Is My Ablution Valid, If I Left Out Interlacing My Toes in Ablution?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

Is my ablution valid, if I left out interlacing my toes in ablution? 

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

Interlacing the toes (Takhlil) is an emphasized sunna of the ablution (wudu). One’s wudu is valid in water washed each part of the feet at least once. [Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat Maraqi al-Falah]

If you submerged your feet in a container of purifying water, you will have fulfilled the obligation of washing your feet once. [Ibid.]

Hope this helps

Allah knows best

[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of 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 stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest 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 Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.