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Fatwa CenterPurity Is Not Obligatory for Calling Athaan
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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 
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 
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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