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Is ghusl required after a wet dream resulting from masturbation if one wakes up quickly and is unable to distinguish between semen and other secretions?

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Masturbation is forbidden, and repentance from it is obligatory. Nocturnal emission (wet dream) is not considered masturbation. Whoever wakes up after a wet dream and finds wetness must perform ghusl (ritual bath), according to the more correct opinion, whether he knows the wetness is semen or is ignorant of its being semen.

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