{"id":2628,"date":"2020-09-11T11:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T09:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:10:13","slug":"what-is-the-minimum-age-for-a-boy-to-become-mature-baaligh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"What is the minimum age for a boy to become mature (Baaligh)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>What is the minimum age for a boy to become mature (Baaligh)?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. My son says that he had a wet dream last night. He is only ten years old. Is he now Baaligh? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>The Jurists (Fuqahaa) have stated that the minimum age for a boy to become mature (Baaligh) is 12 years of age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">If a boy experiences a wet dream or ejaculation before the age of 12 years, he will not be considered mature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-normal break-words\">Experiencing a wet dream or ejaculation will be considered valid as a sign of maturity after the age of 12 lunar years. <strong>(Al-Bahrur-Raaiq 8\/96)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the minimum age for a boy to become mature (Baaligh)? Q. My son says that he had a wet dream last night. He is<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-salah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4205,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions\/4205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}