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Breaking of Wudhu by Blood or Matter Flowing from a Cut, Sore, Wound, Boil, Etc.

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  1. If blood or pus or any other matter comes out from any part of the body, apart from the front and hind private parts, wudhu will not break just by its appearance or alignment with the mouth of the sore or wound, etc.
  2. For the wudhu to break in the above instance it is necessary for the blood or matter to come out and flow.
  3. If it is forced out, such as being pressed out, then too the wudhu breaks.
  4. Flowing from the mouth of the sore or wound means that the blood or matter rises and then descends onto the skin.
  5. If there was potential flow of the matter, however, the blood, etc. was wiped several times before it could flow out of the mouth of the sore or wound or boil, in this case if the collective amount of matter, had it been left without wiping, would have flowed, then too the wudhu breaks.
  6. Examples of potential flow are:

6.1 Wiping the blood, etc. whenever it appears.

6.2. Compressing a plaster, bandage, cotton, etc. on the mouth of the sore or wound.

6.3. Putting something which dries up blood and stops bleeding, such as charcoal, ash, sand, turmeric, etc. on the mouth of the sore, wound, boil, etc. then drying it again with the turmeric, etc. when the matter becomes apparent again, and so forth a third or fourth time.

  1. If the wiping of the sore was in different places, such as first in the bathroom then in the bedroom then in some other room of the home or outside the home, then the collective amount will not be taken into account.
  2. The collective amount of wiping in a single place is the determinant.
  3. If blood was drawn from the body without the blood staining the skin, such as in cupping, the wudhu still breaks.
  4. If blood comes down to the nasal cavity the wudhu breaks.
  5. If blood is stopped in any way from coming out of the mouth of the wound or sore or boil, etc. the wudhu does not break.
  6. It is waajib to prevent the blood from breaking the wudhu as far as possible, even if a person has to offer his/her Salaat sitting or with mere gestures of the head.

(Manhalul Waarideen)