The ruling on using oils and dyes in ablution and the warning against issuing fatwas without knowledge
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Question:
The issue of the nobleman in the winter season, specifically, is that women and men use this, and it is a means of slipping into this religion. The question is that this is not counted as a barrier, because this matter has emerged and is considered a way of sneaking into the religion.
Answer:
What is washed away by water, oils are not washed away. Never. Rather, what prevents water is the thing that solidifies on the body, solidifies on the body and prevents the water from reaching, like plaster, like gypsum, things that solidify and have a substance and a covering that prevents water from reaching the skin. This is what prevents the validity of ablution. As for dyes that have no thickness, like henna, and other known dyes that do not solidify, and also oils, there is no harm in using them, and a person performs ablution and ghusl, and his purity is valid, because the water has flowed, because it is sufficient that the water flows over the limb. And if the Shaykh is swimming, he allows the doctor to enter under compulsion.
And by way of warning, because I have heard many questions about one who issues fatwas out of ignorance, saying that nail polish and thick dyes are like a cast or like leather socks, and one wipes over them. This is ignorance. This is an ignorant fatwa, and it is not permissible to act upon it. No one from the people of knowledge has said this. It does not have the ruling of a cast, nor the ruling of leather socks. It must be removed from the place of purity, and even if one wipes over it, his purity is not valid, because the act of wiping is based on specific evidence and is not permissible except in the places where the evidence has been established. Does a person issue fatwas to people when he has no knowledge? This is a great calamity. This fatwa has become a platform for some people, and they do not refrain from issuing fatwas when they have no knowledge, no accumulation of learning, and have not studied fatwa. This is a great error, and we fear its effects on people. Yes, a fatwa is not an easy matter, because you are informing about Allah, saying this is halal and this is haram, and perhaps you mislead people, so they perform acts of worship in a manner not prescribed, and perhaps they consume prohibited things based on your fatwa, and you are the one who bears this burden. A person in good health should not issue fatwas except out of necessity, and should not issue fatwas unless he has knowledge and is qualified. It is obligatory for people to fear Allah in this matter and not rush to issue fatwas without knowledge.
Because some of them listen to tapes or read from books to issue fatwas to people, while they have not understood what is in the tapes or what is in the books. They go and issue fatwas to people. This is a great calamity.
The issue of the nobleman in the winter season, specifically, is that women and men use this, and it is a means of slipping into this religion. The question is that this is not counted as a barrier, because this matter has emerged and is considered a way of sneaking into the religion.
Answer:
What is washed away by water, oils are not washed away. Never. Rather, what prevents water is the thing that solidifies on the body, solidifies on the body and prevents the water from reaching, like plaster, like gypsum, things that solidify and have a substance and a covering that prevents water from reaching the skin. This is what prevents the validity of ablution. As for dyes that have no thickness, like henna, and other known dyes that do not solidify, and also oils, there is no harm in using them, and a person performs ablution and ghusl, and his purity is valid, because the water has flowed, because it is sufficient that the water flows over the limb. And if the Shaykh is swimming, he allows the doctor to enter under compulsion.
And by way of warning, because I have heard many questions about one who issues fatwas out of ignorance, saying that nail polish and thick dyes are like a cast or like leather socks, and one wipes over them. This is ignorance. This is an ignorant fatwa, and it is not permissible to act upon it. No one from the people of knowledge has said this. It does not have the ruling of a cast, nor the ruling of leather socks. It must be removed from the place of purity, and even if one wipes over it, his purity is not valid, because the act of wiping is based on specific evidence and is not permissible except in the places where the evidence has been established. Does a person issue fatwas to people when he has no knowledge? This is a great calamity. This fatwa has become a platform for some people, and they do not refrain from issuing fatwas when they have no knowledge, no accumulation of learning, and have not studied fatwa. This is a great error, and we fear its effects on people. Yes, a fatwa is not an easy matter, because you are informing about Allah, saying this is halal and this is haram, and perhaps you mislead people, so they perform acts of worship in a manner not prescribed, and perhaps they consume prohibited things based on your fatwa, and you are the one who bears this burden. A person in good health should not issue fatwas except out of necessity, and should not issue fatwas unless he has knowledge and is qualified. It is obligatory for people to fear Allah in this matter and not rush to issue fatwas without knowledge.
Because some of them listen to tapes or read from books to issue fatwas to people, while they have not understood what is in the tapes or what is in the books. They go and issue fatwas to people. This is a great calamity.
Source
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