Does removing the leather socks after wiping over them invalidate the ablution?

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, does removing the leather socks invalidate the ablution?

Answer:
If one wipes over the leather socks or over the socks and then removes them, his ablution is invalidated, because the thing over which the wiping was performed has been removed, and so the dispensation is removed. The dispensation was only in place as long as the barrier existed; when the barrier is removed, one returns to the default ruling, which is the ablution.