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This is a sub-article of Sexuality in Islam and Islamic cleanliness.

Islamic sexual hygienical jurisprudence is a prominent topic in Islamic jurisprudence (Arabic: fiqh), due to its relevance to the issues prominent in everyday life.

[edit] Islamic rulings

Ibn Abidin, a 13th century Sunni Islamic scholar explains ^[1]:

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When there is discharge of thick, cloudy white fluid (wady) (that exits before or after urinating) or unlustful discharge of thin, sticky, white fluid (madhy) caused by play or kissing, it Requires ghusl. And wudu.

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In Sahih Muslim 3:684:

A narration attributed to Abu-Musa al-Asha'ari reports:

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There cropped up a difference of opinion between a group of Muhajirs (Emigrants and a group of Ansar (Helpers) (and the point of dispute was) that the Ansar said: The bath (because of sexual intercourse) becomes obligatory only-when the semen spurts out or ejaculates. But the Muhajirs said: When a man has sexual intercourse (with the woman), a bath becomes obligatory (no matter whether or not there is seminal emission or ejaculation). Abu Musa said: Well, I satisfy you on this (issue). He (Abu Musa, the narrator) said: I got up (and went) to 'A'isha and sought her permission and it was granted, and I said to her: 0 Mother, or Mother of the Faithful, I want to ask you about a matter on which I feel shy. She said: Don't feel shy of asking me about a thing which you can ask your mother, who gave you birth, for I am too your mother. Upon this I said: What makes a bath obligatory for a person? She replied: You have come across one well informed! The Messenger of Allah said: When anyone sits amidst four parts (of the woman) and the circumcised parts touch each other a bath becomes obligatory.

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Regarding things that necessitates Ghusl:

sperm or female ejaculate that leaves its place of origin with desire [f: whether actual or effective], even if it exits the body without desire, even if without sexual intercourse;
the head of the penis entering either private part of a living human being who is fit for sexual intercourse, even without any release of sexual fluids…” [al-Hadiyya al-`Ala’iyya (Gifts of Guidance, unpublished translation)]^[2]

[edit] Islamic medicine

In Islamic medicine, Muhammad is said to have understood the contagious nature of sexually transmitted disease in the 7th century, according to hadiths attributed to him.^[3]

In The Canon of Medicine (1025), Avicenna discovered the contagious nature of infectious diseases and fully understood the contagious nature of sexually transmitted disease.^[4]

[edit] References

^ Radd al-Muhtar ala al-Dur al-Mukhtar [1]
^ Wet dreams: is wudu enough or must ghusl be performed?
^ Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk (2000), Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies, "A Ninth-Century Muslim Scholar's Discussion". Ashgate, ISBN 0754602583.
^ Sarton, George (1927-31), Introduction to the History of Science, http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/Introl1.html#sarton2, retrieved 2008-01-25

[0] Radd al-Muhtar ala al-Dur al-Mukhtar [1]

[1] Wet dreams: is wudu enough or must ghusl be performed?

[Conrad-2] Lawrence I. Conrad and Dominik Wujastyk (2000), Contagion: Perspectives from Pre-Modern Societies, "A Ninth-Century Muslim Scholar's Discussion". Ashgate, ISBN 0754602583.

[Sarton-3] Sarton, George (1927-31), Introduction to the History of Science, http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/Introl1.html#sarton2, retrieved 2008-01-25

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