The Ruling on the Ablution of One Who Faints and One Who Suffers from Epilepsy
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Question:
A sister of ours from Morocco, Aisha, we presented some of her questions in a previous session, and in this session she asks and says: Do those who experience moments of unconsciousness have their ablution invalidated or not?
Answer:
This requires detail: Like sleep, if it is something slight that does not remove consciousness, and does not prevent sensing the release of a state of ritual impurity, then it does not harm. Like a sleeper who dozes off, experiencing a light drowsiness, not falling into deep sleep, hearing people, hearing movement; this does not harm him. His purity is valid until he knows that something has come out of him. Similarly, if the unconsciousness does not prevent sensing, like one who took some medicines or some things that may cause some unconsciousness in him, but it is not complete, and he senses the state of ritual impurity with it, hears speech, he is like the dozing person.
As for if the unconsciousness prevents him from sensing what comes out of him, like the drunkard, and the one afflicted with a disease that deprived him of his senses, so he is in unconsciousness, then his ablution is invalidated like fainting, like one who fainted for any of the reasons, for it is greater than sleep, and the ablution is invalidated with it. Yes.
The presenter: The ones afflicted with epilepsy, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
The Shaykh: Likewise, it is greater. If he has an epileptic fit, then Allah heals him and the epilepsy leaves him, he performs ablution.
The presenter: May Allah bless you.
A sister of ours from Morocco, Aisha, we presented some of her questions in a previous session, and in this session she asks and says: Do those who experience moments of unconsciousness have their ablution invalidated or not?
Answer:
This requires detail: Like sleep, if it is something slight that does not remove consciousness, and does not prevent sensing the release of a state of ritual impurity, then it does not harm. Like a sleeper who dozes off, experiencing a light drowsiness, not falling into deep sleep, hearing people, hearing movement; this does not harm him. His purity is valid until he knows that something has come out of him. Similarly, if the unconsciousness does not prevent sensing, like one who took some medicines or some things that may cause some unconsciousness in him, but it is not complete, and he senses the state of ritual impurity with it, hears speech, he is like the dozing person.
As for if the unconsciousness prevents him from sensing what comes out of him, like the drunkard, and the one afflicted with a disease that deprived him of his senses, so he is in unconsciousness, then his ablution is invalidated like fainting, like one who fainted for any of the reasons, for it is greater than sleep, and the ablution is invalidated with it. Yes.
The presenter: The ones afflicted with epilepsy, Your Eminence the Shaykh?
The Shaykh: Likewise, it is greater. If he has an epileptic fit, then Allah heals him and the epilepsy leaves him, he performs ablution.
The presenter: May Allah bless you.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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