new one?
Islam is a very practical religion...accidents do happen and simply washing in the machine or by hand is perfectly alright...it's just a piece of material that you set aside for praying on it, it has no sacred values attached to it. u don't EVEN need a jaa_namaaz for that matter. u can do ur prayers on any dry ground out in the field. sometimes, we tend to make life harder for no good reason :(
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thank you, that really helps!
Re: can you wash a jaanemaaz?
Peace saimab33,
In addition to above posts, you can offer 'namaaz' at any dry & clean place. As we see in Khana Ka'aba, visitors offters their prayers at surface without jaanemaz too. So there is no harm if you wash it and re-use, same as we re-wash our cloths and wear it again.