Cleaning Using Toilet Paper
Good question brother. Isn’t cleanliness a relative term? 1400 years ago there was neither paper and perhaps not water everywhere for this purpose nor always soap. Maybe rocks were used. I think water cleans much better but why not wipe with Alcohol laden wet wipes after water for even more clean. The point is back to your question. Perhaps the question is what clean means in Islam or perhaps for prayer; otherwise it is relative term based on culture, resources, science, etc.
Brother Muhammad. I was hoping a scholar to sheds some light on this topic. I was thinking about this topic a bit more and it dawned on me that clenliness standards of Islam cover the following general principals. 1. Cleanliness for prayer. 2. To look respectably clean as an ambassador of Islam 3. Not to incovenient others with odor. All those objectives are covered under the following guidelines. -wudhu or shower for prayers -Clean and odorless body and clothes -No excraments on body or clothes …I believe with total area of a old silver dollar. Overall these are fairly simple and easy standards. So for Islam use of paper or water both exceed minimum standards. For extra credit, achieving higher standards would be encouraged, I suppose.