A woman and her husband engage in wooing and courtship during engagement period. They do not have sex but they derive other kinds of pleasures from each other. When does it become obligatory for the woman to perform Ghusl-e Janabat? Does mere sexual excitement make Ghusl mandatory? Please explain in brief.
A woman and her husband engage in wooing and courtship during engagement period. They do not have sex but they derive other kinds of pleasures from each other. When does it become obligatory for the woman to perform Ghusl-e Janabat? Does mere sexual excitement make Ghusl mandatory? Please explain in brief.

 

In the Name of God, the Most High

A person enters the state of Janabat in two ways:

1. Sexual intercourse: If a person has sexual intercourse with a woman and the male organ enters either of the private parts of the woman up to the point of circumcision or more, both of them enter Janabat, regardless of whether they are adults or minors and whether ejaculation takes place or not.

2. Discharge of semen, while sleeping or when awake, little or more, with lust or otherwise, voluntarily or involuntarily. When one cannot ascertain whether the fluid emitted from one's body is semen, urine or something else, it will be treated as semen if it is thrown out with lust and if the body is slackened. If all or some of these signs are not present, the person is not considered to be in the state of Janabat and the fluid will be ritually pure.

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