Answered by Shaykh Sohail Hanif, SunniPath Academy Teacher
The complete purificatory bath (ghusl)
THE COMPLETE PURIFICATORY BATH (GHUSL)
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Obligatory |
Confirmed Sunna |
Recommended |
Slightly Disliked |
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Throughout |
Cover your nakedness, to the extent reasonably possible |
Facing the direction of prayer & invocating if naked Wasting water. (Excessive waste of water, is prohibitively disliked and sinful.) |
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Beginning |
Begin with the name of Allah and formulate the intention whilst washing the hands up to the wrists |
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Wash the impurity from one’s body |
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Wash the private parts |
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Perform a complete ritual ablution with all its sunna acts |
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Wash the entire body making sure that the water reaches all parts of the body. It is obligatory to wash the mouth and nose. |
Wash three times and rub the body the first time. (Note that washing the entire body once counts as one washing.) |
Start each time by pouring water onto the head, followed by the the right shoulder, then the left shoulder, and rub the body. |