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Purity Is Not Obligatory for Calling Athaan

Question

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuhu. Is it obligatory to be in the state of wudhu to give azan?

Answer

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad  sallallaahu  `alayhi  wa  sallam ( may  Allaah exalt his mention ) is His slave and Messenger.

Purity is neither a condition for the validity of the Athaan (call to prayer), nor is it obligatory, but it is only desirable.

If a person calls the Athaan without being in a state of purity, then his Athaan is sufficient but he misses what is desirable.

An-Nawawi  may  Allaah  have  mercy  upon  him said in al-Majmoo’:

It is desirable that the Muath-thin (the person who call the Athaan) calls the Athaan while he is in a state of purity. In case he calls the Athaan while he is not in a state of ablution or is in a state of Janaabah (state of being in sexual defilement), or calls the Iqaamah for the prayer while he is not in a state of ablution or is in a state of Janaabah then his Athaan is valid as well as his Iqaamah, but it is disliked.” [End of quote]

Allah Knows best.

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