Tattoo and Ghusal

[Ranjhan]

Does having a Tattoo have any effect on Ghusl? Does it prevent the water from reaching the skin? I don’t know how they work.

[Sharaabi]

getting a tattoo is haraam.

[Saimaaa]

Re: Tattoo and Ghusal

Tattoos prevent the water from reaching the skin and are therefore haraam. And also due to them, one's Ghusl and Wudhu remain incomplete. The tattooers and tattoed are also cursed in both the Qur'an and Hadith.

[gupguppy]

Re: Tattoo and Ghusal

^ Tattoos are injected below the surface of the outer skin, so how do they prevent water from reaching the skin?

[PakistaniAbroad]

Re: Tattoo and Ghusal

AND where does it say that water touching every square inch of your skin is a mandatory requirement for wuzoo? how about a tayammum then?

[Saimaaa]

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@gupguppy

^ Tattoos are injected below the surface of the outer skin, so how do they prevent water from reaching the skin?

Tattoo: a permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an *indelible pigment or by raising scars.

*Indelible: making a mark not easily removed, erased or washed away.

So if the pigments are injected below the skin, it only makes sense that they reach up to the surface for one to be able to see the design, no?

I’ve read that modern tattoos are actually pieces of artificial skin which bonds with one’s skin and carries the tattoo with it. And so therefore, this second layer of artificial skin clearly blocks water from reaching the actual skin below.

[Saimaaa]

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@PakistaniAbroad

AND where does it say that water touching every square inch of your skin is a mandatory requirement for wuzoo? how about a tayammum then?

It is not required that water touch every square inch of one’s body as a compulsion for wudhu, however, the parts that need to be washed have to be done so properly. How hard can that be?

Tayammum can be performed to substitute for Wudhu. This can be done due to several reasons: if there’s no water available, medical reasons, …

So if one has the resources and if one’s health permits him, he should do proper Wudhu instead of Tayammum.

[gupguppy]

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@Saimaaa

So if the pigments are injected below the skin, it only makes sense that they reach up to the surface for one to be able to see the design, no?

No! Skin has an element of transparency (which varies from one individual to another)… we can often see our veins through our skin, this doesn’t mean the veins have broken through the surface of the skin, they still lie beneath the skin in the same way tattoo pigments are injected below the surface…

[Saimaaa]

Re: Tattoo and Ghusal

@gupguppy

No! Skin has an element of transparency (which varies from one individual to another)… we can often see our veins through our skin, this doesn’t mean the veins have broken through the surface of the skin, they still lie beneath the skin in the same way tattoo pigments are injected below the surface…

Thanks for the explanation. I really don’t know much about these kinds of things.

Still however, I do know that tattoos are Haraam.

[Sharaabi]

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@PakistaniAbroad

AND where does it say that water touching every square inch of your skin is a mandatory requirement for wuzoo? how about a tayammum then?

PA…Saimaa’s rite. Save the argument and accept the facts.

Wodhu and tayammum are two seperate things, and tayammum is only valid under specific conditions.