Using Make Up When Praying How Is The Law? Is It Sah?
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YOGYAKARTA It's important to know Muslim women about using make-up during prayer, whether it's legal or not. The reason is, sometimes there are conditions where women cannot remove make-up all day like during wedding moments, graduation, or because of work. On the other hand, she has to perform five prayers a day.

As a middle ground, many pray without removing make-up first. So what is the law according to Islam?

As is known, before performing the prayer a Muslim will purify himself from a small hadith with ablution or tayamum. Ulama themselves agree that ablution is said to be legitimate if there are no other substances or barriers that prevent water from the body's limbs, including make-up.

Quoted from NU Online, objects that cannot prevent water from reaching the body's parts when wudhu such as oil, fat, paint, and ink. This substance is said to be unable to absorb water.

Meanwhile, regarding the law, still wearing make-up when praying, it must be seen from the valid or not the ablution carried out. If the make-up worn does not prevent the water from reaching the skin when the ablution, the prayer is valid even though it was previously wearing make-up.

Meanwhile, if the type of make-up worn before the ablution is one that is able to block water or is unable to absorb water or waterproof, then the ablution carried out is illegal as well as the prayers.

This condition also applies to the use of halal make-up, namely make-up made from holy and harmless materials. Even if a person wears a halal make-up, then he must remove it so that the water ablution can reach the body's disconnected body before being able to perform prayers.

So that prayers can still be done without removing make-up, the solution is to take ablution before making makeup. This method can be a middle way to get around the needs of prayer and make-up.

For the record, ablution must be done before makeup is carried out. In addition, those who are dressed must also really take care of the ablution as long as the make-up cannot be removed.

In addition, the make-up products used are halal or use sacred and harmless materials. It is different if the make-up material used contains unclean or other substances that cancel the ablution.

Currently, there are many Indonesian halal cosmetics that are popular so that they can be used without having to rule out worship activities.

Reporting from the website of the Ministry of Religion of Bali, in a statement from the Egyptian Fatwa Institute, Sheikh Dr. Muhammad Abdus Sami "from Dar Ifta Egypt explained that make-up and powder did not cancel the ablution.

Wearing make-up and powder, do not cancel the ablution and do not cancel the prayer because it is not an impure object. if you use powder and make-up after the ablution because you carry out prayers in a neat and clean state, then the law is sunnah. The Prophet recommended that you perform prayers in a neat state and wear fragrances.

If one of you prays, then use two strands of clothes, because Allah has more the right to be decorated. So if you don't have two clothes, you should wear a sarong when praying. And don't be one of you milled around in his prayer like a Jew. (HR. Al-Baihaqi).

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