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OBLIGATORY BATH (GHUSL) FOR PRAYER285
The Holy Qur'an warns us against approaching prayer in a
physically or mentally unclean state when it says, "O you who
believe! Approach not prayer with a mind befogged, until you can
understand all that you say, nor in a state of ceremonial impurity
until after washing your whole body. If you are ill [and water may
be harmful], or on a journey [and there is no water], or one of you
comes from offices of nature, or you have been in contact with
women, and you find no water, then take for yourselves clean
earth [and rub therewith your faces and hands]."286
Muslims are commanded to keep themselves clean and free of
impurities at all times. It was the practice of Prophet Muhammad
Jfe to take a bath before the Friday and 'Id prayers.
If you take a bath and come out of the dirty water of the tub
without rinsing your body with clean, clear water, you cannot
possibly be clean. Even though a glass has been washed in soapy
water, it is not clean enough to drink from until it has been thor-
The Holy Qur'an warns us against approaching prayer in a
physically or mentally unclean state when it says, "O you who
believe! Approach not prayer with a mind befogged, until you can
understand all that you say, nor in a state of ceremonial impurity
until after washing your whole body. If you are ill [and water may
be harmful], or on a journey [and there is no water], or one of you
comes from offices of nature, or you have been in contact with
women, and you find no water, then take for yourselves clean
earth [and rub therewith your faces and hands]."286
Muslims are commanded to keep themselves clean and free of
impurities at all times. It was the practice of Prophet Muhammad
Jfe to take a bath before the Friday and 'Id prayers.
If you take a bath and come out of the dirty water of the tub
without rinsing your body with clean, clear water, you cannot
possibly be clean. Even though a glass has been washed in soapy
water, it is not clean enough to drink from until it has been thor-