Does sleep really break your wudoo?
Understanding Deep Sleep as an Invalidator of Wudoo: Certainty and Doubt in Ritual Purity
Summary
This lecture discusses the invalidators of wudoo (ritual ablution) in Islam, specifically focusing on deep sleep as an invalidator. Sh. Ali Mashhour explains that sleep itself does not break wudoo, but rather deep sleep creates uncertainty about whether wudoo has been broken, since a person cannot be certain of what their body did while they were unconscious. Sh. Ali Mashhour clarifies the distinction between light sleep and deep sleep, noting that only deep sleep invalidates wudoo. The lecture also addresses the special case of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), whose heart remained awake even during physical sleep to receive revelation, allowing him to know with certainty whether his wudoo was broken.
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Alhamdulillah. Continuing in our listing of the invalidators of yesterday we mentioned a general invalidator of anything that comes out of the two private parts. Meaning the front private parts, the back private part. Anything that comes out of these two ways is considered to be an invalidator of the second is deep sleep. Not just sleep. Notice the wording that the author uses. Deep sleep. Now the question that's obvious when hearing such a a thing and that is how do we quantify deep sleep? what distinguishes what is the boundary the distinguishing contrasting line between deep sleep and light sleep? And why is it that only deep sleep breaks a person's wool whereas light sleep does not? Both of them are sleep. These are two very important questions. Number one, sleep itself does not break a person's woo. Sleep itself does not break a person's woo. Sleep is considered an invalidator of wool because that which does break a person's wudul could have occurred while a person is sleeping and they would be none the wiser. The reason why sleep is considered an invalidator of wudoo is not because sleep in itself invalidates wudoo but because a person is when they wake up from deep sleep they cannot with any certainty say that they did not break their wool. This is the reason deep sleep breaks a person's wudoo is considered to be an invalidator of wudoo. So when a person stands to make wudoo and they make their wudoo they can say with certainty that they have wudoo correct and they can say with certainty that they did not break their woo. Right? But when a person has something deep sleep occur, now that which was certain is no longer certain. You can no longer claim with certainty that you still have woo. If we understand this about sleep, then all of the evidences that have to do with sleep and sleeping and woo and they all fall into place. So for instance, for instance, the prophet sallall.aii was narrated on many occasions to have to have woken up from sleep and made salah. Did not make wool. he didn't make wudoo again and other instances he would wake up from sleep and not and and make wudoo before making salah. So the question is why is he making salah after waking up from sleep and we know it's deep sleep sleep for hours but he will make wake up make salah not make why is this happening well specifically for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam.
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Allah Subhanahu.
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The description. of the prophets and messengers is that their eyes sleep but their hearts do not sleep. Why? Because the heart is the recipient of revelation from Allah. Gibl he descends from the heavens bearing the revelation of Allah and he addresses the heart. The heart is to be in constant in constant in in constant wait lying in constant wait for the revelations of Allah to arrive. The revelation is not going to wait from Allah till he wakes up. He's sleeping now. Wait until he wakes up to have the revelation. Thank you. I'm all thumbs this morning to have the revelation. Revelation comes when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala deems it necessary. So the heart, their hearts, the prophets and messengers are always awake, waiting for Allah's revelation. Their bodies sleep, their hearts are constantly awake. Okay. So for this reason, if the heart is what is awake, the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam has a very unique a very unique quality and that is that no matter how deep his sleep is he is going to know if he breaks his woo or not. So in narrations where he's narrated to wake up and make wudoo that means while he was asleep he broke his woo. And in narrations that mention that he woke up and did not make wudoo and made salah. This means that he did not break his wudoo during his sleep. And he knows this. We do not have this feature. When we fall asleep in a deep sleep, we are unaware of what our body is doing. Therefore, when a person goes to sleep, he is certain of his wudoo. But then when he wakes up from his deep sleep, he is no longer certain of his wudoo. And you may not approach salah with doubt. You must be certain of your woodoo. in order to approach salah. And so for this reason we see a difference of opinion amongst the scholars. Some of them say deep sleep is what breaks wudoo. Light sleep does not. Others say any kind of sleep breaks woo. Others say no sleep breaks woo. The correct opinion is that deep sleep breaks woo. Not because it sleep in itself breaks a person's woo but because it is it is an expected time for woo to be broken.
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Feminine. Listen to this narration from Ali. The author even mentions it here. He says that the eye the eye is the leash of the anus. What does that mean? The eye is the leash. You know, a leash you would put on an animal to keep control of it. The eye is the leash of the anus which controls what the gases in the body from coming out. So Ali says so whoever sleeps then he has to make woo. So when a person sleeps deeply, that sleep in and of itself does not break a person's wudoo. But that sleep makes his wudoo dubious. Makes his wudoo doubtful. He's unsure if he has woo or not. Therefore, deep sleep will make a person's wudoo be on shaky ground. It's uncertain now. So a person must then restore the certainty of his woo. And how do we restore this certainty of our woo? By making it right. And so sleep in itself does not break a person's wuboo. But sleep becomes what? It becomes a doubtful. It adds a layer of doubt to a person's wuboo. This is why a person is to sleep is to make wuboo when he sleeps. But not just any sleep, deep sleep. And this takes us to the second point. The first point was why is it that deep sleep breaks a person's woo but light sleep doesn't? We answered that. The second question now is how do we quantify deep sleep and distinguish it from light sleep? How do I say this is light sleep and this is deep sleep? What is the dividing line? What is the contrasting line between the two? And that is what we'll discuss tomorrow inshallah.