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Is it permissible to disregard the emission of slight flatulence due to an expanded anal sphincter, and is it obligatory to perform ablution (wudu') for discharges that accompany drops of urine if these conditions persist for hours?

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If the questioner is afflicted with waswasah (obsessive doubts), she must disregard them and pay them no attention, and not rule that anything has exited unless she has absolute certainty.

If she is certain that drops of urine are exiting and continuing during the prayer time, then this is سلس (urinary incontinence). She must perform ’ (ritual cleaning) and take precautions, then perform wudu’ (ablution) after the time for prayer has begun, and pray both obligatory and supererogatory prayers with this wudu’.

She should not rule that wind or discharge has exited unless she has certainty. The default is that they have not exited when in doubt. The discharge might be from the normal moisture of the private parts.

The description and rulings concerning wady (a thick, white discharge) have been clarified in a previous .

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