Skip to content
Skip to main content

Q-ID0081

Does wearing aftershave or gel nullify wudu?

20 Sept 2013

Question

I would like to ask does applying hair gel on after doing wudu break your wudu? Also does applying aftershave break the wudu?

Answer

Applying hair gel or aftershave does not invalidate the wudu (ablution). Wudu is invalidated when:

  1. Anything exits from the two private parts of the body.
  2. Impure substances such as blood or pus flow from their point of exit and encroach on a place which it is incumbent to purify.
  3. Vomiting, if it was a mouthful (this is determined by whether you were able to keep your mouth closed or not)
  4. Sleeping lying down so that the rear is not firmly seated, or leaning [on’s side] or reclining on something such that if it were removed he would fall.
  5. Loss of consciousness through fainting or insanity.
  6. Laughter in any prayer containing ruku` and sujud.

[Mutoon-e-Mazhab]

Allah knows best.

Answered by Mawlana Mohammed Kashif

Published by the Dar-ul-Ifta of Akhuwat-e-Islami as Q-ID0081. Read it on Akhuwat-e-Islami