Do Nocturnal Orgasms Necessitate Ghusl, If No Discharge Is Found?


Hanafi Fiqh

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

I frequently experience orgasms in my sleep, but often, no discharge reaches the external part of the labia. Today, after an orgasm, I found only slight moisture without apparent discharge. Is ghusl required in this case if no discharge exited externally?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

No, ghusl is not required on you if, during your sleep, you experience an orgasm and wake up to find no discharge or wetness (different than the naturally occurring moisture of the vagina). [Maydani, al-Lubab fi Sharh al-Kitab]

The naturally occurring discharge of the female private part is pure and doesn’t put one in a state of ritual impurity. [Ibid.]

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[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
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Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.

He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.

In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.