My wife and I were just making love, not intercourse just love without clothes on. My semen came out, does ghusul become fardh on me? can I just make wadhu and pray salaat...

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

Assalaamu `alaykum waRahmatullahi Wabarakatuh

There could be two possibilities in your situation:-

1. Mazi (pre-coital fluid) which is thin.

2. Mani (sperm) which is thick.

If semen is discharged out of passion while one is awake or asleep, unconscious or conscious, through sexual intercourse or without sexual intercourse, or by fondling ones private part then ghusl becomes wajib. At the time of excitement, a particular fluid comes out which is called mazi. When climax is reached and one is satiated, the liquid which comes out at that time is called mani. The distinguishing factor between the two is that when mani comes out, satisfaction is attained and his passion becomes cooled, while the coming out of mazi does not decrease the excitement but increases it.

(Fatawa al-Hindiyya, V1 Pg14, Rasheediyah)

(Fatawa Mahmudiyya, V5 Pg 97-99, Faruqiyya)

(Tahtawi, Pg 96, Ilmiyya)

(Bahishti Zewar Pg 67 Zam Zam)

It will be necessary for you to have ghusl if you are certain that the liquid which came out is indeed semen.

And Allah knows best

Wassalamu Alaikum

Ml. Ebrahim Desai,
Student Darul Iftaa

Checked and Approved by:

Mufti Ebrahim Desai
Darul Iftaa