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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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A woman discharges a lot and cannot distinguish whether the discharge was semen or pre-seminal fluid?

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The Shaykh : The sixteenth question: A woman discharges a lot and cannot distinguish whether the discharge was semen or pre-seminal fluid? And was the discharge due to desire or something else? What is obligatory for her? Is it obligatory for her to perform the full ritual bath for every prayer, or is washing the private parts and performing the ablution sufficient?
The question may contain some ambiguity or unclear wording, but I will answer with what I know regarding the issue of the fluid that discharges from a woman.
First: what obligates the full ritual bath, whether for a man or a woman, with no difference between them in this, is the fluid that is expelled forcefully and comes out with strength from the man or the woman. This is the fluid that obligates the full ritual bath. So if we suppose, for example, that a man or a woman, after satisfying the lawful desire and performing the full ritual bath, has drops of the remaining semen that were in the organ come out; this does not obligate the full ritual bath, because it was not expelled forcefully. There is in the Sunnah what indicates that the fluid that obligates the full ritual bath is the one that comes out with strength,
If the fluid spurts out, then perform the full ritual bath إذا نضَحْتَ الماء فاغتسل
Sunan al-Bayhaqi 1:738
, this is what he (peace be upon him) said.
From here we derive the ruling on an issue that appears in some books of Islamic jurisprudence: that a person sometimes carries a heavy load, and this white fluid, semen, comes out of him. Does this obligate the full ritual bath or not? There are two opinions in this issue, as is the case in many issues. But if we understand the previous hadith:
If the fluid spurts out, then perform the full ritual bath إذا نضَحْتَ الماء فاغتسل
Sunan al-Bayhaqi 1:738
So this person was dying from the weight of the load, and that fluid came out of him. Do we say: it is obligatory for him to perform the full ritual bath? There is no evidence for this.
From this hadith and its like, we derive a primary ruling, and then rulings that follow it, which are contrary to it. The primary ruling is that the fluid that obligates the full ritual bath is the fluid that is expelled forcefully, whether from a man or a woman. As for anything else, it does not obligate it. From this "other," if I may use the expression, this fluid that comes out of a man or a woman after performing the full ritual bath, this does not obligate the full ritual bath, even if it is the same fluid; that is, the semen from the man, or the woman's desire when it comes out or separates from her womb when her husband has intercourse with her.
Sometimes other fluids may come out of a woman, especially the white fluid. This, according to some scholars, obligates only the ablution. As for Ibn Hazm and others, it does not obligate anything at all. And this is what we see, because it is not semen, nor pre-seminal fluid, nor a thick fluid passed after urination, or anything like that which obligates the ablution.
Semen obligates the full ritual bath, and pre-seminal fluid and a thick fluid passed after urination obligate only the ablution. So this white fluid that comes out of a woman at times does not obligate her to perform the ablution, let alone obligate her to perform the full ritual bath.
This is what we are able to answer regarding this question to the extent that we understood it.
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