Q: If I experience pre-seminal leakage that is apparent in every salah time am I excused or not? I cannot feel it come out but I know it will be there in every salah time although it isn’t constantly flowing. It causes me great difficulty having to check everytime if something has come out… because I may be reading salah or Quran and fear that my wudu has broken but I wouldn’t even feel it. If someone were excused do they need to wash the private area everytime and does the cloth covering the private part need to be changed everytime?
A: A ma`zoor (excused person) is that person who experiences a breaker of wudhu, like passing of gas or urine incontinence etc. so frequently that from the beginning of the namaaz time until the end of the namaaz time he/she is unable to perform wudhu and read namaaz without that particular breaker of wudhu occurring. Once this is established, one will remain a ma`zoor for as long as that particular breaker of wudhu occurs at least once in the rest of the salaah times that follow. Hence, if the pre-seminal discharge is so frequent that you qualify as a ma`zoor then you will only have to make wudhu at the beginning of each namaaz time irrespective of how many times the discharge is experienced. If you do not qualify as a ma`zoor then you will have to make wudhu whenever your wudhu breaks.
And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.
Answered by:
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)