Re: Wuzu required for each namaz ?
Please don’t think that my effort to understand Quran and Hadees is limited to reading the English and Urdu translations.
With the toufeeq of Allah I have put time , effort and energy to understand the intricacies of Arabic Grammar. I continuously strive to increase my vocabulary of Quranic words and to learn the root and meaning of each Arabic word used in Quran.
I have put effort to read and understand various Tafaseer by various Ulema’s. All the Ulema’s and Quran itself tell you to critically evaluate what you read and hear and I just doing that. This verse and the prevalent practice among Muslims seem to me very contradictory.
Now look at this Holly Ayat again.
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The easy literal translation of this verse will be :
O those who believe whenever you stand up for Salat , wash your faces, and your hands up to your elbows, then touch your heads and your feet up to your ankles.
Th logic dictates that when you are completely physically fit and have all four perfect limbs you would be in some kind of state from which you will have to stand up to go and make wuzu to pray Namaz , that is what Quran is saying , saying not implying , saying in clear terms. (Yes there are exceptions we are not talking about them at this point.)
Yes I do not see the word Wuzu in this verse that is fine with me , I will take it that our Holly Prophet (SAW) named this act of purifying yourself before Sala as wuzu or wudu and it is a Islamic term .
This verse does not automatically tell you, implies or makes you assume that if you were not in the state of wudu previously only then you perform the wudu.
I know many people will face the dilemma that if we accept the easy and literal translation of this verse then it will invalidate many ahadees from many books of ahadees which are as cast in stone for many Muslims as the Quran is.
The mere fact that all the Jamaul ahadees examined the ahadees and rejected hundreds of thousands of ahadees and only chose to record the ones that passed their self prescribed tests tells me that ahadees are and will always be subject to examination . All those tests were missing the key element of judging a hadees , the common logic, if the hadees passed their tests they did not care if the hadees was against common logic. The ahadees which go against this simple and beautifully verse , to me, do not pass the common logic test, period.
If anyone does not agree with me I have no qualms about it . Allah knows the best. I am just trying to use the knowledge and wisdom he has bestowed upon me and if someone agrees to my line of reasoning and start performing wuzu before every namaz then I pray to Allah that he add the sawab of it to my tosha a akhrat. Ameen. Suma Ameen.