Discharge from the Outer Body

If something that exactly resembles madhy [translatable as “pre-ejaculate”] exits from a woman, but it exits from the outer body (i.e. that which is exposed when she squats), and not from the inner, is it pure or filthy?

This secretion is indisputably pure: it is rutubat al-farj, or the moisture from the private parts, not madhy, since [madhy] is secreted from the inside, not the outside. It says in the Tuhfah, “…and the moisture from the private parts (rutubat al-farj), namely the front part: it is a white fluid between madhy and sweat that is secreted from inside the private parts where it is not necessary to wash; as opposed to that which is secreted from where it is necessary to wash [i.e. that which is exposed when squatting], for it is indisputably pure; and that which is secreted from beyond the inner private parts, for it is indisputably filthy, like any other secretion from the inside [of the private parts].”

- Amjad Rasheed

(Translated by Sidi Mostafa Azzam)

 

السؤال: إن خرج من المرأة ما يشبه المذي تماما لكنه خرج من الظاهر أي : ما يظهر عند جلوسها على قدميها ولم يخرج من الباطن فهل هو طاهر أم نجس ؟

الجواب : هذا الخارج طاهرٌ قطعاً وهو رطوبة الفرج وليس مذياً ، إذ هو يخرج من الباطن لا من الظاهر ، قال في "التحفة" :" ( ورطوبة الفرج ) أي القبل وهو ماءٌ أبيضُ متردد بين المذي والعرق يخرج من باطن الفرج الذي لا يجب غسله ، بخلاف ما يخرج مما يجب غسله فإنه طاهر قطعا ، ومن وراء باطن الفرج فإنه نجس قطعاً ككل خارج من الباطن ". اهـ