Is it permissible for one who has worn leather socks and wiped over them, then put them on again, to wipe over them a second time?

The questioner : This is a recurring issue in [the fatwas], I think, but sometimes the similarity causes confusion in some of the rulings. If a person takes off his leather socks after wiping over them to enter the mosque or elsewhere, and then takes them off, and then wants to leave and puts the leather socks back on, is it permissible for him to wipe after taking them off and putting them on?

The Shaykh: No.

The questioner : It is not permissible.

Another questioner : Unless he is still on the first wudu, Shaykh? If he is on the same wudu?

The questioner : Excuse me, okay, Shaykh, what invalidated the wiping?

The Shaykh : Khul'.

The questioner : Taking them off?

The Shaykh : Yes, because when he goes to put them back on, it is not true that he put them on while in a state of complete purity.

The questioner : It is not true that he put them on while in a state of complete purity!

The Shaykh : What is complete purity?

The questioner : Of course, you mean washing the feet.

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : That is, the complete wudu including washing the feet.

The Shaykh : Unlike if he performed wudu and put them on, and his wudu remained as it was.

The questioner : He performed wudu?

The Shaykh : Then took them off, then put them on.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : It does not harm him, but when he came and wiped over them, then took them off, and then returned to them, when he returned to them, it is not true that the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) applies to him: .

The questioner : Yes, so this is good, Shaykh. This detail revealed to me a matter that was absent from my mind. If he did not wipe, it applies to him, but if the wiping occurred, it does not apply to him. Yes, may Allah honor you, my Shaykh.

The Shaykh : What did you say when you came?

The questioner : No, I finished. I raised the issue of taking off the socks.