What is the ruling for someone who was impure before Ramadan but did not perform the ritual purification because they thought what had come out did not necessitate impurity, and then during Ramadan realized it did and performed the purification? What is the ruling for the days that have passed in the month?
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Ayatollah Khamenei (may God protect him):
In such cases, you must perform the ritual purification upon realizing your impurity, and you must make up all the prayers you are certain you performed while in a state of impurity without a valid purification. As for your fasting, it is considered valid due to your ignorance of your impurity and your lack of intention to be in that state, as indicated in your question where you did not know that what came out was semen.
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Ayatollah Sistani (may God protect him):
You must make up the prayers you performed after becoming impure until the first valid ritual purification you performed, whether it was obligatory or recommended, such as the Friday purification. If you are unsure about the number of those prayers, it is sufficient to make up the certain ones, meaning the least number. As for your fasting, it is considered valid due to your ignorance of your impurity and your lack of intention to be in that state, as indicated in your question where you did not know that what came out was semen.
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