Section: Acts That Nullify Ablution (nawāqiḍ al-wuḍūʾ)

Ablution is invalidated by:

• Any matter that emerges from the two passages; likewise, any discharge from the rest of the body if it is urine or feces, or a large quantity of any other impure substance such as vomit or blood.

• Loss of consciousness, even by sleep, except for a brief doze experienced by someone who is sitting or standing without leaning, and the like.

• Touching one’s own private part with the hand, or one person’s penis coming into contact with another person’s private part (1).

• Skin-to-skin contact between a man and a woman accompanied by desire. This does not apply when the person touched is under seven years old, nor to touching hair or nails, or a beardless youth, nor when a barrier intervenes, nor to the one who is touched—whether on the private part or elsewhere—even if he or she feels desire.

Ablution is likewise nullified by washing a deceased person and by eating camel meat specifically.

Everything that obligates a full ritual bath (ghusl)—apart from death—also obligates ablution.

Whoever is certain of being in a state of purity and then doubts whether he has broken it, or the reverse, bases the ruling on what he is sure of.

While in a state of minor impurity it is forbidden to perform the prayer, to circumambulate the Kaʿbah (ṭawāf), or to touch a muṣḥaf—or any part of it—without a barrier. One may, however, carry it without direct contact and turn its pages with one’s sleeve or with a stick.