Yasir Qadhi – Ask Shaykh YQ – Episode 34 – To Wipe or Not to Wipe

			One brother emails and says, I pray the Lord at my workplace every single day and obviously it is
time for her and I feel uncomfortable washing my feet in the sink for obvious reasons. I know
there's a controversy over massage or wiping over the socks. Can you please explain to us and give
us what your position is on the wiping over the socks okay? on
		

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			So this is the simple question must massage over the socks not over the shoe or over the hole for
the leather. So realize, dear brother in Islam and all of us benefit from this brothers and sisters
because the rulings apply to both men and women. There's no difference of opinion between men and
women when it comes to wiping over the socks exactly the same applies to men applies to women
realize that wiping over a full covering that is impermeable from water, which is leather or
something of that nature. Wiping over a full covering of the foot that covers the ankles and is
impermeable, is unanimously accepted by all of the scholars of Islam or I should say although the
		

			scholars of Sunni Islam so much so that it became a point of theology. You find this in Al Qaeda how
we know that Sunni Muslims believe it is permissible to wipe over the hoof which is the leather sock
Why? Because the other non Sunni group said you don't have to this thing is not permissible. So the
non Sunni group the famous nurses only one nonsense the famous group right? When I say non Sunni
there's one group you should think of it says you're not allowed to wipe over the sock and the How
odd is that you cannot wipe out the socks and others said you cannot wipe over sorry not sock the
leather sock let's say so it became a point of theology because so many a hadith mentioned the
		

			processes of wiping over the leather sock which is the hole in Arabic so all the muda hit agree. And
this is something you will find no controversy that if you're wearing a covering that covers the
ankle, and that is impermeable to water which is leather for example or anything impermeable to
water right. And you have will do and you put your feet into the this shoe or this leather sock in
the state of will do that you may then do massage one day when you're not traveling, and three days
if you are traveling. This is unanimous no lifted off. But who wears leather socks in our times?
Nobody. So the love comes over what issue this is why I want you to be clear here. The controversy
		

			is over socks that are permeable. That's the controversy. It's not over massage. Some people don't
understand say oh, there's a controversy over massage. No, there is no controversy over massage
zero. It is by unanimous consensus allowed and even the Koran references the permissibility of
Messiah in Surah tenma verse six, the famous one and it's a bit advanced. But basically what are
Judo converses while Judah can, you can explicitly derive mussaf from the verse in the Quran, wipe
over your feet is the verse in the Quran. And it can also be read wash over your feet in the air out
of the Quran. So the point is it is very, very explicit. Now.
		

			As for the Hadith of the Prophet system, it is motivated over 20 Sahaba reported Messiah overhaul.
And that's why there is no controversy as we said as Sunni Islam. The most famous Hadith, which you
should all be aware of, is the hadith of God ibn Abdullah Al Bengali that God is named Abdullah went
to the bathroom really it himself came back and he wiped over the sock. His students said how can
you wipe over the sock? And he said, No, why shouldn't I? I saw the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam, use the restroom, come back and then wipe over his sock in another version. The Sahabi said
I came down to take the sock off the shoe when I say sock right and i think of leather sock to take
		

			the hose out from the profitsystem. And he said to me leave it on for I wore them when I was in the
state of Voodoo. And I saw him wipe over the right wipe over the course. And there are many many
narrations in this regard. Ibrahim inukai, the famous chef of Abu hanifa Ibrahim inukai, the
greatest scholar of Kufa of the students of the Sahaba he said we would love this hadith of God
ribbon Abdullah because Jerry accepted Islam after surah ma it was revealed now what is the truth
anything sudama is the surah in which Allah talks about will do or you who believe when you stand up
to pray, then wash your face and wipe your head and wash your hands and your feet. This ayah is in
		

			Surah tell which one ma either God accepted Islam
		

			After my ADA, and Jared is saying, I saw with my own eyes after this verse was revealed, the prophet
system did what? wipe over the socks, the leather sock. And so another way of saying we all loved
this Hadith, because we can use it to refute those who say wiping is abrogated, is not abrogated,
the Quran came, and the process is still wiping over the stock sock. So we have all of this and
that's what your mama know always says, there is a jamaa over anyone whom we care about Iijima that
it is allowed to wipe over the whole earth whether you're traveling or you're suffering, whether
you're a woman or a male, whether you have a reason or you don't have a reason you don't even need a
		

			reason to wipe over the earth. There is no you don't have to be sick. You don't have to be
traveling. Only the timeframe differences otherwise there is ej ma there is no controversy. Okay,
now that we've talked about no controversy, so for example, no controversy will be over Mashallah
Tabata Cola, Texas boots
		

			Okay, I have to say this in Texas. So you have the cowboy boots, the cowboy boots Mashallah This is
now off right there. This is the texts and stuff. So if you're wearing cowboy boots, and you have
we'll do one you wore them by unanimous consensus you can wipe over now I think everybody's gonna go
buy cowboy boots to work. And now you're going to be real Texan when you go to work. You can do much
over the cowboy boots, no problem with something like that. Two conditions number one covering the
ankle. Number two, impermeable. Okay, now we get to the controversy. What is the controversy? The
controversy is whether what if it's not a leather sock. As for not covering the ankle? No scholar
		

			says if you're wearing a sock that goes below the ankle, you cannot do massage, no question. It has
to cover the ankle. That's clear. Now what if it is not a leather sock and the socks that we were in
our times, right? All of us we wear nylon or cotton or polyester these are the socks that we wear.
And then we put our shoe over that now. This is where the controversy comes. And three of the major
hubs essentially do not allow wiping over impermeable Sox and one of them allows it so the Hanafi
madhhab we have an heska fee and his a doodle matar he says that it is only allowed to wipe over
covering of the of the leg if they are very thick. He doesn't say leather. That's another common
		

			misconception. Some people say my nephew said has to be leather. No, the height of his nose he has
to be leather 203 say it must be thick, such that you can walk one fossa which is like more than
five kilometres, right? three foot four or five miles you can walk so many miles and one philosopher
you can walk with and and the sock will remain and it will not be Yeah. And so basically it's an
independent shoe almost. Okay. It's an independent shoe. That's what they're saying. And khaleel in
his motorcycle, he says that it is allowed for the male or the female in travel and non travel that
they may wipe over the socks if they are made out of leather. So a leather sock meaning impermeable
		

			and the same goes for the Sharpies. Mm hmm No, we also have a quote here and others. So the three
months have say that it must be an impermeable sock, the one must have that is left is which one,
the hem buddy method and the humbly method out of the format habit. It was very clear that both the
leather and the non leather sock is allowed to do massage over. And this is something that they
defended. And even Kodama in his famous book called money. He basically mentioned that anything that
covers the ankle, anything that covers the ankle, you can walk a little bit not five kilometres or
so you can just walk any, it's something that is an independent foot covering which is basically any
		

			talk of our times, it takes the ruling of the hoof and you can do massage over it. And even taymiyah
defended this position and he goes anything that covers the feet, even if it is very thin, as long
as you call it a sock job, then it is something that is permissible and if it has them as well
famous scholar of the past he also said this, and many of the modern scholars as well say this as
well. The measureless that Islami arrabiata they have a fatwa on this that it is completely
permissible to do massage over cotton and polyester and wool and it is not a condition that they be
made out of leather. Even if the shaft is in molecules and hanafy said this they said that is not a
		

			condition and then what is their evidence? All of them isn't a me I've been has him the humble
		

			mehtab and many modern scholars, what is their evidence? The evidence is the authentic hadith and
Abu Timothy and Muslim Ummah, Hamad Al mahira have been sure about said that I saw the prophets of
Allah while you send them. He used to do masa, lol Joe rabine, when I leaned over his job and his
shoe, now in Arabic hoath is a sock that is made out of leather. And Joe Rob is a sock that is made
out of cloth. And in this Hadith, the word Joe would have is mentioned. So he wiped over the job is
explicit in the headset, and it is an authentic ID. Now the other three, they either said that,
well, he meant to hope. Or they said, Well, this is a job that is impermeable and made out of this
		

			and that and they kind of put all of these conditions on it. Nonetheless, even taymiyah has a very
long section at his fatawa in which he says
		

			the goal is because of which Allah revealed the wiping over the sock was to make easy will do. And
for us to bring so many conditions that are not found in the Quran and Sunnah. It defeats the
purpose of Allah gifting us must have had that whole thing. The point is that you make life easy.
And Allah subhana wa tada did not so because when you get the Hadith, the prophet system did not
give any conditions at all. These are later methods and we respect them, you know, my position, I
respect all the methods. But when there's a diversity of opinion, if you wish to follow a particular
method, no problem for me, and that that's why I'm giving you all the methods. That's why I'm
		

			presenting the platter to you. If you want to be a hanafy and you want to follow it hamdulillah
that's no problem. But if you ask me, What is my humble opinion, humble, humble opinion? What is my
humble, humble opinion?
		

			Not just because I am humble overall, because you know, I told you I'm overall humble. But it is
also my position that it is permissible for a person to follow another authority and say this
position is the correct one. It's not a big you're not photoshopping you asked me a position, I'll
give you my opinion, it is my opinion based on the evidences that number one, it is authentically
narrated in multiple ahaadeeth that the processing wiped over the job and the job is the word that
means a sock made out of cloth. Number two, the prophet system did not put any condition. It is true
that most of the Arabs at that time wore leather socks, but that was the custom. That was the
		

			default. So he sallallahu I said, I'm usually wiped over the leather socks. Therefore that is the
default because that's what they had at that time. Even cloth was a scarcity. By the way, why would
you put it on your shoe when you need something to cover your shoe in that environment, what not so
cloth socks were not the default leather socks were. But in that environment, our profit system, if
it was only allowed for one type, he should have said Messiah has only allowed for hope and not for
God. But he didn't. The shediac came and allowed it our Profit System demonstrated it is allowed. So
anyone who puts a condition, they need to be telling us where these conditions come from and with
		

			with utmost respect to the other three methods the humble is have a point here. And they've been
Tamia says this, the goal is to make it easy not to make it difficult. So this whole notion of you
have to walk 1000 yards, you have to make sure there's no hole the size of this and that if no pm
says can you imagine any Sahabi did not have a hole in his sock? Can you imagine? And this is can
you imagine that everybody has holes in their socks of the Sahaba were dirt poor, you don't think
they had a hole in their in their soul to have a condition that the hole cannot be more than 2.7
centimeters, these things with utmost respect, but you're making the religion these conditions are
		

			coming and it goes against the purpose of a law revealing concession to us. So both events A PML
claim they are somewhat defensive of the humbling position and I find myself agreeing with this that
yes, you may do massage over any SOC as long as it is called the SOC. The sooner proves this
explicitly. And the goals of the Shetty I prove it implicitly. Is that clear. Explain this, the
sooner proves it explicit must have had a general Bane and the idea isn't Buddhahood and Muslim or
Muhammad by Mohammed shaba. And the goals of the Sharia approve it implicitly that it is allowed
now. Having said that the final point here what is to be done if you are wearing a sock that covers
		

			the ankle because as we said if the sock does not cover the ankle, there is no discussion End of
story you have to take it off and do do sooner was to do washing of the feet. Now, what if it covers
the ankle and you put your shoe on top of the covered sock but the shoe does not cover the ankle. So
we have a number of scenarios. first scenario, your shoe covers your ankle, in which case
		

			Clearly you can do massage over tissue, you're wearing a boot you're wearing anything that is a big
covering, right? Or these hiking boots that go all the way up. Clearly, you can do massage over that
there's no question there's no afterlife amongst the humble ease. And the other three would say,
only if the shoe is impermeable, we we give that distinction, right. And by the way, most of the
shoes here, especially the hiking shoes, whatnot, they are impermeable, they don't want water to
seep in. So according to those methods, it would be allowed. It doesn't have to be leather, the
point is, water should not go into the three main types. The humble is that even if water goes in
		

			doesn't matter, that's the point you're allowed to do. So clearly, the first scenario if the shoe
goes above the ankle, all and it is impermeable, all three methods allow, understand. Now, the
controversy will come if the shoe goes beneath the ankle, and the sock is above the ankle, which is
our culture, and custom in the Western world, most of our fancy shoes are beneath the ankle, and the
sock is above the ankle. And the measures 50 of Europe and others, they have spoken about this in
detail. And I always like to quote counsels because then nobody can say it's my personal opinion,
sometimes I will give you my personal but I tried to avoid them, and I quote, you respected scholars
		

			and whatnot, so that I get out of the picture. And their position is that
		

			it's interesting, we listen to this in in those days. In those days, most of these cloth socks were
essentially wraparounds. In other words, they're not like ours, that you pull them up, it would be a
strip, and you would wrap your feet.
		

			Right, the type of bandaid they would do like that. So it's not a one piece that you pull on, it is
multi layered. Right. And so and the concept that we have of a thin sock to protect you from a, you
know, shoe, that type of stuff wasn't in back then this is something now so the the merge Mark said
that, in this case, really, if you look at it, as long as you had will do because I mentioned this
you should all understand if you don't have older than this doesn't come you have to have will do in
the morning, meaning when you when you put your shoes and socks on not in the morning, but whenever
you put your shoes and socks on you need to have, okay, now this measurement said, if you look at
		

			it, this is essentially a multi layered one entity just like imagine if you had a bandaid sock, and
then you took one layer above the ankle, then you went back down and did three four layers on the
foot itself. So the foot is thicker, Band Aid wise and above the ankle is one layer it's considered
one item, the point is it is covering the outcome is the same. So they said that given this modern
circumstance, you're not going to find a classical position because this is something new no or
style that we have. They said this class is there that this is one foot piece. So as long as you
wore your sock and your shoe in the state of Ohio in one world, right you understand this point, you
		

			wore your sock and then you wore your shoes and you had will do then you may do massage over the
shoe because you essentially wore it as one piece and it can be counted as one piece. Now, if you
		

			take your shoes off according to this position, then you will have an issue and if you don't have
will do when you place the shoe on so then you will have to take your shoe off and then do it with
the sock and this is one opinion even in this issue. Bottom line. Allah knows best but Allah gave
this concession is very clear to make life easy. Allah says wa Giada is a confident human heritage
there is no difficulty in this religion. Allah says you do not have a common user allow us to make
things easy. Our Prophet sallallahu Sallam said in the law Tyler you have a new law sir who Allah
loves that the easy things he has given you, you should take advantage of them. Don't reject them.
		

			And that's why in the context of praying for verses to when you're traveling, you're not supposed to
pray for because Allah gifted you you can pray to and allow once you to accept his gift when you're
allowed to pray to her when when when you are actually massage but you're supposed to pray to as we
all know it is against the sooner to pray for and in this context our Prophet system said Allah
loves that when he's given you a Ross and easy thing you take advantage of it. So this is even take
me as far to say that the whole concept of massage is a raw from Allah. So why make it difficult
make it easy, as long as you have will do and your footwear covers the ankle. Then shallow to other
		

			you may do massage over that entire piece and therefore you do not even have to take your shoe off.
Have the new year that you're going to do will do in the morning where your socks and your shoes
		

			And then for the rest of the day at work, you can do massage even over the shoe. And if you don't
remember whether you had will do for the shoe or not, maybe you wore your socks because it's cold
these days, then you put your shoe on later on, if you forgot that, just to be on the safe side, you
may take your shoe your feet out of the the the the actual footwear, the shoe and do massage over
the socks. But in my humble opinion, the humbly madhhab even has some authority many of our times,
and more and more of them of our times even many of the month heavier gamma in our times they are
rethinking through, they're looking at all of these exquisite evidence, as many of the shafr is
		

			called as of our times, by the way, allow massage over the job. I was listening to some YouTube
video, some of the earliest callers now even though they're shaffir. And technically their mother
does not allow it. But one of their great scholars was saying look, the Hadith is very clear, the
maletto nashoba Hadith that the processing wiped over the sock and he said this hadith is very
clear. And he's giving the fact one of the main shifts of Azur and he shaffir he's saying the
Hadeeth is very clear. So Allah knows best it seems to be no problem whatsoever to do massage over
any footwear whatsoever that constitutes the footwear and this is of the goals of the shediac and
		

			you may do your massage 24 hours when you are not traveling and 76 hours three days and nights when
you are traveling in shallow data. How can I say no to Costa Rica? Bismillah good
		

			so our brothers asking a good question that I didn't talk about dismiss I had done on the top or on
the bottom. I live near be positive said Hadeeth isn't Muslim. Sooner Buddha would sooner visa would
live in avatar live said
		

			if our religion were to be based upon what my logic and reason says. Then I would have done masa on
the bottom of my sock my whole life. But I saw the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam do massage on
the top of the roof. This Hadith isn't Buddhahood and alumina we thought he said if the religion
were to based upon what I think is common sense logic rationality, then I would have thought massage
should be done at the bottom but I saw the profitsystem do massage on the top and by the way this
shows that that massage is symbolic massage is symbolic because you just a little bit of drops of
water and you just rub on the top even though we all know when you're walking is going to be the
		

			bottom that is going to be dusty and Sandy and whatnot. This is even Tamia is point by the way that
massage is a symbolic gift like to mom. So to add multiple conditions to to mom defeats the purpose
of the demo to add multiple conditions to massage defeats the purpose of massage. That's the point
of intermediate says Chuck will lock it
		

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