The questioner asks: If a man has sexual intercourse and then performs the full ritual bath, does the state of major ritual impurity remain if he does not urinate before the bath? He heard that there is no purification from major ritual impurity except after urinating before the bath.

The questioner : The question from the listener Muhammad Sulayman from the Lands of the West is the third one, and it aligns with several questions or messages we received for the program, which we have grouped with this question. These are messages from Sa'd Sa'ud al-Hudhali, Ibrahim Muhammad Sarur, Sulayman Ahmad, Nawal Ahmad, and Husayn Isma'il. We combine the messages of these five with the question of our brother Muhammad Sulayman. He asks: If a man has sexual intercourse and then performs the full ritual bath, does the state of major ritual impurity remain if he does not urinate before the bath? He heard that there is no purification from major ritual impurity except after urinating before the bath.

The Shaykh : What he heard is not correct. Purification from major ritual impurity is achieved even if one does not urinate, because Allah the Exalted says: meaning, perform the full ritual bath. It is not a condition that a person must urinate after sexual intercourse. However, if he does urinate, it is better from a medical standpoint so that the remnants of semen do not remain in their channels, that is, in the urinary tract. If he urinates, they will be expelled. Therefore, it is said that one should urinate after sexual intercourse, even if it is just a drop, so that what remains is removed.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : As for making it a condition for the removal of the state of ritual impurity, that is not correct.

The questioner : Yes.

The Shaykh : Yes, indeed.