The third: the body becoming relaxed after it is emitted.

Not without both of them in one who is awake …

His statement, “not without both of them”: the pronoun refers to the forceful gush and pleasure.

His statement, “in one who is awake,” means someone who is not asleep. Thus, if it is emitted by someone who is awake without pleasure or a forceful gush, ghusl is not required of him.

It is understood from this that if it is emitted by someone who is asleep, ghusl is required unconditionally, whether or not it has these characteristics, because a sleeping person may not feel it. This often happens: a person awakens and finds traces of it, yet has no awareness of having had a wet dream. The evidence for this is that Umm Sulaym asked the Prophet ﷺ about a woman who sees in her sleep what a man sees in his sleep: Must she perform ghusl? He replied, “Yes, if she sees the fluid.” (1) Thus, he made ghusl obligatory when she sees the fluid, without stipulating anything further. This proves that ghusl is obligatory for one who wakes up and finds the fluid, whether he felt it being emitted or not, and whether he saw that he had had a wet dream or did not see so, because a sleeping person may forget. What is meant by “fluid” here is semen.

If a person wakes up and finds wetness, there are three possible cases:

The first: he is certain that it is something requiring ghusl—meaning that it is semen. In this case, he must perform ghusl, whether he remembers having had a wet dream or not.

The second: he is certain that it is not semen. In this case, ghusl is not required, but he must wash whatever it has touched, because its ruling is the same as that of urine.