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Do discharges resulting from pleasant conversations, the occurrence of exciting thoughts and scenes, or wet dreams necessitate ghusl, and do they affect the validity of fasting and acts of worship?

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Normal secretions unrelated to desire are pure, invalidate ablution (wudu'), and do not necessitate ritual cleansing (istinja'). As for secretions related to desire, they are pre-seminal fluid (madhy), which is impure and invalidates ablution. The emission of pre-seminal fluid merely from talking or looking does not invalidate the fast; the correct view is that the emission of pre-seminal fluid does not invalidate the fast at all. Ritual bathing (ghusl) is not obligatory unless the woman is certain of the emission of semen after waking up from sleep.

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