Answered by Shaykh Sohail Hanif, SunniPath Academy Teacher
When you do ghusl and you have to ”make sure all your hair or skin is wet”, does this mean that you have to ”maintain its wetness” till the end of the ghusl?
Assalamu alaykum
Yes, one must indeed wash all of the hairs on one’s body to the roots. One should be sure to avoid misgivings (waswasa) regarding this. Please look up baseless misgivings and doubts in the SunniPath archives (at www.SunniPath.com) in this regard.
One is not obliged to perform the ritual bath (ghusl) in one sitting. The ghusl is valid as long as the entirety of one’s body is washed, regardless of whether the whole body is wet by the end or whether some parts are dry and others wet. It is however a confirmed sunna to perform it from beginning to end without an unnecessarily prolonged delay.
Sohail Hanif