Islam Question and Answer - Wiping over Cloth & Leather Socks

» Ruling on gathering to eat, offer condolences and recite Qur’aan together.

» Getting a civil divorce to avoid prison for the husband who has another wife.

» Will the members of a family all be together in Paradise?.

» Her mother is in love with her husband’s brother and she is the one who writes the love letters for her!.

» He wants to share out his money between his two young daughters because he fears that his heirs will be unjust to them.

» It is permissible to wipe over the khuffayn with a cloth or for someone else to wipe them.

» If the zaani (fornicator) admits to paternity of his illegitimate child, should the child be attributed to him?.

» Is it permissible to lie to kaafirs?.

» He is affected by waswaas and swore: “If I get carried away with it again, I will be a kaafir”.

» His parents want to separate, and each of them wants him to be on their side.

In order to be allowed to wipe over one’s socks, they have to have been put on at the same time, after completing wudoo’ or ghusl

What is the ruling concerning a man who washes his right foot and puts his right sock on before he washes his left foot? Is it permissible for him to wipe over his socks?

Praise be to Allaah.

You cannot wipe over your socks in this case, because you put the first sock on before completing the act of purification (wudoo’ or ghusl).

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah, 5/247

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