Does a Feeling of Passing Wind Invalidate the Wudu, if There Is No Accompanying Sound or Smell?

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

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and a number of texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.