Text copied Link copied

Al-Fatawa – home

﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

Scholar
Search mode

The invalidation of wudu' during the tawaf of 'Umrah and what is required

Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner:
This questioner, Abu Muhammad, says: Shaykh Salih, I performed 'Umrah before my marriage, and my wudu' was invalidated during it. So I renewed my wudu' several times, and that kept happening to me during the tawaf, and I found it difficult, and I completed the tawaf out of ignorance on my part, and I completed the 'Umrah, but I was unable to perform a second 'Umrah due to an illness that befell me. What is required of me?

The Shaykh:
If your wudu' was invalidated during the tawaf, in the tawaf of 'Umrah, then the tawaf is not valid, and consequently the 'Umrah is not valid; because purity is a condition for the tawaf, as it is a prayer, as in the hadith
Tawaf around the House is similar to Salat except that you talk during itطواف بالبيت صلاة إلا أنكم تتكلمون فيه
Jami` at-Tirmidhi 960Hasan (Darussalam)
. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said to 'A'ishah when she had her menstruation
So do what all the pilgrims do except that you do not perform the Tawaf round the Ka`ba till you are clean.افعلي ما يفعل الحاج غير أن لا تطوفي بالبيت حتى تطهري
Sahih al-Bukhari 305
. Purity is required for the tawaf: purity from major and minor ritual impurity, and purity from ritual impurity in the body and the garment. So a person purifies himself as he purifies himself for prayer. If he performs tawaf without wudu', or his wudu' is invalidated during the tawaf, his tawaf is invalid. He must perform wudu' or purify himself anew, then resume the tawaf from the beginning. Since you performed tawaf while in a state of ritual impurity with your wudu' invalidated, and your tawaf is not valid, and consequently your 'Umrah is not valid, and you are still in the state of ihram with it, if you performed a 'Umrah after that, then it takes its place, and praise be to Allah. And if you did not perform a 'Umrah after that, but rather you say that you fell ill and you are in your illness, then the ihram remains upon you. So if Allah grants you healing, you put on the clothes of ihram as they were, and you avoid the prohibitions of ihram, and you go and perform the 'Umrah.
You perform the 'Umrah. You say that you contracted the marriage. In this ihram that you did not complete, and it remains upon you, the one in ihram does not contract marriage, nor is he contracted in marriage, nor does he propose. So this contract is not valid, so it must be renewed after you perform the 'Umrah correctly, the one with which you entered ihram and what happened to you happened; you are still in ihram with it. Yes.

The questioner:
Shaykh, there are two points if one is among those who suffer from urinary incontinence or obsessive doubts.

The Shaykh:
If he suffers from urinary incontinence on a permanent basis, then his ruling is the ruling of one whose state of impurity is permanent. He performs wudu' when he wants to perform tawaf, he cleans himself, and he places a protective device on his penis to prevent the leakage of urine, then he performs wudu' and performs tawaf according to his condition, just as he prays according to his condition, even if urine comes out of him, because he cannot do more than that. As for obsessive doubts, he leaves them and does not pay attention to them, because they are from Satan. If he feels them, he seeks refuge in Allah from Satan and does not pay attention to the obsessive doubts and does not worry about them. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (070) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1435-11-22] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (9:23)

The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.

Flag this fatwa