Question:
Does a feeling of passing wind invalidate the wudu, if there is no accompanying sound or smell?
Answer:
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate,
The actual passing of wind invalidates wudu. If one is uncertain whether the wind has exited the anus or not, the following criteria are applied:
If you are reasonably sure that wind has fully exited the body from the anus, act as though your wudu has been invalidated. If, however, you are doubtful as to whether or not wind exited, ignore your doubts as you are still in a state of purification. [Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat Maraqi al-Falah]
Always use this principle – “Certainty is not removed with doubt.” [Ibn Nujaym, al-Ashbah wa al-Nazair]
If you are certain that you were in a state of purification and doubt whether that state was invalidated by some factor, you are pure.
I hope this helps,
Allah knows best.
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani