Eskiyeni 40 (Mart/March 2020) Araştırma Makalesi/Research Article Eskiyeni 40 (Mart/March 2020), 9-35 Sünnî Olmayan Mezheplerde Karşı Cinse Dokunmanın Abdeste Etkisi  Yakup Mahmutoğlu Dr., Bayburt Üniversitesi, İlahiyat Fakültesi, İslam Hukuku Anabilim Dalı Dr., Bayburt University, Divinity Faculty, Department of Islamic Law Bayburt, Turkey ymahmutoglu@gmail.com orcid.org/0000-0002-0362-659X İdris Cebeci Doktora Öğrencisi, Bayburt Üniversitesi, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü Ph.D. Student, Bayburt University, Graduate Education Institute Bayburt, Turkey idriscebeci47@hotmail.com orcid.org/0000-0003-2752-0906 Effect of Touching the Opposite Sex on Ablution in Sects which are not Sunni Abstract Islam placed great emphasis on an uninterrupted link between the servant and the creator. Undoubt- edly, one of the most important elements that strengthen this link is the sincere worship of the serv- ant to the God. Since prayer (sal āt), on the other hand, is the most important of these worships, the ablution and dry ablution (tayammum), which are accepted as a preparation for prayer, were consid- ered as important. In the Qur’ān, ablution and dry ablution topics are dealt as detached in verse 6 of al-Māidah and verse 43 of al-Nisā. As a result of the efforts made by Islamic scholars towards understanding these two verses, many comments and Islamic judicial opinion emerged. One of the most important disputes that arise in the context of these two verses is whether touching the opposite sex has spoil the ablution or dry ablution. There have been many disputes about what is meant in the aforementioned verses from the first period (‘ aṣr al-sa‘adah) namely; the following statement mentioned as one of the situations in which ablution and dry ablution should be taken: “…  أ لء (aw l āmastum al-nisā’ a/or when you touch women)…” some scholars said, the statement of “…  أ لء ( aw l āmastum al-nisā’ a/or when you touch women )” means, touch; some said it means touch with lust, others said it was figuratively sexual intercourse (jimā). Based on these different meanings, some scholars have expressed an Islamic judicial opinion as “touching the opposite sex in absolute terms”, some “touching only with lust” and others “sexual intercourse with women” spoils the ablution and dry ablution. In the study, the opinions of the non-Sunnī Shiite-Jafarī , Shiite-Zaydī s and Khārijī -Ibāzīs sects on the subject of “lams/mulāmasa (touch, intercourse)” in the context of the relevant verses, reason (‘aql) and revealed (naql) evidences based on their opinions, and their answers to scholars and sects in opposition to defend their views, were made by referring to basic resources as much as possible.  İntihal Taraması/Plagiarism Detection: Bu makale intihal taramasından geçirildi/This paper was checked for plagiarism Geliş/Received: 17 Aralık/December 2019 | Kabul/Accepted: 06 Mart/March 2020 | Yayın/Published: 20 Mart/March 2020 Atıf/Cite as: Yakup Mahmutoğlu - İdris Cebeci, “Sünnî Olmayan Mezheplerde Karşı Cinse Dokunmanın Abdeste Etkisi = Effect of Touching the Opposite Sex on Ablution in Sects Which are not Sunni”, Eskiyeni 40 (Mart/March 2020), 9-35. https://doi.org/10.37697/eskiyeni.660193 Copyright © Anadolu İlahiyat Akademisi/Anatolian Theological Academy, 06050, Ankara, Turkey | www.anilakademi.com CC BY-NC 4.0 | This paper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License