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Junior Member
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
The Excellence of Ablution
The Apostle of God said, "Whoever performs his ablution well and prostrates himself twice in prayer without allowing anything worldly to distract his mind, will be absolved of all his sins, and will become as innocent as he was when he was born,b59
Or according to another version "without permitting his mind to wander, will be forgiven all his pastsins."60
The Apostle also said: "Let me tell you where¬with GGod atones sin and raises the ranks [of the faithful]: Performing the ablution though in distress, frequenting the mosques, and looking forward for the time of the next prayer. Verily this is the threefold bond."61
The Apostle performed the ablution throwing water once on every member and said, "Prayer is unacceptable before God except after such ablution."62
He performed the ablution throwing water twice and said, "Whoever performs the ablution throwing water twice on every member will twice receive his reward from God."63
Finally, he performed the ablution throwing water thrice and said, "This is my manner of ablution and that of the propehts before me and that of Abraham, the Friend of the Merciful God."64
The Apostle also said, "He who will remember God when he performs his ablution will have his whole body purified by God. But he who will not remember God at his ablution will not have his body purified except in those places where the water was applied."65
And again, "He who performs the ablution while pure, will be credited with ten good deeds by God."66
He also said, "An ablution upon ablution is like a light upon light."67
All this is to urge and induce men to repeat and renew their ablution. The Apostle also said, "When a Muslim, during the act of ablution, rinses his mouth, the sins leave it; when he blows his nose, they are gone therefrom; when he washes his hands, the sins, even those beneath his finger-nails, are removed; when he washes his head, he rids it of its sins, even those in and behind his ears, when he washes his feet, he cleanses them from sins, even those beneath his toe-nails. Then, and only then, will his going to the mosque and his prayer therein be meritorious.68
It has also been related that he who is pure has the same reward as he who is fasting.69 The Apostle also said, "Whoever performs his ablution well, and then lifts his head unto heaven and says, 'I testify that there is no god but Allah alone, He hath no associate, and I testify that Muhammad is His servant, the Apostle, the eight gates of Paradise will be flung open before him and he will enter therein through whichever gate he may desire."70
Said `Umar "Good ablution drives away Satan from you." Mujahid also said, "He who is able to go to bed purified, remembering God and penitent, let him do so, for souls are brought back to life in the same condition in which they were when taken away."
59. Cf. Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, Taharah: 183, 188.
60. Cf. al-Darimi Taharah:43.
61. cf. Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, Taharah-193.
62. Cf. Al-Bukhari, Wudu' :22.
63. cf. ibid, Wudu'; 23.
64. Cf ibid, Wudu': 24: Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, Taharah:902.
65. Unidentified.
66. Ibn-Majah, Taharah:73.
67. Cf. Surah xxiv: 35. The tradition itself seems to be spurious.
68. Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, Taharah: 187.
69. Unidentified. Cf. Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, Taharah:195.
70. Ahmad ibn-Hanbal, Taharah:203.
Al-Ghazzali
THE
MYSTERIES
OF
PURITY
( Kitab Asrar al-Taharah)