Oral Sex (Intercourse) in Islam A Very Detailed Thread 🧵
Summary
A detailed Islamic jurisprudence thread analyzing the permissibility of oral sex across the four major Islamic legal schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali), examining their positions on the purity of sexual fluids and whether consumption is permitted, disliked, or forbidden based on classical Islamic scholarship and legal principles.
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Oral Sex (Intercourse) in Islam A Very Detailed Thread 🧵
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In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful.
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Table of Content
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Introduction: The reason for writing this book was because people were asking me about Oral sex and i was saying i will answer them but i was delaying them and there is nothing good online Islam QA is full of trashy emotional argument which forced me to write this.
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The first question is what is the view of each madhab on such acts and do their principles support this case if we apply them to this oral case? I. The Fundamental Legal Distinctions 1. The act itself is not indentical to the ingestion of fluids
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Some Shafis said its permissible to eat Semen and its the view of Abu Zayd Marwazi because its pure and causes no harm and being repulsive is not enough to call it haram. 2. Taharah is not indentical to permissibility of consumption:
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The Shafis said if there is anything that sound human natrue finds repulsive then its among the khaba'ith consuming it is forbidden. So as per the relied upon Shafi position eating Semen is not permissible because its repulsive as per them. 3. Najasah, Khaba'ith adab and haram
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are distinct categories. A Ruling cannot be simply transferred from one cateogry to another without establishing the necessary legal conection:
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"The Mouth recites the Quran, therefore the act is haram" We must ask whether the rationale establishes tahrim, karahah or only because of adab? If Mady (Semen) is pure then its permissible to swallow it?
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But we must ask wether there exists some independent prohibition under the doctrine of khaba'ith or another legal category.
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II. The Hanafi School Husband and wife can touch every private part of their partner and can even kiss them anywhere. Hanafis in 387 AH discussed oral sex: "If a man inserts his penis into his wife's mouth it has been said that its disliked and also the contray has been said."
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Some said its disliked and not allowed because we recite the Quran with our mouth. But if that's the case then our hands are used for bad deeds we even touch our private parts with them but still we use them to grab the Mushaf which refutes that reasoning.
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The Hanafi School considers pre seminal fluid (madhy) impure and also semen (mani) is impure as per them. But Vaginal moisture is pure as per Abu Hanifa.
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So the Hanafi view is that those fluids are impure thus touching them or placing them in your mouth is not permissible as they are impure. The view i choose in the hanafi madhab:
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My Hanafi Ruling on oral sex:
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III. The Maliki School: 1. The early Maliki evidence: "Asbagh said there is no harm in licking the private part of your wife and he may lick it whenever he wishes." The Meaning of Asbagh's Statement:
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Some also narrated the same words but attributed them to Imam Malik. And said this mean's its permissible but is not to be taken according to its literal meaning but what Ibn Rushd said about this is clear.
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Pre Seminal Fluid (Madhy) Semen (Mani) Vaginal Moisture: "The well known position of the school of Malik is that they are impure." So as per the Malikis all of these are impure fluids and consuming them is not permissible in the maliki madhab The view I choose in Maliki madhab
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But the Maliki treatment of istiqdhar is interesting and as per mere natural disgust cannot be simply turned into an autonomous source of tarhim. So if semen was pure in their madhab then they would have uses the same reasoning which Abu Zayd Marwazi did.
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My Maliki ruling:
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IV. The Shaf'i School: 1. Broad marital enjoyment: 2. Explicit sucking of the clitoris: "The Husband may enjoy every form of enjoyment from her even by sucking her clitoris." This is one of the clearest classical texts in this entie discussion for the permissibility of oral
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gential stimulation itself. Mani is pure but the view is that consuming it is not permissible because its repulsive. Madhy (pre seminal fluid) is impure as per the Shaf'i School.
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5. Vaginal moisture: "Vaginal moisture according to the sounder view refers to a white fluid that lies between madhy and sweat and emerges from the interior of the vagina that is not required to be washed." 6. The view I choose in the Shaf'i madhab: My Shaf'i Ruling:
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So the shaf'i position is also that this act is permissible but it can become unlawful.
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3. Touching and kissing the penis with desire: "She does not have the right to insert her husband's penis into her vagina while he is asleep without his permission but has the right to touch it and kiss it with desire." 4. Licking the genitalia and sucking the clitoris:
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5. The post-coital issue: "It is permissible to kiss the woman's vulva before intercourse, and it is disliked after intercourse." The precise 'illah for this karahah should not be overstated it is tempting to say that the reason is simple the presence of madhy or other seuxal
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discharge. Thay mar form the part of this juristic consideration particularly given the standard hanbali treatment of madhy as najis the the short manual statement itself does not necessarily spell out every aspect of the legal cause.
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Consequently if i adopt the purity position for madhy, the najasah based rationale cannot remain exactly as it was. 6. Madhy the standard position and the strong alternative view: Vaginal moisture is pure for us. Semen is also pure for us like the shafis.
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9. The Hanbali doctrine of khaba'ith: "Whatever the arabs regard as foul." A pure object and nevertheless be prohibited to consume because it is judged khabith. 10. Ibn Taymiyyah's alternative and its attribution to Ahmed:
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So as per Ibn Taymiyyah and Imam Ahmed something being repulsive is not enough to call it prohibited thus consuming semen is permissible in hanbali madhab. 11. The View i choose in the Hanbali madhab: My Hanbali ruling:
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