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Do we have to ( Farz ) take bath ( ghusal ) after the intercourse with our wife? If yes ......Then tell me in detail that if someone wants to have more then 1 intercourses in 1 night with his wife. Will it be necessary for him to take bath after every intercourse or he could take bath in the morning after finishing more then 1 intercourses.

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Answer:

Multiple intercourse

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Your Question: Do we have to ( Farz ) take bath ( ghusal ) after the intercourse with our wife?

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 6: O ye who believe! When ye prepare for prayer wash your faces and your hands (and arms) to the elbows; rub your heads (with water); and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If ye are in a state of ceremonial (post-sexual) impurity, bathe your whole body.

If one in the state of post-sexual impurity, it is absolutely obligatory for the person to have a ‘ghusl’ or full bath of purification before he makes himself available to offer his prayers.

Fiqh-us-Sunnah Fiqh 1.41a

If a person in a state of post-sex impurity wants to eat, drink or have intercourse again, he should perform ablution.

Said 'Aishah, "When the Prophet (saws) was in a state of impurity because of intercourse and wanted to eat or sleep, he would perform ablution."

Ammar ibn Yasar reported that the Prophet permitted a person in post-sex impurity to eat, drink or sleep if he performed ablution first.

Related by Ahmad and at-Tirmidhi.

If one is in a state of post-sex impurity, the only act that will purify him is a ‘ghusl’ or full bath. But if for any reason one wishes to postpone the taking of the ‘ghusl’ or full bath and wishes to eat or drink or sleep, it is recommended and the Sunnah that he should perform the wudu first before he eats or drinks or sleeps.

Your Question: Then tell me in detail that if someone wants to have more then 1 intercourses in 1 night with his wife. Will it be necessary for him to take bath after every intercourse or he could take bath in the morning after finishing more then 1 intercourses.

Abu Sa'eed reported that the Prophet (saws) said, "If one has intercourse with his wife and wants to repeat the act, he should perform ablution. It makes the return more vivacious."

Related by Muslim, Tirmidhi, Abu Dawood, Ibn Khuzaimah, Ibn Hibban and al-Hakim.

If one wishes to have more than one intercourse with one’s wife, one need not take a ghusl or full bath between the two intercouses, but rather he should perform the ‘wudu’ or ablution between them.

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Your Brother in Islam,

Burhan