Does Water Splashing On Other Parts Of The Body During Wudu` Change It's Order?

• The scholars who hold that maintaining the prescribed order is obligatory say that the face must be washed first, then the hands, then the head is wiped, and then the feet are washed. • However, what is meant by washing here is the intentional washing performed by the person making wudu as part of fulfilling the act of purification, not water that happens to splash or scatter unintentionally. • Therefore, if a person is washing his face and water reaches his hands or feet, or if he is washing his hands and water splashes onto his head or feet, this is not considered a legislated washing of those limbs and does not affect the required order. • For this reason, it is not known from any of the scholars that they required a person to repeat his wudu or ruled that the prescribed order had been invalidated due to water splashing during wudu. This is because such splashing is difficult to avoid, and the Shariah is founded upon ease and the removal of hardship.

Indeed, if this matter were opened to scrutiny, it would lead to severe misgivings and obsessive doubts, since hardly anyone is free from water splashing onto some of his limbs while performing wudu. Final Answer: • Water splashing onto another limb during wudu does not affect the validity of the wudu. • It does not interrupt the required order between the limbs of wudu. • Consideration is given to the intentional washing performed by the person making wudu with the intention of washing a limb, not to water droplets or splashes that happen to reach it. • A Muslim should not pay attention to such misgivings. Rather, he should continue his wudu according to the Sunnah without unnecessary hardship or excessive strictness.