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'''Copulation''' (Arabic: {{ia|الجِماع}}) is sexual intercourse between a human being and another human being or an animal. In Islamic jurisprudence, the words "jima'", "muwaqa'a", "waty" and "dukhul" are used to refer to copulation. The jurisprudential rulings of copulation are incumbent when penetration of the penis has occurred – at least to the size of circumcision. The jurists categorize copulation into three types: lawful, such as through marriage; forbidden, such as in adultery; and suspicious (by mistake), and propose different rulings for each. According to their "fatwa", copulation, on the front or in the back, causes "janaba", and to be cleansed from it, the person must perform ghusl of janaba. The prohibition of copulation between two men (''lawat''), two women (musahaqa), a human and an animal, as well as the reprehensibility of copulation with one’s wife from behind, are among the rulings regarding copulation.

==Definition and jurisprudential significance'==

In fiqh, copulation is referred to by titles such as "jima", "muwaqa'a", ''waty'', and ''dukhul,'' which refer to the sexual intercourse of a human being with another human being or with an animal. The rulings of copulation are discussed in many parts of ''fiqh'', such as purity, fasting, ''i’tikaf'', ''hajj'', marriage, divorce, ''zihar'', ''ila’'' and ''hudud''. Of course, these rulings are specific to the copulation in which penetration of the penis has occurred – at least to the size of circumcision.