What is the correct purification for a couple after intercourse, and is it permissible for them to wear clothes that became impure during intercourse?
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There is no legal impediment to wearing ritually impure clothes unless the Muslim is in a state that requires ritual purity, such as prayer or circumambulation (). Semen—from both men and women—is not ritually impure according to the more preponderant opinion.
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