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During the time of my wife’s menstrual period, seminal fluid makes contact with her when I have my orgasm. Must she purify the traces of this fluid or is there no need because she is ritually impure?
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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.
Removing impurities from the garment or body of one who wants to pray is obligatory according to the majority of scholars. However, scholars have differed regarding the ruling of removing impurities from one who does not want to pray either because it is not yet time for prayer or because they are not addressed to do it such as a woman in the time of her menstrual period or post-partum bleeding. Some of them view that it is obligatory while others view that it is not.
Ibn Hajar 
said in Al-Fat-h after speaking about the statement of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam: “One of them would not perform Istinjaa’ (i.e. washing the private parts with water) from urine.”
After some discussion, he said: “It implies a warning against letting urine get on oneself. The same ruling applies to other impurities on the body or garment. This also proves that removing an impurity is obligatory unlike the opinion that only implies its obligation at the time of wanting to pray.” End quote
Accordingly, if the fluid that gets on your wife is a Mathy (i.e. urethral fluid secreted at the time of an orgasm), then the two previous opinions apply in removing it because Mathy is impure. However, if it is semen, then she does not have to wash it but should rub it from her body or garment so it is clean because it (i.e. semen) is not impure according to the most preponderant opinion.
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