Also, he asks: What is the ruling on touching the private parts, whether the front or the back, especially the passage or the two passages?
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The questioner : Also, he asks: What is the ruling on touching the private parts, whether the front or the back, especially the passage or the two passages?
The Shaykh : He means...
The questioner : Yes, during the ablution, and the person is in a state of ablution.
The Shaykh : I mean, does he intend that this invalidates the ablution?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : The correct view in my opinion is that touching the private parts does not invalidate the ablution, because the narrations regarding this matter are varied, and the original ruling is that it does not invalidate it. However, the reconciliation between the hadith of Talq ibn 'Ali, when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about a man who touches his penis during prayer, "Does he need to perform ablution?" and he said:Bulugh al-Maram 72, and the hadith of Busrah, Sunan Abi Dawud 181Sahih (Al-Albani), allows us to derive from these two hadiths that if a person touches his penis with desire, he must perform ablution, and if he touches it without desire, he does not have to perform ablution. This would be a reconciliation between the two hadiths. This reconciliation is indicated by the fact that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) explained that it does not invalidate the ablution because it is a part of the body. So if it is a part of you, touching it is like touching the other limbs, just as if a person touches his other hand, or his leg, or his head, or his nose, or any part of his body, his ablution is not invalidated. Similarly, the penis: if he touches it without desire, it is like touching the other limbs. But if he touches it with desire, it differs from touching the other limbs. So the reconciliation between the two hadiths is to say: if he touches his penis with desire, his ablution is invalidated, and if he touches it without desire, it is not invalidated.
Some scholars reconciled it with another reconciliation, stating that the command in his saying: is not on the basis of obligation, but rather on the basis of recommendation.
In any case, the obligation of ablution from touching the penis absolutely, or the private parts absolutely, is questionable, and the correct view in my opinion is the opposite.
The questioner : But a person touching his front private part during prayer would not do so except through a barrier, and this could be...
The Shaykh : If it is through a barrier, it is not considered touching, it is not said that he touched it, because touching is the direct contact of one thing with another.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And if he touches it through a barrier, he has only touched the garment.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Then, it is possible for him to touch it without a barrier, especially in the early times, when they had only shirts, so he could put his hand in to scratch it or the like.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The Shaykh : He means...
The questioner : Yes, during the ablution, and the person is in a state of ablution.
The Shaykh : I mean, does he intend that this invalidates the ablution?
The questioner : Yes, yes.
The Shaykh : The correct view in my opinion is that touching the private parts does not invalidate the ablution, because the narrations regarding this matter are varied, and the original ruling is that it does not invalidate it. However, the reconciliation between the hadith of Talq ibn 'Ali, when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about a man who touches his penis during prayer, "Does he need to perform ablution?" and he said:
it is only a part of your body
إنما هو بَضعة منكHe who touches his penis should perform ablution.
من مس ذكره فليتوضأSome scholars reconciled it with another reconciliation, stating that the command in his saying:
Let him perform ablution.
فليتوضأIn any case, the obligation of ablution from touching the penis absolutely, or the private parts absolutely, is questionable, and the correct view in my opinion is the opposite.
The questioner : But a person touching his front private part during prayer would not do so except through a barrier, and this could be...
The Shaykh : If it is through a barrier, it is not considered touching, it is not said that he touched it, because touching is the direct contact of one thing with another.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : And if he touches it through a barrier, he has only touched the garment.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Then, it is possible for him to touch it without a barrier, especially in the early times, when they had only shirts, so he could put his hand in to scratch it or the like.
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Yes.