I have a boil under my arm.....

I have a boil under my arm. If I remain as normal, the blood does not ooze out of the boil. However, if I lift my arm up, I don’t know how come, but somehow this is a means of pressure being applied to the boil and thus the blood flows out. Likewise, if I do strenuous work, which involves the moving about of my arms, the blood oozes. I know the Masla that if you have a boil or wound and if you squeeze it and blood flows out then you must think to yourself that had you not squeezed it then blood would not have come out then in that case your Wuzu won’t break, so my question is can i regard the lifting up of my arm and my doing of strenuous work to be in place of squeezing? In other words, if I lift my arm up and blood flows out, I won’t regard my Wuzu to be broken because I know that force was applied to the boil and that why blood came out. Am I correct?? This same thing happened last night, so i didn’t renew my Wuzu, and in that condition i lead the congregation in Tarawih and Witr prayer.

JazakAllah
Wassalaam

In the name of Allah, the most Compassionate, the most Merciful

Assalamualaykum Warah-matullaahi Wa-barakaatuhu

We acknowledge receipt of your query and our response follows hereunder:

If a pimple (which is in your case a boil) bursts and the blood flows out onto the skin, the Wudhu will be nullified and you will have to renew the Wudhu ^[1]. Hence by you not renewing your Wudhu, neither the Taraweeh nor the Witr were correct.

In that case you will have to inform the Muqtadis to make Qadha (substitute) of their Witr on that particular day by elucidating the cause. As for the Taraweeh there is no Qadha.

^[1] (Nūrul Idhāh, Pg.35, Qadīmi)
(Bahisti Zewar, Vol.1, Pg.54, Zam Zam)