Does a wet dream, whether intentional or unintentional, invalidate the fast and necessitate breaking it, or is it permissible to complete the fast?
If a fasting person experiences a wet dream while asleep and semen is discharged, their fast remains valid. This is because they are not accountable while asleep, and a wet dream is not by their choice. There is a consensus that it has no effect on the fast. However, if semen is discharged while awake due to repeated lustful gazing, touching, or masturbation, the fast is invalidated according to the preponderant opinion. Most scholars hold that expiation is not required, but one must refrain from eating and drinking for the rest of the day out of respect for the month, and a makeup fast becomes obligatory. Repeatedly looking at what incites lust is forbidden and necessitates lowering one's gaze. Committing sins in Ramadan escalates their gravity.
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