Does removing clothes and touching one's wife with the intention of intercourse, without it occurring, nullify ablution and necessitate ritual purification?
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Merely undressing does not invalidate ablution, unless desire is stirred and pre-seminal fluid () or semen (manyy) is discharged. If what is discharged is semen, then (ritual bath) becomes obligatory. If it is pre-seminal fluid, then only washing the male organ and performing ablution are required. As for touching a woman without any discharge, and touching the male organ, there is a difference of opinion among scholars regarding these actions.
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