Does Deep Sleep Break Your Wudu?
Deep Sleep as an Invalidator of Wudu: Understanding the Second Condition
Summary
This lecture discusses the second invalidator of wudu (ritual ablution) in Islam, specifically deep sleep. Sh. Ali Mashhour explains that deep sleep breaks wudu regardless of a person's posture, distinguishing it from light sleep where the person remains aware of their surroundings. Using relatable examples, such as someone sleeping through the adhan during Jumu'ah prayer, Sh. Ali Mashhour emphasizes the importance of recognizing when wudu is invalidated. The lecture also addresses contemporary issues affecting prayer quality, including cell phone use during salah and the misuse of Islamic terminology influenced by Western concepts, urging Muslims to maintain proper Islamic language and understanding based on the Quran and Sunnah.
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The Yesterday we began began discussing the second invalidator of Udul or we should say we you know differentiated between a couple of important principles with respect to the second invalidator of wudoo which is deep sleep. We said deep sleep is an invalidator of wudoo irrespective of a person's posture during this deep sleep. Irrespective of the position that the person is in. If it is deep sleep a person's woo is no longer a certainty. Therefore, a person must make his woo over. I'll give you an example of deep sleep. You ever see someone sit during awa and start to snore? They're sitting right next to the speaker and they are sleeping so nicely and so comfy. that the is called and everyone stands up for salah and they still need to be woken up so that they can stand up and make salah. Have you ever seen that before? I hope that you're not that guy. This person has wudoo or does not have wudoo. What's the answer? He does not have woo. Why? Because this is deep sleep. What's the difference between deep and light sleep?
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Environment. Yes. Awareness. Because if a person is not aware of his surroundings, he's not aware of what his body is doing. The whole idea behind light sleep not being an invalidator of wudoo is that if a person were to break his wudoo while in this light sleep he would know it. However, if a person is sleeping so deeply that they do not hear the they do not hear hundreds of feet standing and stamping on the ground. This person needs to make his woo. Now, here's the question. Have you ever seen that guy? We've all seen that guy, right? Have you ever seen that guy go make wool before coming back to pray? No, you haven't. Unfortunately, is that prayer valid or invalid? Invalid. Imagine taking the time out of your day, driving, parking, doing all that just to do what? just to go home with nothing to ruin it for something silly. And you see people do this constantly. The prophet sallallah.aii was tells us and so whoever plays or fidgets with the with something then this person has broken his silence. This person has broken his legislative silence which invalidates the reward of Jym. And you see people do it all the time and it's so sad because this person clearly has some desire for the reward of Allah and unfortunately they may go a year or two or 10 or 20 or 30 and because of a text message here or let me just check my email real quick or let me just message this person something real quick because of the advent event of the cell phone. It is hard to find someone that will make it through J without invalidating the reward of his J. And this is what is sad about it because what could be worse than meeting Allah thinking that you have something in the bank and there is nothing there? What could be worse than standing in front of Allah and only to find out that the reward for your prayer has been invalidated because the row is unstraight and sloppy because it was too much effort to make sure that the row and your place in the row is straight. If you stand out of place in the row, what happens to the reward of the prayer? Everyone suffers because of that. Whenever people get together to do something collectively, what one person does affects the entire group. And it's that for a reason. So that no one can come and say, well, you know, right? I'm doing my people don't do what they don't do. That's their business. There's no such thing as that's their business. The Muslim, the believer is the mirror image of his brother. If he sees something wrong, he fixes it. He fixes it in the best of ways, right? And now with the advent of cell phones, we see that much of our prayer has been destroyed, much of our focus has been destroyed. And with the advent of the internet, we have the emergence of what? The pseudo scholar. What is the pseudo scholar? Well, if you tell them anything, you say, but this is a difference of opinion amongst the scholars. You can't say anything to anyone anymore. Say the prophet sallall.aii wasallam said this. They reply with what? Yeah, but this is a difference of opinion. What does that mean? We are repeating statements that we don't even know the meaning of. This does not take away from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam's from the prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam's statements and and not only that but unfortunately with the advent of the internet and we as a minority living amongst the majority of non-Muslims our language starts to change and when our language changes our beliefs change with them what for instance what do we call it when a person is presented with the truth but their instinct is to protect themselves and reject this truth. We say this person is rejecting this out of what? We have a very specific word. No English starts with an ego. Ego. What is ego? Ego. Ego. This is the ego speaking. There is no ego in the Quran. There's no ego in the sunnah. What do we call it in the Quran and Sunnah? That's the act. But what is the ego in the Quran and Sunnah? If we don't even know how to properly diagnose the problem, how are we going to correct it? Ego comes from Freudian psychiatry, psychology, right? You can have your choice. Freud who thinks that everything everything every decision a person makes, everything a person does is all driven purely by sexual desire and the urge to reproduce. Even the connection between a brother and sister. Even the connection between a brother and his brother is driven entirely by what? Bisexual by by what is called libido, right? Or you can have the yungian ideology of ego where ego is in the front and then the shadow self is in the back and the shadow self is the repressed self. If you repress all those bad urges, one day they're going to come back out and then you're going to turn into a narcissist, etc. All these words that we have no place in the Quran and Sunnah for them. Our language is being replaced. The point here is that back to our person sleeping during Juma, this person needs to be told by everyone what? Go make wudoo. You don't have udoo. No, I was sleeping sitting up. You didn't know what was going on. A freight train could have driven right through here and you would not have been the wiser. You have to make wudoo because sleep breaks woo according to the consensus of all of the the consensus of all of the awareness. Whether a person is sitting up completely resting all of his weight on his behind or not. This breaks a person's woo irrespective of a person's posture.
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Hadith So we see here that in this narration of and this narration is mentioned in the first chapter of as well. We see here that tells us three things that break a person's woo. He says defecating and urinating and sleep. So defecating and urinating and sleep. So he made these three whats equal. They're the same thing. Person uses the restroom or sleeps deeply. This is considered what? an invalidator of.
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