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Does tayammum lift ritual impurity when water is unavailable or cannot be used, such as due to illness, according to those who hold that it does lift ritual impurity?

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Scholars differ on whether (dry ablution) removes the ritual impurity (). Most of them hold that it merely permits prayer and does not remove the hadath, because it is a necessary substitute. However, the Hanafis, some Malikis, Shafi'is, and Ibn Taymiyyah hold that it does remove the hadath, citing the : "Pure earth is the purification (tahur) of themuslim," and the verse: "but He intends to purify you," arguing that "tahur" (purification/purifier) is the name of that which purifies, and thus the hadath is temporarily removed by it and returns upon the availability of water.

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