The ruling on increasing the number of times one sniffs water during wudu due to a cold
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The questioner:
Your Eminence, a questioner has sent you this question. He says: If a person has a cold, known as influenza, and needs to sniff water more than three times, does he do so in his wudu?
The Shaykh:
How does he need to sniff water more than three times? It appears that the sniffing affects him, and he does not need to reduce the sniffing so that it does not affect him. Everyone, except the one who loves influenza or something else, has three times as the maximum limit.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
One sniffs water for the sake of cleaning; if he were to sniff a hundred times, that would be fine. But for the sake of worship and wudu, he does not exceed three times.
Your Eminence, a questioner has sent you this question. He says: If a person has a cold, known as influenza, and needs to sniff water more than three times, does he do so in his wudu?
The Shaykh:
How does he need to sniff water more than three times? It appears that the sniffing affects him, and he does not need to reduce the sniffing so that it does not affect him. Everyone, except the one who loves influenza or something else, has three times as the maximum limit.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
One sniffs water for the sake of cleaning; if he were to sniff a hundred times, that would be fine. But for the sake of worship and wudu, he does not exceed three times.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [55\ 3436] حكم زيادة عدد مرات الاستنشاق في الوضوء بسبب الزكام | الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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