Did I Break My Wudu?  Did I Break My Wudu?  Asalamu alaykum,
Imam Saab:  I pray in a masjid close to campus and usually get
their after classes, pray my Zuhur Namaz, then sit and wait for
the Asr Salat. I’m very tired and most of the time I fall
asleep, but not to the point where I’m not aware what’s going on
around me. Is it incumbent upon me to make abolition before I
pray again?  The Answer:  Asalamu alaykum,  Imam Ibn ‘Ashir
states in The Guiding Helper:  نواقض الوضوء ستة عشر…………………….
وغائظ نوم ثقيل مذى  “The invalidators of wudu are sixteen………………
“[Natural] defecation, heavy sleep and pre-ejaculate  In the
text above the author identifies one of the invalidators of wūdu
as “heavy sleep.”  Therefore, it is not incumbent upon you to
make wūdu again because you did not fall into a deep slumber.
What you experienced is light sleep.  Sheikh al-Fasī, in his
abbreviated explanation of the Guiding Helper, says that light
sleep does not invalidate one’s wūdu. He notes that light sleep
occurs when one is aware of