Semen of human is pure. [End text from Zaad
al-Mustaqni’]
Semen is what is ejaculated from humans with
desire. Allah, the Most High, describes it:
‘Have we not Created you from thick water?’
[al-Mursalat: 20]
Meaning, it is thick and is a not a runny
liquid. Through this semen humans are created, Allah, the Most High says:
‘And indeed We created man (Adam) out of an extract of clay (water and
earth). 13. Thereafter We made him (the offspring of
Adam) as a Nutfah (mixed drops of the male and female sexual
discharge) (and lodged it) in a safe lodging (womb of the woman).’
[al-Mu’minoon: 12-13]
So from semen Prophets, righteous servants, the truthful, martyrs and
all the pious were created.
So to affirm the purity of human semen we have three angles:
1) In origin, all things are permissible and pure except with evidence.
2) The Hadith of ‘Aisha [may Allah be Pleased with her] that she used to
scratch off the semen of the Prophet [Peace and Blessings be upon him] and wash
it only when it was wet on the garment. Had semen been impure, scratching alone
wouldn’t have purified the garment, and we know this because the Prophet [Peace
and Blessings be upon him] commanded
that the woman going through al-Istihaadah must wash off any blood on her
garment.
3) Through semen there have been many pious and pure people been
created, so how can the origin of their creation be sourced from something
impure?
Ibn al-Qayyim talks about this in his book Badai’ al-Fawai’d in which
two people men debated on the origin of man (i.e. semen), is it pure or impure?
He says:
If a person argues that semen takes the same ruling as all other human
waste, such as urine and defecation etc.
We say in response:
-Not everything that comes out of the human body is impure, such as phlegm
and sweat is also another example of pure liquid.
-There's a huge difference between urine and defecation and semen as the
former are waste products of food and drink. However, semen stems from blood
and then changes into semen as desires grow. So comparing the two is not
correct hence, rulings connected to them would also be different.
From this we have established that animals that are permissible to eat
are pure in their waste – urine and defecation – as well as urine.
For humans, their semen is pure but urine and defecation are impure.
Animals that are not permitted to eat are not pure in their semen, urine
and defecation.
As a result, some of the scholars have stated that whatever is pure in
life is pure in its semen.
ash-Sharh al-Mumti', 1/453-455
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