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Ruling on taking bath (ghusl) after wet dream for who doesn't see water. 📃

Q: May Allaah be good to you. This questioner says: I am plagued with frequent wet dreams, but I often do not see water. Do I have to wash every time?

A: Whoever has a wet dream and sees images in his sleep and actions in his sleep, but he did not find water, then he is not obligated to do ghusl, whether he is a man or a woman. The reason for ghusl after a wet dream is the exit of water from a man or woman. If a man wakes up and finds semen in his clothes and does not remember the wet dream at all, then he must do ghusl. And if a man had a dream and saw what he saw, but when he woke up, he did not find anything in his clothes, he does not have to do ghusl. Likewise, a woman does not have to do ghusl if she has a wet dream, unless she sees water that women know