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Ruling
about the secretion that comes from a woman's vagina
Question:
I heard from a scholar that the liquid that comes from a woman's
vagina is pure and not impure. Since the time I heard that
fatwa, I do not remove my underpants when I want to pray.
After a lengthy period, I heard another scholar say that such
liquid is impure. What is the correct opinion?
Response:
Everything that secretes from the private part, of liquid
or otherwise, nullifies the ablution. The clothes and bodily
parts that are touched by it are to be washed. If this happens
on a continuous basis, the ruling is the same as that of istihaadhah
and continuous seeping of urine [due to a lack of bladder
control]. The impurity is to be washed off and the person
makes ablution for every prayer, as the Prophet (sal-Allaahu
`alayhe wa sallam) stated to the woman with continuous
bleeding, "Make ablution for the time of every prayer." However,
this is not done in the case of passing gas. There is no washing
in that case although one has to make ablution due to it.
This ablution is to wash the face and hands, wipe the head,
wash the feet, and rinse the mouth and nose while washing
the face. Similarly, with respect to Sleeping, touching one's
private parts, eating camel's meat, one does not wash anything
but one simply has to make ablution.
Shaykh
Ibn Baaz
Fataawa al-Mar.ah
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