Please comment on the advice given recently by a Cape Town Sheikh on the issue of reducing water when making wudhu.

Answer

To say the very least, the sheikh has misapplied his brains. Perhaps it is due to the fact that the Cape Town sheikhs are notorious for their malady of hydrophobia (fear of water), particularly in Istinja matters, and generally in issues pertaining to Tahaarat. They are thoroughly westernized, hence they clutch at straw technicalities, which is the effect of their particular kind of hydrophobia. These miscreant MJC sheikhs were the very first to open the doors of halaalizing carrion. They lack understanding of the Sunnah in entirety.

Firstly, it should be understood that 'Sunnah' is not a licence for wholesale discardence of the practices of the Shariah as commanded by Allah Ta'ala. Every act of the Deen even if it is technically classified Mustahab in Fiqh, is practically Waajib (compulsory). Thus, washing the limbs thrice in wudhu is WAAJIB practically irrespective of its Fiqhi classification. The Sahaabah were not aware of these Fiqhi classifications. As far as they were concerned, every act ordered by Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) was Fardh for practical implementation.

Secondly, we are not in a situation where we find dead bodies of people and animals strewn around as a consequence of drought / famine which is also Allah's Athaab for a rotten community. We see greenery all around.

Thirdly, billions of litres of water are being used daily by industry for the production of harmful, injurious and haraam substances such as soft drinks, liquor, artificial juices, and generally in every sphere of industry. Every factory utilizes thousands of litres daily. We see swimming pools full of water. People are washing their cars and watering their gardens.

Now when billions of litres of water are available daily even in Cape Town for satanic waste by industry and other entities, what constrained this miscreant sheikh to focus only on the Sunnah? What constrained him to understand the Deen to be made a target for his kufr diagnosis of the situation?

The sheikh's advice is vile bunkum tantamount to kufr stemming from a convoluted brain deranged by addiction to carrion and najaasat which are integral constituents of the western kuffaar lifestyle which the sheikh has adopted. His advice is the inspiration of Iblees. It is haraam in the circumstances to discard the Sunnah method of Wudhu. Each limb must be compulsorily washed thrice. In the backdrop of daily wastage of billions of litres of water, what substantial saving of water could be made from discardence of the Sunnah?