SOILED CLOTHES

�Aisha tells us that the �Messenger of Allah washed the semen, and then went out for prayer in that very garment and I saw the mark of washing on it� (570).  There is another hadIs of similar import, but it also narrates some material of Freudian significance.  A guest who was staying at �Aisha�s house had a nocturnal seminal emission.  Next day he dipped his clothes in water for washing.  A maidservant observed this and informed �Aisha.  She asked the guest: �What prompted you to act like this with your clothes?� He replied, �I saw in a dream what a sleeper sees.� Then �Aisha asked him: �Did you find any mark of fluid on your clothes?� He said: �No.� She said: �Had you found anything you should have washed it.  In case I found that semen on the garment of the Messenger of Allah dried up, I scratched it off with my nails� (572).

author : ram swarup