What do I owe regarding my prayers and fasting in the past years when I practiced masturbation out of ignorance, and do I have to make up for the fasting? And is the ghusl (ritual bath) I performed after learning the ruling, which was similar to the ghusl for menstruation, sufficient?
What you did is considered masturbation. If you are not certain that semen was discharged, then ghusl is not obligatory. If you are certain that semen was discharged, then ghusl is obligatory. Your fast is not invalidated by the discharge of pre-seminal fluid due to masturbation.
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