Found blood on my socks

format_quote Originally Posted by Aaqib

After taraweeh I found blood on my socks... the question is, what is my state of the prayers I perfomed.. the oblig: Maghrib and Ishaa?

Depends on if you have a wound on your feet on not. If there's no wound, then no. But if there is, then you have to repeat those Salaats because your Wudhoo broke. According to the Hanafi Madh-hab, bleeding causes the Wudhoo to break.

format_quote Originally Posted by Simple_Person

Valid. Just because you have a wound doesn't nullify your wudu. Remember Umar ibn Khattab (ra) when he was stabbed (before his death) ..he preformed the prayer while bleeding as far as i have heard/read.

That is a different scenario. Such a person is known as a "Ma`dhoor" (one who is excused). His bleeding cannot stop because the injury is severe. Thus, he will have to make Salaah like that, performing a fresh Wudhoo for each Salaah. But that is not applicable to normal cases of bleeding.

والله تعالى أعلم

والسلام

عن تميم الداري رضي الله عنه قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: الوضوء من كل دم سائل

Hadhrat Tameem ad-Daari رضي الله عنه narrates that Rasoolullaah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "Wudhoo is from every flowing blood." [Narrated in Mirqaat al-Mafaateeh, Sharh Mishkaat al-Masaabeeh.]

@huzaifah ibn Adam,I am not sure what you are trying to say..but it looks like you are saying when you even bleed just a little bit ..wufu is nullified however I have never heard or read this. Besides that I have not gotten any authentic ahadith about it. The ahadith you gave I am not sure how to read or understand it.

We know of the monthly cycle of women or vomiting I believe or just going to the bathroom. In all those cases it comes from the body from a existent exit/entrance.

https://islamqa.info/en/13676

Besides the ruling I also go by logic, rationality and reason. With using such method it comes to thinking for myself by somebody giving me authentic evidence. In all the cases for example from intimacy to going to bathroom to vomiting it is sort of "indication"...I am coming so you better know even the case of touching a the hand of a non-mahram hand (although I know some scholars do not go by that). In any case you have "control" over those cases. I know even of the case of IF you were not sure you passed wind then still your wudu is valid. But often certainty above uncertainty which I could agree. In all the cases you have control over it. Also for example when EATING camel meat. With wounds you do not so you will be held responsible for something you did not know or on intention caused your self.

So where do i base this whole "method" of mine?

"O you who have believed, (1) obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you. (2) And if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allah and the Messenger, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is the best [way] and best in result." Qur'an 4:59

Allah first says (1) "obey Allah AND his Rasul(saws) AND those in authority among you". 1 + 1 + 1= 3. (2) When disagreement exists, then ONLY to Allah AND Rasullah(saws). Firstly i have done (1) as i see people in authority based on religion off course especially in these days are the scholars. However looking at the scholars they say indeed just that..(it does not nullify the wudu as they also have no evidence that says otherwise). If they would have said otherwise, WITHOUT authentic (a)hadith or aya(at), then i had a LEGIT reason to "disobey" them, and follow Allah AND His Rasul(saws)..which is..Qur'an AND Sunnah.

Another approach is the balanced approach.

"The month of Ramadhan [is that] in which was revealed the Qur'an, a guidance for the people and clear proofs of guidance and criterion. So whoever sights [the new moon of] the month, let him fast it; and whoever is ill or on a journey - then an equal number of other days. (3) Allah intends for you ease and does not intend for you hardship and [wants] for you to complete the period and to glorify Allah for that [to] which He has guided you; and perhaps you will be grateful." Qur'an 2:185

(3), A wound has the "bad" habit of becoming a wound without you even knowing of it. If lets say this wound indeed would nullify the wudu, this rather becomes a hardship upon a Muslim, which would be contradictory to what Allah says in this aya. As i before EVERY prayer have to check my whole body for if i am bleeding from somewhere.

So it is using the mind and thinking for ourselves. Blindly following and going to extremes ONLY makes our religion hard for ourselves. For example in my own family they blindly follow the imaam and during Ramadan if they have forgotten to brush their teeth and the day has began (fasting), they do NOT brush their teeth anymore or even case of wudu they do not rinse their mouth..because they have become so extreme in not having anything in their mouth. While one of the criteria that does away of your fasting that day is rather eating/drinking or taking fluids in general that would be part of the body. If not brushing the teeth, it would also mean not using the siwak it also means doing harm to the teeth as it is not being cleaned. Which is contradictory even to Islam promoting cleanliness.

We Muslims have become VERY extreme in taking religious duties while in VARIOUS cases we have read that Rasullah(saws) was balanced in doing things. From people coming to him and asking if they could kiss the wife during Ramadan to new Muslims doing less rak'aat of prayer, to some occasions drinking while standing..

Sub'han'Allah i was just thinking and Rasullah(saws) surely has spoken the truth.

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""You will most certainly follow the ways of those who came before you, arm's length by arm's length, forearm's length by forearm's length, hand span by hand span, until even if they entered a hole of a mastigure (lizard) you will enter it too. "They said:" o Messenger of Allah, (do you mean) the Jews and the Christians? "He said:" Who else? "

Source used: https://sunnah.com/ibnmajah/36/69
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We recite al-fatiha (Qur'an 1:1-7) during every prayer but this hadith surely shows that we indeed follow that path of the previous people. Jews have made the religion only as rulings without faith (strict rulings for example). While Christians have made faith without rulings (blindly following for example). In both cases we Muslims do both of them. We look at those rulings as if Allah is a dictator (May Allah protect us from thinking like that) or as if by doing that it makes you suddenly a good Muslim.


"Prohibited to you are dead animals, blood, the flesh of swine, and that which has been dedicated to other than Allah , and [those animals] killed by strangling or by a violent blow or by a head-long fall or by the goring of horns, and those from which a wild animal has eaten, except what you [are able to] slaughter [before its death], and those which are sacrificed on stone altars, and [prohibited is] that you seek decision through divining arrows. That is grave disobedience. This day those who disbelieve have despaired of [defeating] your religion; so fear them not, but fear Me. This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion. But whoever is forced by severe hunger with no inclination to sin - then indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." Qur'an 5:3

May Allah give us knowledge but ESPECIALLY wisdom of the knowledge He gives us, so we always stay on the balanced path.