Does Water Entering the Vaginal Opening and Later Exiting Break the Wudu?


Hanafi Fiqh

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

If water enters the vaginal opening during istinja or swimming and later comes out, does this invalidate wudu? I haven’t found any evidence that it would.

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

No. Water that enters the vaginal opening and later exits does not break the wudu. This is because it is not possible to know for certain that water entered and exited the vagina. [Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat Maraqi al-Falah]

Any moisture that comes out could be the normal colorless discharge of the female or sweat, both of which are pure and do not invalidate the wudu. [Ibid.]

Such things should be ignored as they can lead to misgivings (waswasa) with regard to purification. [Ibid.]

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.

He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.

In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.