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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Does touching a woman invalidate the ablution?

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The Shaykh : Regarding touching a woman, does it invalidate the ablution or not?
Some scholars said: "Be careful, my brothers. Some scholars said that it invalidates the ablution absolutely. Others said it does not invalidate it absolutely. And others among the scholars distinguished, saying that it invalidates the ablution if there is desire, but not if there is no desire. That is, some scholars say that if you touch a woman for any reason, you must perform ablution. If you touched the hand of an old woman to guide her to the road, we would say your ablution is invalidated, so go and perform ablution. If you touched your wife's hand for any reason, such as taking a cup of tea from her and your finger touched her finger, the ablution is invalidated. And some scholars said that the ablution is not invalidated even if you touched her with desire, as long as nothing comes out of you. This is the correct opinion: that there is no invalidation by touching a woman absolutely, even with desire. So if a man touches his wife with desire or kisses her while he is in a state of ablution, his ablution remains, because the original state is the continuation of the ablution, unless something comes out of him, such as pre-seminal fluid or something similar to it.
Now, if someone says, "Does not Allah say:
or you have contacted women أو لامستم النساء
[An-Nisa 4:43]
" We say, yes. How do you say that touching a woman does not invalidate the ablution? I say that the meaning of "touching" here is intercourse, as it is authentically reported from the interpreter of the Qur'an, 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), that the meaning of "touching" is intercourse. And just as this is the correct report, it is also the correct interpretation and context. How? "The excretion of urine" we said is a reference to what? To the minor ritual impurity. "You touched women" is a reference to the major ritual impurity. So in the verse...
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