Why Wudoo Has Obligations, Not Pillars

Alhamdulillah. Continuing in. Yesterday we started discussing the conditions of woodoo. for.

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The author here mentions a third condition of and again he placed this in the conditions and the difference between a condition and a pillar is that a condition is a prerequisite. It's outside of the act of worship. Whereas a pillar or an obligation is part of the actual makeup of the act of worship. If we understand that, we understand that the only one of these that's truly a condition is the intention. Is the intention because that's the prerequisite. Correct? Whereas even saying is part of the actual or which is succession. Succession means that a person makes the wudoo each part in succession of the next altogether. Meaning a person can't make you know wash the hands, wash the face at the beginning of the day, wash the arms an hour later, wash wipe the head an hour later, wash the feet an hour later and then have a full woo. No, it has to be successively performed. Meaning that a person makes the wudoo altogether. The scholars say that succession, the least of it is that the first part of wudoo, the first the first limb or the first place where a person washes. So that would be the face doesn't naturally dry by the time the person finishes washing the last part. Right. So, a person washes his face, then the arms, and then wipes the head, and then somebody walks in that they know, and they take a break or they take a second to speak to them, right? As long as their face has not naturally dried in a natural environment, then they would just continue their woo where they left off. But if there's such a break between them that the first pillar, the first thing that you washed, which is this case the face, the hands have dried naturally before the person gets to the end of the wool, then the woo needs to be restarted. Needs to be started over again, right? However, anything within that is fine. How much would we say that that would roughly be? roughly how long would it take for a person's face to dry naturally in a natural environment on its own? Probably 5 minutes, maybe four, something that. Right? That is a general reasonable amount of time that the person has to make wuboo. If the person doesn't make the final pillar of wudoo, by the time the first pillar has is still wet naturally, then the wudoo has to be restarted. This is what the scholars mean when they say means that a person make the wudoo successively meaning each one right after the other until they complete the wudoo because again wudoo is a full unit right it's a full unit kind of salah salah is a full unit we can't make half and have it count right we can't make four or five laps around the cabba and have them count. It comes in units, right? You have to have fulfilled a full unit. Seven rounds around the cabba to count as at least two to be counted as a one in case of wub. Now we're going to move into the obligations of Udubul. What are the obligations of Udul? The author mentions the obligations of Udul as being six. And notice how he didn't call them pillars of Udul. Why? Why didn't he call them pillars? We we always say there is every act of worship has conditions and it has pillars. In the case of woo the scholars most usually refer to it as conditions and obligations not pillars. This is one of the only acts of worship in all of the legislation of Islam where they do not cite these things as being pillars. Rather, they cite them as being obligations. Does anybody want to take a crack at that and tell us why they think that is? Do we understand the question? Let's look at the definition of a condition, the definition of a pillar, the definition of an obligation. Okay, a pillar and a and an and a condition are the same thing essentially. The only difference between a pillar and a condition is that a condition is outside of the actual act of worship. It's not part of the actual makeup. And a pillar is part of the actual act of worship. Right? You could imagine with me for instance let's say let's say I'm building a building okay a bridge a big bridge and I need to import steel from another country to build this bridge right so the steel itself that I'm importing is a pillar because that's part of the actual bridge. The licenses I need to build the bridge legally and the connections I need to have to import that steel legally. Those are conditions. Those are prerequisites. My license isn't actually a part of the bridge. However, that bridge will not come to pass without me having that. Do you understand? It's clear, right? So a condition is outside of the act of worship. It's not a part of it. We look at something salah. We say for instance covering the is part is a condition of salah. a condition of salah because me physically covering my is not part of the makeup of salah but it's a prerequisite to the salah it's a condition for the salah to be accepted right when we look at the time of salah one of the conditions of salah is the time has to be in it has to be the right time for the salah. Not before its time, not after its time. The actual time of day is not part of the makeup of salah, right? It's part of the context in which the salah takes place. It has to take place in this particular time otherwise will not be valid. This is a condition of salah. Whereas is a pillar of salah. Sujud is a pillar of salah. Recitation of surah fat is a pillar of salah. Do we understand the difference? Okay. Now what is a a an obligation? An obligation is similar to a pillar but it's different. It's different in the sense that if a person leaves off an obligation, forgetfully, then the prayer is still valid. But if they leave it off on purpose, the prayer is invalid. A pillar, it's not that. a pillar. If you forget it or if you leave it out on purpose, the prayer is invalid. You have you it has to be made up. Whereas a an obligation is less is more lenient. If a person forgets it, then the prayer is still valid. But if a person purposely leaves it off, then the prayer is what? invalid. A good example of this is the first of a prayer that has two in it. Let's say a person forgets the first they stand straight up from the second into the third. They forgot. Do they need to go back and make that again? No. Prayer is still valid. They may make suj but the prayer is still valid. Whereas a pillar it doesn't matter if it was forgetfully or knowingly the prayer is invalid. If a person were to purposely not make the first they say you know what I'm strapped for time. I don't have a lot of time. I'm going to just leave off the first the salah is invalid. The whole salah it's invalid. Why? Because they left off an obligation on purpose intentionally. And the difference between a pillar and an obligation is that a pillar has to be made and if it is left out forgetfully or purposely the the prayer can't be valid without it. Whereas the obligation there's room for forgetfulness. Do we understand? So it's an obligation but it's less serious, right? It's less serious. Now if we go back to the case of wudoo and we say every act of worship has conditions and pillars. Woo. The scholars mention conditions and obligations. They don't mention pillars. Why? Why this categorization? Categorization matters. Go to the greatest most knowledgeable muti on the face of the earth and ask him any question. When he answers your question, where will he be drawing from? These technicalities, this is where he's drawing from. When you come and you ask him, I forgot this in my salah. What's the ruling on this salah? What do I do? He is going down a checklist that he learned probably 50, 60, 70 years ago before you and I were even born. And he is, you know, obviously it's very quick. This is what he does. But this is oversimplification. But what he is doing is he is reviewing knowledge in this way. He is going down the checklist. That is how a fetwa is formulated. He doesn't make it up as he goes. These are answers that he found decades and decades earlier. So when you say and so this categorization matters. It matters so much because based on how you categorize these rulings is going to determine how these rulings are going to play out their implications. We will continue this tomorrow inshallah.

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