Q: 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?
A: 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.
اليقين لا يزول بالشك (الأشباه و النظائر 1/183)
ولو أيقن بالطهارة وشك بالحدث أو بالعكس أخذ باليقين ولو تيقنهما وشك في السابق فهو متطهر (الدر المختار 1/150)
Answered by:
Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)