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What is the ruling on the prayer of someone who performed ablution before leaving for work, then found it difficult to perform ablution for prayer at the university due to suffering from irritable bowel syndrome and doubting the emission of gas? Should she pray with her first ablution or repeat it?

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If a woman doubts the emission of wind, she is not required to perform ablution until she is certain of its emission, based on the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "If one of you doubts in his prayer and does not know whether something has been emitted from him or not, he should not leave until he hears a sound or finds a smell." If she is certain of the emission of wind, she must perform ablution without istinja' (washing the private parts). If the emission of wind is continuous, she must perform ablution for the time of each prayer and can pray the obligatory and supererogatory prayers until that prayer time expires.

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