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Rulings on Ablution for a Person with Urinary Incontinence: Three Scholarly Opinions Question: If a person has urinary incontinence (continuous or irregular urine leakage), is it permissible for them to pray multiple prayers with a single ablution? Sheikh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli hafidhahullah (paraphrased): A person with urinary incontinence, as I have mentioned repeatedly, has two cases: 1. First case: urine keeps coming out continuously without stopping at all, dripping all the time. 2. Second case: it comes out involuntarily, and the person does not know when it will start or stop, and there is no fixed time when it is absent. This is also considered urinary incontinence. How should such a person purify themselves? Scholars have differed on this, and the strongest opinions are three: 1⃣. The easiest opinion (Maliki school): A person makes ablution when they want to pray, and that ablution is not invalidated by the urine that comes out due to incontinence, unless something else that normally breaks wudu happens. Even if several prayers pass. For example, if someone makes wudu at Dhuhr and prays Dhuhr and what follows, then Asr comes and nothing else that breaks wudu happens except the incontinence, they are still considered in a state of purity according to the Malikis. Even until Maghrib, the same applies. This is the easiest opinion. 2⃣. The strictest opinion (Shafi‘i school): They must make a new ablution for every single obligatory prayer. Each prayer requires a separate wudu. So if the person wants to pray Dhuhr, they make wudu when Dhuhr begins, pray Dhuhr and its Sunnah prayers, and then the wudu is considered ended for the next prayer. If they want to pray again or read Qur’an later, they must make wudu again. This is the strictest view. 3⃣. The moderate opinion (and the one preferred here): The person makes wudu once at the beginning of each prayer time. When the time for a prayer enters, they clean themselves, make wudu, and then remain in a state of purity for that entire prayer time, as long as no other nullifier of wudu occurs. For example, if they make wudu for Asr when its time begins, they remain pure until Maghrib time begins, unless something else breaks their wudu. During that time they may pray, read Qur’an, and perform acts requiring purity with that wudu. When the next prayer time enters, their wudu ends, and they must renew it again at the beginning of that new time, and so on. This moderate opinion is considered the strongest and most balanced in this issue. Source: https://t.me/khawaaaaatir/294