Question
Reference number: 186349 | Fasting | April 5, 2023
What is the ruling on the emission of semen from a fasting man while he was getting a nap?
Answer
Praise Be to Allah and Peace Be Upon His Messenger.
Referring to your question, emission of semen while a man was dreaming while getting a nap does not influence fasting; in other words, fasting is valid. However, if it happens as someone keeps looking at something or thinking about something, he has to make up that day and pay ransom. If he does not look or think for a long time, but semen was emitted, he has to make up the day only. Finally, if semen was emitted by chance, that is, not due to the above mentioned reasons, there is nothing wrong about it; fasting is valid, but he has to take the purity bath to be able to pray.