Is it obligatory for a woman, when she performs the full ritual bath for major ritual impurity or menstruation, to wash the inside of her private parts?

The questioner : What is your opinion regarding the statement of the Shaykh al-Islam that it is not obligatory for a woman, when she performs the full ritual bath for major ritual impurity or menstruation, to wash the inside of her private parts, according to the most correct of the two opinions, and that if she does so, it is permissible?

The Shaykh : The ruling that it is not obligatory is very clear, because the one obligated is the exterior of the body, except for what is excluded, such as rinsing the mouth and sniffing water into the nose, according to those who make rinsing the mouth and sniffing water into the nose obligatory in the full ritual bath or in the ablution. As for the statement that if she does so, it is permissible, I agree with his statement, with the qualification that if she does so, it is not for the sake of worship, but rather for the sake of cleanliness. There is no harm in this, just as one who is afflicted with phlegm, for example, washes it for cleanliness, not for worship.

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : ... the first one.

The questioner : Yes, this first one, I did not hear it clearly.

The Shaykh : What is the first answer?
The student : He did not hear it.

The questioner : I mean, it was not clear to me, perhaps the sound or something like that.

The Shaykh : He says it is not obligatory.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : So I said, yes, it is not obligatory.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : You did not hear this.

The questioner : Yes, yes, that is right, Shaykh.

The Shaykh : How is that? Yes, I did not hear it.

The questioner : Yes, Shaykh, it was not clear...