What Breaks Wuḍūʾ

The Mālikī nullifiers of wuḍūʾ, grouped:

Bodily discharges (natural): 1. Urine 2. Flatulence (wind) 3. Feces 4. Salas (sudden incontinence) — when it occurs as a new event, not as an ongoing chronic condition (chronic conditions get a different ruling) 5. Madhiy (pre-seminal fluid) — caused by arousal without full sexual activity 6. Wadiy (post-urinary fluid) 7. Maniy (seminal fluid) — usually requires *ghusl* not just wuḍūʾ; included here for completeness

Loss of reason: 8. Drunkenness, insanity, fainting — anything that removes consciousness 9. Heavy sleep — sleep deep enough that one would not feel flatulence. Light dozing while sitting upright does not break wuḍūʾ.

Contact events: 10. A mature man's deliberate touching of an unrelated woman (not *maḥram*) with pleasure or with intent of pleasure — even through thin clothing 11. Kissing with desire 12. A man deliberately touching his own erect private part with the bare hand 13. A woman touching her private part in some Mālikī positions

Doubt and apostasy: 14. Genuine doubt about whether wuḍūʾ broke — in the Mālikī school (unlike the Shāfiʿī), doubt *does* break wuḍūʾ. To be safe, redo it. 15. Ridda (apostasy from Islam) — wuḍūʾ is invalidated; one must re-enter Islam by the shahādatayn and redo wuḍūʾ.

What does NOT break wuḍūʾ — common confusions to clear up: - Bleeding from a cut or nosebleed. Mālikī position: does not break (differs from Ḥanafī). - Vomiting. Mālikī position: does not break. - Touching a child, parent, sibling, grandparent — any *maḥram* — without desire. - Accidental, non-aroused touching of opposite sex. - Light dozing while sitting upright. - Laughing during prayer breaks the prayer in some schools, but not the wuḍūʾ in Mālikī. - Eating camel meat breaks wuḍūʾ in the Ḥanbalī school but not in Mālikī.