Explanation of the author's statement: "And maintaining the remembrance of it in all of them, and it is obligatory to maintain its ruling."

The Shaykh : He said "And maintaining the remembrance of it in all of them", meaning that it is also recommended to maintain the remembrance of it in all of them. The remembrance here does not mean with the tongue, but rather it means remembering it in the heart. It is recommended for a person to maintain the remembrance of the intention in his heart throughout the entire act of purification. If it slips from his mind, for example, if someone is performing wudu' and there is a person with him who is talking to him, and he intended the wudu' at the beginning of the act, but the intention slipped from his heart during the conversation, does this harm him or not? It does not harm him, because maintaining the remembrance of it is a recommended practice. We have previously pointed out that a person should remember the intention when washing each limb, intending thereby to obey the command of Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and keeping in mind that he is following the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). Now, if his tongue precedes his intention without his deliberate aim, what is the criterion? The criterion is what is in the heart. If it is assumed that he intended to perform wudu' and spoke the intention based on the recommendation of speaking it, but in his heart he intended to take a bath, or if in his heart he intended wudu' but then at the time of the act he intended the bath, what is relied upon: the resolve of his heart or the thought that occurred to him? It is the resolve of the heart. For this reason, if a questioner asks about a man who intended to enter the state of ihram for Hajj alone, but because he frequently performs 'Umrah, he said "Labbaik 'Umrah" while he did not intend 'Umrah, but rather intended Hajj, by what is his ihram for Hajj established? Because the consideration is for what is in the heart. For this reason, Allah (Mighty and Majestic) said: And the other verse is: Yes, it is recommended to maintain the remembrance of it. "Remembrance" here means remembering the reason for remembering it in his heart throughout the entire purification. And it is obligatory to maintain its ruling. It is obligatory to maintain the ruling, and the meaning of maintaining the ruling is that one does not intend to break it. So the intention, in terms of maintaining it, has three states: that one maintains the remembrance of it from the beginning of the wudu' to the end, and this is the most complete of the states; that it slips from his mind but he did not intend to break it, and this is called maintaining the ruling, meaning he built upon its original ruling and proceeded with it without invalidating it; and the third is that he intends to break it, because he intended to break the intention of wudu' during his wudu', but he continued washing his feet, for example, to clean them of mud. What do you say about this? Is his wudu' valid or not? It is not valid. Why? Because he did not maintain the ruling, since he broke the intention during the act of worship. Now, in a fourth state, after he has finished all his limbs.