The ruling on the ritual purity of one who removes the socks over which he wiped and then puts them back on

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A man wore two pairs of socks, and after wiping over the outer pair, he removed them and then put them back on. Does this invalidate his ritual purity or not?

Answer:
If he removed them before his ablution was broken, yes, he may wipe. But if he removed them after his ablution was broken, the wiping is invalid because he removed the thing over which he wiped.