A question regarding whether sexual imagination without reaching climax, which results in significant fluid emission, necessitates a ritual bath and invalidates fasting.
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Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Khamenei (may God protect him):
- For men:
If the three signs of semen (desire, bodily relaxation, and emission) are not present, or if some are present and others are not, or if there is doubt about their presence, then the fluid that comes out does not have the ruling of semen, and a ritual bath is not required unless there is certainty through another means that it is semen.
- For women:
If a woman reaches the peak of pleasure and fluid is emitted at that moment, she has become ritually impure and must perform a bath. However, if she doubts whether she reached that state or whether the fluid was emitted at that time, then there is no obligation on her.
Source: Educational Message, Purity, Bath (3) + Answers to Inquiries, S177, 180 + Rulings on Waswasa.
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Sistani (may God protect him):
- For men:
The fluids that come out of a man that resemble semen are all pure and do not invalidate ablution, while semen itself is impure, invalidates ablution, and requires a bath.
The signs of semen in case of doubt are three: it comes out with emission and desire, followed by bodily relaxation. If these three signs occur, the fluid is considered semen.
- For women:
If a significant amount of fluid is emitted from a woman's vagina with desire, such that it stains her underwear and is recognized as emission, and if it occurs with intense sexual arousal and reaching climax (often referred to as orgasm), it is considered semen (i.e., impure and requires a bath). This applies even if she does not reach climax, as a precaution.
However, if the fluid is emitted without desire or if it is localized moisture that does not exceed the vagina and occurs with light sexual arousal, it does not necessitate ritual impurity and is considered pure. The same ruling applies if there is doubt about the emission of fluid or its extent; purification is not required, nor does it invalidate the bath or ablution, and there is no need to investigate in case of doubt. If the fluid lightly stains some clothing, it does not count as emission if it is light moisture.
Source: Minhaj al-Salihin, Vol. 1, Cause of Ritual Impurity, Second + Official site: 1, 2.
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