Do I Have To Make Wudu With Contaminated Water?

Question: 

Do I have to make wudu with contaminated water?

Answer:

I hope you are doing well, insha’Allah.

If the water is unsafe to drink but safe for external use, then you can make wudu and rinse the mouth and nose with drinking water.

If the water is even unsafe for external use, then boil water, and store it for wudu and ghusl.

But this, on its own, would not be a sufficient excuse for tayammum. [Shurunbulali, Maraqi al-Falah]

And Allah is the giver of success and facilitation.

[Shaykh] Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Faraz Rabbani spent ten years studying with some of the leading scholars of recent times, first in Damascus, and then in Amman, Jordan. His teachers include the foremost theologian of recent times in Damascus, the late Shaykh Adib al-Kallas (may Allah have mercy on him), as well as his student Shaykh Hassan al-Hindi, one of the leading Hanafi fuqaha of the present age. He returned to Canada in 2007, where he founded SeekersGuidance in order to meet the urgent need to spread Islamic knowledge–both online and on the ground–in a reliable, relevant, inspiring, and accessible manner. He is the author of: Absolute Essentials of Islam: Faith, Prayer, and the Path of Salvation According to the Hanafi School (White Thread Press, 2004.) Since 2011, Shaykh Faraz has been named one of the 500 most influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center.