Madhi or Wadi?

f a drop or two of thick clear liquid oozes out without shahwa and without an erection BEFORE one urinates is it considered madhi or wady? Would it necessitate ghusl? If a trace of this managed to come on the undergarment should one change it or would one need to wash it with water (if changing it is impossible) or would one simply ignore it as it did not amount to the area of a "dirham”?

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious and Merciful

This liquid is considered wadi and not madhi. Wadi is defined as a thick white cloudy secretion that has no smell, and usually follows urination and can sometimes come before it. Whereas madhi is a clear thin secretion that exits in small amounts (f: when having a lustful thought or when making a lustful glance). [Maraqi al-Falah 1:150]

Both of these secretions are considered filth and necessitate wudu without ghusl. [Dur al-Mukhtar 1:111]

If a trace of any of these two filths, not amounting to the area of a dirham (approx. 5 centimetres in diameter), affects one’s clothing, then it would be recommended for one to remove it.

Fadi Qutub

Amman, Jordan

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