HOW IS A GHUSL PERFORMED?

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28 June 2013 / 19 Sha’ban 1434

HOW IS A GHUSL PERFORMED?
To perform a ghusl [1] as prescribed in the sunnat [2], we must first wash both of our hands and private parts even if they may be clean. Then, if there is any najasat [3] on our body, we must wash it away. Then we must perform a complete ablution. While washing our face we must intend to perform a ghusl. If water will not accumulate under our feet, we must wash our feet, too. Then we must pour water on our entire body three times. To do this, we must pour it on our head three times first, then on our right shoulder three times and then on the left shoulder three times. Each time the part on which we pour water must become completely wet. We must also rub it gently during the first pouring. In a ghusl, it is permissible to pour the water on one limb so as to make it flow onto another limb, which, in this case, will be cleaned, too. For in a ghusl the whole body is counted as one limb. If in performing an ablution the water poured on one limb moistens another limb, the second limb will not be considered to have been washed. When a ghusl is completed it is makruh [4] to perform an ablution again.

GLOSSARY
[1] ghusl: ablution of the whole body as defined in fiqh.
[2] sunnat: i) act, thing that was, though not commanded by Allahu ta’ala, done and liked by the Prophet (‘alaihi ‘s-salam) as an ‘ibada (there is thawab if done, but no sin if omitted, yet it causes sin if continually omitted and disbelief if disliked; the Sunna; i) (with fard) all the sunnas as a whole; ii) (with the Book or Qur’an al-karim) the Hadith ash-sharif; iii) (alone) fiqh, Islam.
[3] najasat: i) any kind of dirt, filth, that prevents one from performing namaz. ii)religiously impure thing.
[4] makruh: (act, thing) improper, disliked and abstained by the Prophet (‘alaihi ‘s-salam); makruh tahrima: prohibited with much stress.


Anybody who makes ghusl and goes to the mosque early on Friday will gain a reward of giving a camel as charity.

Hadith-i-sharif


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