How to Perform Ritual Bath After Homosexual Acts During Ramadan?
Shafi'i Fiqh
Answered by Shaykh Jamir Meah
Question
- Should a man inserting the tip of the penis in another man’s anus perform a ghusl?
- Is the ghusl obligatory even if both were wearing clothes?
- Is this ghusl the same as the ghusl of janaba?
- Is it valid to fast in the state of janaba?
- I have masturbated during Ramadan. Sometimes during the day, sometimes during the night. Should I make up the previous fasts before the next Ramadan?
- Does the lack of intention impact the validity of ghusl after masturbation and wet dreams?
Answer
May Allah reward you for striving to practice the religion.
Please find below the answers to your questions in numerical order:
1) What Constitutes Ghusl?
For ghusl to be obligatory, the entire head of the penis must enter the orifice, anal or other. The tip of the penis does not obligate a ghusl.
2) Clothed
If the entire head of the penis went in, regardless of between clothes, then ghusl is obligatory.
Dear brother, it goes without saying that the above sins are prohibited and among the major sins. If these acts have been performed, and if you haven’t already, I urge you to repent as soon as possible and resolve never to return to them. May Allah guide you to every good.
3) Ghusl is the Same for All
Yes, both are the same.
4) Fasting in Janaba
The fasts are valid as it is not a condition of the fast that one is in a state of purity. One can still fast in a state of janaba.
5) Making Up Previous Fasts
Given what you have said, your fasts are valid except for the one that you broke it after suhur. You would need to make that day up and pay a fidya for the day, which repeats each year that passes without making the day up and paying the fidya.
Fidya consists of one mudd of the main staple food (a dry measure consisting of a medium handful, amounting to approximately 0.51 litres) of the place the person is in. One mudd must be paid for each day missed.
You should make sincere tawba for any past sins and practices, and be determined not to return to them again. Once done, move forward and observe Ramadan with energy and devotion.
6) Intention for Ghusl
As mentioned, your fasts are valid except for that one. In regards to the intention to take the ghusl, in the Shafi‘i school, one must make the intention to count it as a valid ghusl. It suffices that you simply know you were taking the ghusl to lift the state of janaba. If you took ghusl for other reasons, such as hygiene, then the ghusls would not count, and therefore, your prayers would not have been valid.
However, in the Hanafi school, the intention is not an integral of the ghusl. I suggest you read the description of the Hanafi position in the link below. If your ghusl fulfilled the conditions laid out in the answer then you may follow this opinion and consider your prayers valid. If your ghusls did not meet the Hanafi conditions, then your prayers would be invalid and need to be made up:
The Ritual Bath (ghusl): Obligatory, Recommended, and Disliked Acts
May Allah make you firm in the faith and guide you to everything that is good.
Warmest salams,
[Shaykh] Jamir Meah
Shaykh Jamir Meah grew up in Hampstead, London. In 2007, he traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he spent nine years studying the Islamic sciences on a one-to-one basis under the foremost scholars of the Ribaat, Tarim, with a main specialization and focus on Shafi’i fiqh. In early 2016, he moved to Amman, Jordan, where he continues advanced studies in a range of Islamic sciences, as well as teaching. Jamir is a qualified homeopath.
