The ruling on applying nail polish that prevents water from reaching the skin
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Question:
Also, some women are lax about applying nail polish during their time of purity, which prevents water from reaching what is underneath it. Perhaps they pray and recite the Qur'an. So if you would clarify the ruling on that, Honorable Shaykh, and is it permissible to liken nail polish to socks and wipe over it, as some women do?
Answer:
Anything that solidifies on the skin or on the fingernails, such as dyes, is not permissible, because it prevents water from reaching what is underneath it. Consequently, his ritual purity is not valid, because a part of his body remained without water reaching it, or a part of a limb of the ablution remained without water reaching it. If water does not reach the rest of the body or part of a limb, then the ritual purity is not valid.
As for the one who says that this is like socks, that is an error. This is not like socks. Socks are a dispensation, and wiping over them is a dispensation. Wiping over socks and over leather socks came down, but this is a dispensation. And a dispensation is not extended by analogy to other things for which no evidence has come. This opinion has no evidence and no analogy. Dispensations are restricted to what has come down; nothing is added to them, and nothing is analogized to them, because they are exceptional. They are exceptional in that they are determined by the Lawgiver. It is not permissible for us to exercise independent legal reasoning and establish dispensations on our own and say, "This is an analogy to such and such." Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
Also, some women are lax about applying nail polish during their time of purity, which prevents water from reaching what is underneath it. Perhaps they pray and recite the Qur'an. So if you would clarify the ruling on that, Honorable Shaykh, and is it permissible to liken nail polish to socks and wipe over it, as some women do?
Answer:
Anything that solidifies on the skin or on the fingernails, such as dyes, is not permissible, because it prevents water from reaching what is underneath it. Consequently, his ritual purity is not valid, because a part of his body remained without water reaching it, or a part of a limb of the ablution remained without water reaching it. If water does not reach the rest of the body or part of a limb, then the ritual purity is not valid.
As for the one who says that this is like socks, that is an error. This is not like socks. Socks are a dispensation, and wiping over them is a dispensation. Wiping over socks and over leather socks came down, but this is a dispensation. And a dispensation is not extended by analogy to other things for which no evidence has come. This opinion has no evidence and no analogy. Dispensations are restricted to what has come down; nothing is added to them, and nothing is analogized to them, because they are exceptional. They are exceptional in that they are determined by the Lawgiver. It is not permissible for us to exercise independent legal reasoning and establish dispensations on our own and say, "This is an analogy to such and such." Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 21 من 27|أحكام المرأة في الصيام|أعمال البر والخير تقوم بها المرأة المسلمة في وقت عادتها|صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (2:06)
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