Q. During the bus ride taking us from Mina to the Kaaba for the tawaf of ifaadah, one or two of us might have dosed off because of tiredness. They went to the Kaaba directly, without having a fresh ablution. Is this correct?
D. Farooki
A. When you are on a bus, in the sitting position, and you dose off your ablution, or wudhu is not invalidated, because there is no possibility that you may inadvertently make a discharge of wind that would invalidate your ablution. Therefore, those people were all right to go to the Kaaba and do their tawaf of ifaadah. They need not worry about the validity of their tawaf or their prayer, provided, of course, their ablutions were not invalidated in some other way.