The Ablution and the Full Ritual Bath After Apostasy and Repentance
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The questioner:
The presenter said: Honorable Shaykh, he says: By Allah, if a man is just.
The Shaykh:
He says: If a man performed the ablution or the full ritual bath for major ritual impurity, and then he committed an act of apostasy, which is one of the nullifiers of Islam, and then he repented, do you say he must repeat the ablution? The school of thought says yes, he repeats the ablution because the ablution is nullified by apostasy. But the correct view is that when he repents, his ablution returns to him, and he does not need a second ablution, because he did not commit a new act of ritual impurity and no other nullifiers occurred, and the apostasy was removed, praise be to Allah, by the repentance.
The questioner:
And I do not say more than that. Yes.
The Shaykh:
Or it is not obligatory. Yes.
The questioner:
If it was a matter of wealth.
The Shaykh:
People used to embrace Islam during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and it is not reported that he ordered every person who embraced Islam to perform the full ritual bath. He ordered some of them, he ordered some of them, and he did not order all of them. This indicates that performing the full ritual bath for one who embraces Islam or repents from apostasy is not obligatory. Yes.
The presenter said: Honorable Shaykh, he says: By Allah, if a man is just.
The Shaykh:
He says: If a man performed the ablution or the full ritual bath for major ritual impurity, and then he committed an act of apostasy, which is one of the nullifiers of Islam, and then he repented, do you say he must repeat the ablution? The school of thought says yes, he repeats the ablution because the ablution is nullified by apostasy. But the correct view is that when he repents, his ablution returns to him, and he does not need a second ablution, because he did not commit a new act of ritual impurity and no other nullifiers occurred, and the apostasy was removed, praise be to Allah, by the repentance.
The questioner:
And I do not say more than that. Yes.
The Shaykh:
Or it is not obligatory. Yes.
The questioner:
If it was a matter of wealth.
The Shaykh:
People used to embrace Islam during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and it is not reported that he ordered every person who embraced Islam to perform the full ritual bath. He ordered some of them, he ordered some of them, and he did not order all of them. This indicates that performing the full ritual bath for one who embraces Islam or repents from apostasy is not obligatory. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 23 من 89|شرح العدة في شرح العمدة|البيوع|باب الرهن|صالح الفوزان|الفقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:12:35)
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