Do prosthetic eyes or inflammation running from eyes invalidate ablution?
Scholars agreed on that there is no need to wash inside of eyes in ablution (Mawsili, al-Ikhtiyar, I, 40, 57; Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar, I, 97; Nawawi, al-Majmu’, I, 369). Therefore, prosthetic eyes do not prevent one from performing ablution. Just as the prosthesis placed on the eye itself does not prevent minor ablution, if it causes something that is religiously clean, such as tears, to come out of the eye, the minor ablution will not be invalidated. In a hadith it is stated, “Ablution is not required because of tears and runny nose.” (Abd al-razzaq, al-Musannaf, I, 146, Hadith No: 559). However, Hanafi school says that ablution is invalidated when things that are considered najis (ritually impure) in religious terms such as blood, pus, and inflammation come out from eyes (Marghinani, al-Hidayah, I, 17).
According to the Shafi’i school, since minor ablution is not invalidated by things coming out from other parts of the body, except for those coming out from the front and the back, ablution is not invalidated by fluids such as inflammation and blood flowing from the eye. (Mawardi, al-Hawi, I, 199-200; Shirbini, Mughnil’l-muhtaj, I, 64)
Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWAS
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