Some Rulings Concerning One Afflicted with Involuntary Urination
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Question:
The questioner for the program is Abu 'Amr al-Za'bi from al-Ramtha, Jordan. He says: Your Eminence, is it permissible for one who is excused due to involuntary urination, or severe gas in his stomach, to perform wudu before the time of the obligatory prayer enters? This is so that he can arrive early at the mosque, catch the takbir of entering prayer, and the first rak'ah, and also so that he can pray the sunnah before the fard if the mosque is far away? Please guide us in light of this.
Answer:
It is obligatory for one who has a continuous state of ritual impurity not to perform wudu until after the time has entered, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to the woman with irregular bleeding: He should not rush, and he should extend it—may Allah will it—and pray. Even if he misses the takbir of entering prayer, and even if he misses the first rak'ah, it does not harm, praise be to Allah, if the mosque is far away. Yes.
The presenter: He says: Your Eminence, may Allah preserve you: Is it permissible for one with involuntary urination to be an imam in prayer?
Answer: There is scholarly disagreement on this, and the safest course for him is not to be an imam, in order to avoid the disagreement. The safest course is to be a ma'mum, in order to avoid the disagreement of those who prohibited it. Yes.
The presenter: He asks: Does involuntary urination that comes out after wudu affect the purity of the body and the clothes?
Answer: If it is within the time, after he has performed wudu within the time, and he has the condition of involuntary urination, it does not affect it. But when the time ends, he must purify his clothes, clean his clothes, and whatever affected his body. As for within the time, if he performs wudu within the time, and then urine comes out of him, he prays, even if it comes out, and even if it affects his clothes, until the time ends. This is like the woman with irregular bleeding, from whom blood comes out, and she prays, even if the blood comes out of her. So when the time ends, she purifies her clothes, purifies her body, and repeats the wudu for the next time.
The questioner for the program is Abu 'Amr al-Za'bi from al-Ramtha, Jordan. He says: Your Eminence, is it permissible for one who is excused due to involuntary urination, or severe gas in his stomach, to perform wudu before the time of the obligatory prayer enters? This is so that he can arrive early at the mosque, catch the takbir of entering prayer, and the first rak'ah, and also so that he can pray the sunnah before the fard if the mosque is far away? Please guide us in light of this.
Answer:
It is obligatory for one who has a continuous state of ritual impurity not to perform wudu until after the time has entered, based on the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to the woman with irregular bleeding:
I perform wudu for the time of every prayer
توضئي لوقت كل صلاةThe presenter: He says: Your Eminence, may Allah preserve you: Is it permissible for one with involuntary urination to be an imam in prayer?
Answer: There is scholarly disagreement on this, and the safest course for him is not to be an imam, in order to avoid the disagreement. The safest course is to be a ma'mum, in order to avoid the disagreement of those who prohibited it. Yes.
The presenter: He asks: Does involuntary urination that comes out after wudu affect the purity of the body and the clothes?
Answer: If it is within the time, after he has performed wudu within the time, and he has the condition of involuntary urination, it does not affect it. But when the time ends, he must purify his clothes, clean his clothes, and whatever affected his body. As for within the time, if he performs wudu within the time, and then urine comes out of him, he prays, even if it comes out, and even if it affects his clothes, until the time ends. This is like the woman with irregular bleeding, from whom blood comes out, and she prays, even if the blood comes out of her. So when the time ends, she purifies her clothes, purifies her body, and repeats the wudu for the next time.
Source
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