If one performs ghusl and breaks his ritual purity during the ghusl, is his ghusl valid?

The Shaykh : Please go ahead.

The questioner : A person asked about someone who wanted to perform ghusl, so he started with wudu. When he was performing wudu, he broke his ritual purity. This is the first issue: if he breaks his ritual purity, he must start over from the beginning with the wudu and the ghusl. Then, after he performed wudu and began the ghusl by spreading the water, he broke his ritual purity. Does he have to repeat the wudu again, or does he start over from the point of spreading the water?

The Shaykh : First, your question confused me in my mind and did not settle until later, if Allah wills. Is the intention of your question that he wants to pray afterwards, or is the subject of the question not connected to prayer afterwards, but rather for the ghusl alone?

The questioner : For the ghusl alone.

The Shaykh : If you mean only this, I will tell you: if he performed ghusl without wudu, would his ghusl be a Shari'ah-prescribed ghusl or not?

The questioner : It is Shari'ah-prescribed.

The Shaykh : Good. Then you have nothing to do after that regarding the fact that he performed wudu and his wudu was invalidated, as long as he performed a valid ghusl. Because if he performed ghusl without wudu, his ghusl is valid. So if he performed ghusl and preceded it with wudu, and the wudu was invalidated, it is as if he had not performed wudu. The answer is clear, unless there is something else that I did not understand.

The questioner : It seems this is the first question, but the second aspect is that he performed wudu, then finished the wudu and started spreading the water, and then he broke his ritual purity. Does he have to repeat the ghusl, for example, if he finished the right side and wanted to continue...

The Shaykh : I told you, if you mean that he wants to pray afterwards, he must repeat the ghusl at least. But if you mean that his ghusl was completed, his ghusl is valid. However, when he wants to come to pray, he must perform wudu.

The questioner : Repeat the wudu or repeat the ghusl?

The Shaykh : No. Repeat the wudu. I said the ghusl.

Another questioner : This is if he wants to pray.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : He wanted to apply the Sunnah in the ghusl, he does not want to

The Shaykh : perform wudu. And if his wudu is invalidated, he must repeat it if he wants to follow the Sunnah.

The questioner : Our Shaykh, if you please, regarding the same question: if the man, for example, performed ghusl and did not perform wudu at the beginning, after finishing the ghusl, is he pure for prayer?

The Shaykh : And this is the meaning of the statement.

The questioner : He did not perform wudu, and during his ghusl he broke his ritual purity. Now, this means another question: he did not perform wudu, and during his ghusl he broke his ritual purity. Does he repeat the ghusl anew, or does he repeat the wudu?

The Shaykh : He repeats the ghusl, because his ghusl is not valid. His ghusl is not valid.

The questioner : He performed ghusl without wudu, broke his ritual purity during the ghusl, and then finished the ghusl. Now, is his ruling permissible for prayer or

The Shaykh : When we establish the ghusl in place of the wudu, that means the ghusl must be complete like the wudu. It is clear that some scholars condition wudu in the ghusl, meaning if he performed a complete ghusl and did not precede the ghusl with wudu, he is not allowed to pray until he performs wudu. But the majority of scholars, and this is what we have considered, is that the wudu before the ghusl is part of the completion of the Sunnah, as mentioned in the answer just now. But if we imagine a person who performed ghusl and did not perform wudu, his ghusl takes the place of the wudu if it remains without being invalidated, otherwise it does not.