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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Prayer for One Who Cannot Control the Passage of Wind

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Question:
This questioner says: Your Eminence the Shaykh, I have undergone several surgical operations on the digestive system that make it extremely difficult to control the gases released from the abdomen. What is the ruling on my prayer? And what should I do? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
If the gases, which is the passage of wind, are not under a person's control, whether with sound or without sound, and if this cannot be controlled, he is like the one with a continuous flow of urine, meaning the urine is constant. But what is controlled, he does not perform wudu' except when the time enters. If the time for Zuhr enters, he performs wudu', and likewise for 'Asr, Maghrib, 'Isha', and Fajr. He prays, and even if something comes out, if he performed wudu' after the time entered, he prays. Even if something comes out, let him pray; it does not harm him. Fear Allah as much as you are able, like the one with the continuous flow of urine who is mentioned; he prays. Likewise, the woman with continuous bleeding, the one with constant blood, prays according to her condition. If the time enters, she performs wudu' and prays, even if something comes out of her after she prays or during the time. When the time ends, she performs wudu' for the next time, and so on. Each time has its own wudu'. Pray even if blood comes out, even if it comes out in a bad state, or even if it comes out in a good state, as long as this is not continuous wind. Fear Allah as much as you are able, and seek forgiveness.
Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacityلَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
[Al-Baqarah 2:286]
. So the one with continuous urine, or continuous blood, or continuous wind, when the time enters, he performs wudu' and prays. Even if wind, urine, or blood comes out of him, all of that does not harm him, and praise be to Allah. This is from Allah's facilitation. Allah wants ease from you. Yes.
Source فتاوى الحج 1410 هـ - 7 — archive.org (27:45)

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