Issue: If one wipes over the leather socks and then removes them, does the ablution become invalid?
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The Shaykh : In another issue where there is disagreement among scholars, if a person wipes and then removes the socks, does his ritual purity become invalid?
Some scholars hold that his ritual purity becomes invalid and that a new ablution is required, but the correct view is that it does not become invalid and that his ritual purity remains.
So if someone asks: What is the evidence that his ritual purity does not become invalid? We say: What is the evidence that it does become invalid? This man wiped over the socks or the leather socks, and his ritual purity was completed by virtue of a legal proof. What is completed by virtue of a legal proof does not become invalid except by a legal proof. So bring us a proof from the Sunnah or from the Qur'an that removing the leather sock or the sock after wiping it invalidates the ablution. Search until the last day of your life, you will not find anything.
Now, if someone says: The thing that was wiped over has been removed, we say: But when the wiping over the thing was completed, what was completed?
The student: Ritual purity.
The Shaykh : The ritual purity was completed, so what invalidates it? Have you seen if a person wipes his head and then shaves it after wiping it, does his ablution become invalid? No, his ablution does not become invalid, even though the thing that was wiped, which is the hair, has been removed. So this is a clear and obvious analogy that removing the leather sock does not invalidate the ablution, and this is the correct view. So how many are the conditions for wiping over the leather socks or socks? Three: that he wears them while in a state of ritual purity, that this is in the case of minor ritual purity, not major, and the third: that it is within the time period prescribed by the Shari'ah.
Some scholars hold that his ritual purity becomes invalid and that a new ablution is required, but the correct view is that it does not become invalid and that his ritual purity remains.
So if someone asks: What is the evidence that his ritual purity does not become invalid? We say: What is the evidence that it does become invalid? This man wiped over the socks or the leather socks, and his ritual purity was completed by virtue of a legal proof. What is completed by virtue of a legal proof does not become invalid except by a legal proof. So bring us a proof from the Sunnah or from the Qur'an that removing the leather sock or the sock after wiping it invalidates the ablution. Search until the last day of your life, you will not find anything.
Now, if someone says: The thing that was wiped over has been removed, we say: But when the wiping over the thing was completed, what was completed?
The student: Ritual purity.
The Shaykh : The ritual purity was completed, so what invalidates it? Have you seen if a person wipes his head and then shaves it after wiping it, does his ablution become invalid? No, his ablution does not become invalid, even though the thing that was wiped, which is the hair, has been removed. So this is a clear and obvious analogy that removing the leather sock does not invalidate the ablution, and this is the correct view. So how many are the conditions for wiping over the leather socks or socks? Three: that he wears them while in a state of ritual purity, that this is in the case of minor ritual purity, not major, and the third: that it is within the time period prescribed by the Shari'ah.