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Can the feeling of accumulated wind just disappear (without coming out) back into the body?

Published as Urge to Break Wind in Salaah

· 4 Jumada I 1433 AH1 min readEnglish

Question

I was performing salaah and during my last sajdah I felt accumulated wind about to come out i.e. I had the urge to break wind, when I sat back from sajdah that feeling was gone. Now I don't know whether the accumulated wind came out without me noticing it, or that the accumulated wind just disappeared into my body. In such case is my wudhu nullified? Can the feeling of accumulated wind just disappear (without coming out) back into the body? Or must I regard it as having come out even if I did not feel something coming out? Should I repeat the prayer and the prayer I have prayed after it?

Answer

Your Salaah is valid. Until you are not absolutely certain of it coming out you will consider yourself to be in the state of wudhu.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

اليقين لا يزول بالشك (الأشباه والنظائر 1/183)

ولو أيقن بالطهارة وشك بالحدث أو بالعكس أخذ باليقين ولو تيقنهما وشك في السابق فهو متطهر (الدر المختار 1/150)

ومن أيقن بالطهارة وشك في الحدث فهو على الطهارة ومن أيقن بالحدث وشك في الطهارة فهو على الحدث لأن اليقين لا يبطل بالشك (بدائع الصنائع 1/33)

قال أبو جعفر: ومن أيقن بالطهارة فلا يزول عنها بشك في حدث ومن أيقن بحدث فلا يزول عنه بشك في طهارة وذلك لما روى سهيل بن أبي صالح عن أبيه عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: إذا كان أحدكم في الصلاة فوجد حركة في دبر أحدث أو لم يحدث فأشكل عليه فلا ينصرف حتى يسمع صوتا أو يجد ريحا (شرح مختصر الطحاوي للجصاص 1/403)

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Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)
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