If one interrupts his tawaf due to a state of ritual impurity or a need, does he resume it?

Question: The brother whose name is indicated as Q. N. A. from Cairo says in his question: A man began his tawaf, and then he passed wind. Is he required to interrupt his tawaf, or does he continue?

Answer: If a person breaks his state of ritual purity during tawaf by passing wind, urinating, ejaculating, touching his private parts, or something similar, his tawaf is interrupted just like prayer. He goes to perform ritual purity, then he resumes the tawaf. This is the correct view. There is scholarly disagreement on this issue, but this is the correct view for both tawaf and prayer; based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): It was narrated by Abu Dawud and graded authentic by Ibn Khuzaymah. Tawaf is of the same kind as prayer in general. However, if he interrupts it for a need, for example, if a man performed three circuits and then the iqamah was called for prayer, he prays and then returns to start from where he was. He is not required to return to the Black Stone; rather, he starts from where he was and completes it. This is contrary to what some scholars said: that he starts from the Black Stone.
The correct view is: he is not required to do that, as a group of scholars said. Likewise, if he attended a funeral and prayed over it, or if someone stopped him to speak to him, or if there was a crowd, or something similar, he completes his tawaf, and there is no blame on him for that. And success is from Allah.