Is it permissible to perform wudu' while there is dye or paint on the hand?

The questioner : Al-Tarish

The Shaykh : How?

The questioner : Al-Tarish appears on the face and hands; a lot of things come from the spray. What is your opinion regarding wudu'?

The Shaykh : It is not permissible.

The questioner : They say it does not come off easily...

The Shaykh : One has to use... to remove the paint. What do you call it?

The questioner : Thinner.

The Shaykh : Ah, thinner. Look, my dear, it is obligatory to use the available means to remove this paint. If some residue remains after using the available means, you are not required to peel your skin in order to remove this paint. Do you understand? A person is in one of three states. The first state is that he does not care, as if he considers it water, but it is not water; it is a barrier preventing water from reaching the skin, which we are commanded to wet. This is, of course, not permissible, and his wudu' is invalid, and consequently his prayer is invalid. This is not what we want to be. Between him and another man who uses the available means, but the effect does not disappear completely, and this is obligatory for every Muslim. The third means is the opposite of the first, meaning excess and negligence, and the middle path. What we mentioned as the third is that he scratches it, scratches it, scratches it until the skin comes off. This is harm to the body, which is not permissible in the Shari'ah. So, if you use the means you know, the thinner is more effective for us, and it removes the paint. If some residue remains, it does not harm you, by the saying of the Exalted: Is that clear?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : May Allah reward you. Is there anything else, O Abu 'Abdullah? Ah, O Abu 'Abdullah, is there anything else?

The questioner : ...

The Shaykh : Gloves, O Abu 'Abd al-Rahman. Do you want to make a glove that reaches up to here?

The questioner : There are some available.

The Shaykh : If they are available, it is permissible.

The questioner : There are

The Shaykh : Please go ahead.
Abu Layla : Shaykh, in our previous discussion, it was stated that it is not permissible to place projects in the money endowed for zakah, and the conclusion of the discussion was that voluntary charity is permissible in them. But I heard the word "zakah" from the brother Tariq while you were asking him. I don't know... meaning, did the word "zakah" come from him?

The Shaykh : No, you did not pay attention when I asked him, and I told him, "Your discussion is still about charity, not zakah," and he said, "Yes."
Abu Layla : I understand, Shaykh. After we finished with zakah, in the discussion of zakah, I heard the word "zakah" from him during the discussion of voluntary charity.

The Shaykh : Okay, I will relieve you and him. Give me the recording where you heard this from him.
Abu Layla : The headphones, Shaykh, are not with me...

The Shaykh : Okay, who has the recording? Did you record it?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : Bring it so we can see.

The questioner : There are problems with the hadith; we will ask him later. Abu Yusuf used to help us and do research and study for us. Truly, he works hard, by Allah, meaning, right now...

The Shaykh : By Allah, I do not have a personal connection with some of our brothers who work on hadith there. And of course, I look at some of the papers they have written and publish, but I do not have an idea to say this or that. And this idea is not available to me merely by looking at one or two athar. This requires personal interaction and knowing how he handles the hadith and his fiqh in them, and so on. I know that many of these young men who write make many mistakes in writing the Arabic language, meaning, they put the nominative case where the accusative is required, and they put the accusative where the nominative is required, and so on. So I feel that they are not students of knowledge who have studied knowledge from all its necessary aspects. But regarding exactly what you are asking me about, I do not have an idea because I have not connected with this al-Huwayni...

The questioner : Egyptian.

The Shaykh : Yes, Egyptian. I saw some of his athar, and he guided me to some manuscripts, and they are still in his handwriting, meaning... Then we gathered here, and we used to go every day to pray the Fajr prayer in a mosque here, far away, perhaps eight kilometers. We would pray the Fajr prayer. After much insistence from him that he wanted time to ask questions and record them so he could benefit from them, after much insistence, we agreed with him that we would pray there. We, of course, would go before he arrived, because the imam there is a Salafi and a good reciter. After the prayer, we would give him five minutes, and so it was. He would ask, and I would answer, on the recorder, and I was in the car. So I felt from his questions that he had a high level of knowledge of hadith, its tracing, and its references and sources, and so on. As for the brothers you are referring to, I do not know much about any of them, unfortunately.

The questioner : In al-Jazirah, the person whose name was mentioned, I did not hear it well. Who is it other than al-Huwayni?

The Shaykh : This is in Yemen, Maqbul al-Yamani.

The questioner : Maqbul al-Yamani.

The Shaykh : Yes, this is one of my students at the Islamic University. He is one of the strongest known in the Islamic community now in working on the science of hadith.

The questioner : Stronger than al-Huwayni, O Shaykh, or is al-Huwayni stronger than him?

The Shaykh : I cannot compare them, because comparison truly requires looking at many sources, and this is far from us.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good. Al-Huwayni is kind and has proper etiquette in knowing the value of knowledge and scholars. May Allah reward him with good. It was one of the moments following him when he asked you for the five minutes, and may Allah reward you with good. You used to extend it from ten to fifteen minutes. You could see his eagerness and feel that he wanted to benefit. One day...The Shaykh : He did not wake up for Fajr and did not go to the mosque, so he was waiting, and he did not come.The Shaykh : He said, "What should I do?" He said, "I will go to his house." They told him, "He will tell you to go back."The Shaykh : Because you have your own appointments. He said, "I don't care. I want to take the recorder and put it on the speaker and hear the word 'go back to the Shaykh.' Is this from the Sunnah?" He put the recorder on the door intercom, as they call it, and said...The Shaykh : "Who is it?" He said, "It's me." He said, "Welcome, please come in." He said, "O Shaykh, I..." He said, "Please come in." So he entered the garden, had breakfast, and sat with...The Shaykh : For an hour or an hour and a half asking questions. He said, "I came out with a lot of good, and I did not accept the word 'go back' at all..."

The Shaykh : Okay, do you have anything else? Subhanak Allaha wa bihamdika, ashdhu an la ilaha illa anta, astaghfiruka wa atubu ilayk.

The questioner : May Allah bless your life, if Allah wills...