What Should I Do about My Prayers If Urine Leaks?
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
What Should I Do About My Prayers if Urine Leaks?
Answer
I understand your cautiousness, but it is important not to overdo it; you have to ask yourself if you are being overcautious doing the squeezing, coughing, etc. Just do one thing and keep to it.
Follow the guidelines below:
- Before performing wudu, you should be reasonably confident that the urine drops have stopped
- Do not give into misgivings or mere thoughts that droplets of urine might have come out.
- Sprinkle some water after you relieve yourself; this is a prophetic guideline
- Observe other religious people and request them to share their experiences
- Don’t go back on checking again and again; you have done what is to your best ability, then leave it; Allah will not hold to task, in sha Allah
- Perform regular Kegel exercises, which have the great benefit of strengthening the pelvic floor muscle and holding the bladder together
Damaged Eardrum and Discharges
[Tahtawi, Hashiya al-Tahtawi ’ala Maraqi ‘l-Falah]
Are You an Excused Person?
Rulings of the Excused Person
- You will need to make a new wudu for each prayer time. Once the prayer time exits, your wudu is considered invalid if any discharge comes out.
- Then renew wudu; after entry of each prayer, you can pray any with that wudu any prayers, touch the Quran, etc, just like one with a full wudu.
- Your wudu is invalidated by everything that breaks the wudu except for urine. Thus, passing wind, stool, sleeping, flowing blood, etc., will invalidate your wudu. You are only excused regarding ear discharge.
- A Reader on Ritual Purity, Urine Leakage, and Misgivings – SeekersGuidance
- How to Perform My Prayers amid Urine Drops and Other Urination Problems? (seekersguidance.org)
- Is Kegel Exercise Permissible For Men? – SeekersGuidance
- Does Exiting Fluid From an Ear Infection Break Wudu? – SeekersGuidance
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
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 hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled into an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and Alimiyyah sciences. He then travelled to Karachi, Pakistan.
He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for a number of years. He has taught hifz of the Qur’an, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to both children and adults onsite and online extensively in 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 personal interest is the love of books and gardening.
