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What is the ruling on the discharges that come out of a woman after the full ritual bath?

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The questioner : The questioners say: A group of women are asking about the ruling on fluids coming out of them after the full ritual bath from intercourse. Sometimes it happens immediately after the bath, and sometimes we see the state of the fluids after waking up from the Fajr prayer. What is the ruling on a woman reading the Qur'an during her lifetime?

The Shaykh : These things that come out of a woman's private parts without desire do not obligate the full ritual bath.
However, regarding what comes out from the birth canal, the scholars differed on its impurity. Some scholars said that the moisture of a woman's private parts is ritually impure, and she must purify herself from it as she purifies herself from impurity. Other scholars said that the moisture of a woman's private parts is pure, but it invalidates the ablution if it comes out. As for what comes out from the urinary tract, it is ritually impure because it has the ruling of urine. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has placed two passages in the woman: one from which urine comes out, and one from which the child comes out. The discharges that come out from the second passage, the one from which the child comes out, are natural discharges, fluids that Allah, Mighty and Majestic, creates in this place for a wisdom. As for what comes out from the place from which urine comes out, this usually comes out from the thick fluid and is ritually impure. All of it invalidates the ablution, because it is not necessary for the thing that invalidates the ablution to be ritually impure. Here is the wind that comes out of a person; is it pure and not ritually impure? Is the wind that comes out of a person's rear pure and not ritually impure?
It is pure, and yet it invalidates the ablution. Our saying that it is pure should not be strange to you. If a person is wearing trousers and wind comes out of him, the wind touches these trousers while they are wet. If we said it was ritually impure, the trousers would become impure because they came into contact with impurity while wet, so it would stick to them. And if we say it is pure, which is the correct view, then these trousers do not become impure by the release of wind. The evidence is that the Lawgiver did not obligate cleaning oneself after it.

Another questioner : Her father, what is the evidence that a woman's father is invalidated when the questioner asks about the passage of her children?

The Shaykh : The evidence is the generality of the text. I have not seen anyone say that it does not invalidate the ablution except Ibn Hazm, but he did not mention that anyone preceded him in that. So we issue the ruling that it is obligatory for her to perform the ablution.

Another questioner : The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "From his two private parts."

The Shaykh : No, the Messenger did not say "coming out from the passage"; this was said by the jurists. Yes.
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 21 - 22 - دروس وفتاوى المسجد الحرام للعام 1408 هـ الدرس الحادي والعشرين الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين — youtube.com (44:53)

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