What If You Have the Urge to Fart While in Congregational Prayer?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
What should I do if I go to Jumua’ and have to fart during prayer? I can’t just get up and do wudu while everyone is praying; that would be strange. So what should I do?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate
I pray you are well.
Discharge of Wind in Prayer
If you already had a discharge of wind, it would be absolutely fine for you to end the prayer and go for wudu, or if did not yet, then leave the prayer hall, relieve yourself outside, do wudu, and return for the prayer. If you feel embarrassed, wait for the Imam to go into prostration and then leave.
One of the disliked actions in prayer is to pray while having the urge to urinate or defecate or while needing to relieve oneself from gas. Therefore, if it distracts one, one must break the prayer and relieve oneself unless one fears the prayer time will expire.
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I pray this helps with your question.
Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
