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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Doubt after completing the ablution and using cold water

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The questioner:
We do not know.

The Shaykh:
The important thing is that pouring water is sufficient for the ablution and for the full ritual bath; pouring is sufficient. However, if rubbing is done along with it, all of this is better because it ensures the water reaches the body. Yes, does anyone have a question, or is that all? Is today considered the start where we lighten the load for you? Yes, indeed. Hmm? This will come, if Allah wills, either at the end of the chapter on ablution, as I believe, or in the chapter on the amount of water. With five mudds. The most narrated is that he performed ablution with five mudds. He performed ablution with five mudds. And the most he performed ablution with was one mudd, yes? No, no, five mudds, five mudds, yes, because the sa' itself is four mudds, yes.

The questioner:
We defend the Shaykh. We look at the kitchen.

The Shaykh:
Hmm? No, it is better that he does not look. It is better that he does not look. Once a person finishes the act of worship, this is a rule: once a person finishes the act of worship, he does not turn to the doubt. If he performs ablution and finishes, he does not turn to the doubt. The devil comes and says, "Look at your feet, look at your fingers." No, that is enough. If a person does the act of worship and finishes it, he continues, praise be to Allah. If a person prays and turns to the obsessive thoughts, the devil comes and says, "You left a rak'ah, you did not prostrate, you did not say Subhan Rabbi al-Azim." As long as he has said the closing salam of the prayer and finished, he does not turn to the doubt. Hmm?

The questioner:
Until the person causes [confusion] among the children.

The Shaykh:
By moving, clarify the moving.

The questioner:
Yes.

The Shaykh:
During the moving, yes. Yes.

The questioner:
Winter. If a person finds empty water or stagnant water.

The Shaykh:
If he finds what?

The questioner:
Yes.

The Shaykh:
No, no, it is not permissible except to use the cold and the warm one he has. This is considered an excessive burden. But if a person, even if he has only cold water and it is difficult for him, if the cold water is difficult for him or makes him ill, it is not permissible for him to use it. Let him perform dry ablution with clean earth, as 'Amr ibn al-'As (may Allah be pleased with him) did,
Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacityلَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
[Al-Baqarah 2:286]
. But if a person performs ablution in a cold place, even if the water is hot, he will feel the cold, without a doubt. Yes.

The questioner:
He works with it. If he works with it in the first place.

The Shaykh:
He works with love for the water, even if the time has passed. He works with the condition, obtaining the condition. He works with obtaining the condition, meaning, because using water is a condition for the validity of the prayer, so he works to obtain it, even if the time has passed.

The questioner:
I am telling you.

The Shaykh:
Yes.

The questioner:
Or that it be.

The Shaykh:
With the presence of cold water, if he cannot use the cold water, or he fears that he will be afflicted with an illness, or he is a sick person, a sick person, if he uses the water, he will get a cold and a fever, this is what he does not use the water, he performs dry ablution with clean earth, praise be to Allah.
Source شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، تابع باب الوضوء - 4 — islamhouse.com (30:50)

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