He prayed for three years without doing ghusl from janaabah
Question When I reached the age of puberty, I did not know that ghusl was essential after having a wet dream. I stayed like that for three years, after which I learned that ghusl is obligatory. My question is, what do I have to do with regard to the prayers that I did during this…
Question
I reached the age of puberty, I did not know that ghusl was essential
after having a wet dream. I stayed like that for three years, after which
I learned that ghusl is obligatory. My question is, what do I have to do
with regard to the prayers that I did during this period? Do I have to
make them up?
Praise be to Allah.
When
you find some semen in your clothes, you should do ghusl even if you do
not remember having an erotic dream. When the Muslim wakes up and find
some wetness – i.e., the traces of semen – on his clothes or on his
thighs, or in the place where he was sleeping, he has to do ghusl even if
he does not remember seeing an erotic dream. He has to do this because
this emission of semen makes ghusl obligatory, regardless of whether he
remembers the dream or not. If he remembers seeing an erotic dream but
nothing came out of him, such as if you were to say that you dreamt that
you were having intercourse with a woman, but when you woke up you found
no trace of semen on your clothes or your body or the place where you were
sleeping – do you have to do ghusl? In this case, ghusl is not
obligatory, so long as there was no semen, even if you did have an erotic
dream. Ghusl is connected to whether there is any semen emitted.
With
regard to what you say about praying without doing ghusl for janaabah for
three years, you and people in similar situations have to ask questions.
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
[al-Nahl
16:43].
The
way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those
who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray
[al-Faatihah
1:6-7 – interpretation of the meaning]
