The Ruling on Performing Wudu Before Bathing and the Breaking of Wudu Upon Feeling the Impulse to Pass Gas

The questioner:
And if one performs wudu before bathing, is that valid, O Shaykh?

The Shaykh:
Yes, it is better to start with wudu before taking a bath, whether for janabah or otherwise. It is better to perform wudu, then take a bath, then perform ghusl. Yes.

The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! Sometimes a person performs wudu and feels that gas is about to come out, so he stops the wudu, but nothing comes out. Does he complete the wudu, or is he required to repeat it?

The Shaykh:
If he completes it, then he has broken the wudu. Let him sit outside the toilet and start it from the beginning. He has broken the wudu; he starts it from the beginning. He has broken the wudu. He wants to break the wudu so that the gas comes out and he starts from the beginning. The gas may go, and he starts from the beginning because he broke it. If he breaks the wudu, yes.