The Ruling on Doubt Regarding Ablution
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The questioner: Qadir, did you get to something, I mean?
The Shaykh: I mean, you have nothing from me other than what you heard.
The questioner: Yes, he took my answer, I mean.
The Shaykh: You are left to know, as Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Qiyamah 75:14].
The questioner: May Allah reward you with good. If shirk (associating partners with Allah) occurred, for example, in expelling it, is there something on it, I mean, is the person certain?
The Shaykh: The rule is well known that certainty is not negated by doubt. So if a person is in a state of wudu' (the ablution for prayer) and then doubts whether something came out of him or not, this doubt does not invalidate his wudu'. And if a person is not in a state of wudu' and he is wondering, in doubt, did he perform wudu' or not? This doubt does not make him in a state of wudu', because the default is that he was
The Shaykh: I mean, you have nothing from me other than what you heard.
The questioner: Yes, he took my answer, I mean.
The Shaykh: You are left to know, as Allah the Exalted said:
Rather, man, against himself, will be a witness,
بَلِ الْإِنسَانُ عَلَىٰ نَفْسِهِ بَصِيرَةٌThe questioner: May Allah reward you with good. If shirk (associating partners with Allah) occurred, for example, in expelling it, is there something on it, I mean, is the person certain?
The Shaykh: The rule is well known that certainty is not negated by doubt. So if a person is in a state of wudu' (the ablution for prayer) and then doubts whether something came out of him or not, this doubt does not invalidate his wudu'. And if a person is not in a state of wudu' and he is wondering, in doubt, did he perform wudu' or not? This doubt does not make him in a state of wudu', because the default is that he was
Source
سلسلة الهدى والنور، المجلس 1275 — d3watuna.com (23:36)
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