Is semen pure or impure, and what is the ruling on the saying that man was created from impurity?
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The scholarly disagreement regarding the purity of semen is not applicable to humans on the grounds that their origin is from semen, because semen undergoes a complete transformation (istihalah), which is purifying by consensus.
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