---
layout: post
publisher: alsalafiyyah@icloud.com
title: "Certainty is not removed by doubt"
date: 2019-09-01
hijri: "Muharram 02, 1441 AH"
source: "Fatawa Al-lajnah Ad-Da'imah of KSA no. 6895, question 3"
category: [taharah, ablution, salah]
summary: "If you entertain doubts of Hadath (ritual impurity invalidating ablution) after having performed Taharah (ritual purification), cast doubts away and act based upon your state of Taharah, because certainty is not overruled by doubt."
author: "Permanent Committee of KSA"
muftis:
  chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Aziz ibn Baz
      url: /biography/binbaz/
  deputy_chairman: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdul-Razzaq Al-Afifi
      url: /biography/afifi/
  members: 
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Ghudayyan
      url: /biography/ghudayyan/
    - name: Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Qa'ud
      url: /biography/qaud/
---

### Question : 

If I perform Wudu’ (ablution) and then offer Maghrib (Sunset) Prayer and after a while the prescribed time of ‘Isha’ (Night) Prayer becomes due and I want to offer ‘Isha’ with the same Wudu’ I did for Maghrib Prayer, but I am not sure whether or not I invalidated my Wudu’, what should I do? 

### Answer: 

If you entertain doubts of Hadath (ritual impurity invalidating ablution) after having performed Taharah (ritual purification), cast doubts away and act based upon your state of Taharah, because certainty is not overruled by doubt.