Adult Muslims perform an ablution called ghusl before rituals and prayers. This whole body ritual should be performed by men and women after intercourse or sexual practices, after menstruation, after losing consciousness, after childbirth and death from natural causes. The whole body must be washed, scrubbed and covered with water to remove impurities.
Steps
Part 1 of 3: Finding the Water
Step 1. Find a source of clean water
It could be rain, a well, the sea, a fountain, a stream that flows from a glacier or a pond. A 6.5x6.5m body of water is considered large enough to hold pure water.
Step 2. Do not use impure water, the one that falls from the trees, that comes out of the fruit or that used for a previous ghusl or wudu
Even that which contains human or animal body fluids is considered unacceptable. Do not use water that is not transparent.
Step 3. If you are traveling and do not have water available, rub your face and hands with clean earth or sand
You should do ghusl with water as soon as it is available.
Part 2 of 3: Understanding the Mandatory Nature of Ghusl
Step 1. Practice ablution after any fluid leak or spill
It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman, it doesn't matter if you have had sexual intercourse or not. However, it remains a mandatory practice after sex.
Step 2. At the end of your period, do ghusl
This also applies after bleeding due to childbirth. If you don't have extensive bleeding after your baby is born, do the ablution after 40 days anyway.
Step 3. Wash those who have died of natural causes in the same way
Those who died in Jihad do not need it.
Step 4. Consider doing ghusl voluntarily after one of the following situations
This is not an obligation, although it is highly recommended.
- When an unbeliever converts to Islam.
- Before the Friday Prayer.
- Before the Salat al-Eid Prayers.
- After washing a body.
- Before embarking on the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Step 5. Find a place where you can enjoy maximum privacy for this ritual
Part 3 of 3: Practicing Ghusl
Step 1. Begin by declaring your intention to practice ghusl as a purification
It is a silent statement in your heart.
Step 2. Pronunciation:
"Bismillah." Repeat the entire sentence.
Step 3. Stand in front of the water
Wash your right hand up to the wrist. Rub between your fingers. Repeat the gesture three times.
Step 4. Do the same thing with your left hand and repeat the wash three times
Step 5. Wash your private parts
Do it three times. Remove any dirt from your body with water by rubbing it with your hands.
Step 6. Cup your right hand
Take the clean water and pour it into your mouth. Rinse and spit.
If you wish, you can repeat the gesture three times
Step 7. Suck in the water from your right hand with your nose
Blow it out on your left hand. Repeat three times.
Step 8. Switch to the face
Wash it three times from the forehead to the chin and along the jaw. Clean it from ear to ear.
Men should wash their beard by taking a handful of water and rubbing it on their chin. Run your wet fingers once through your beard hair
Step 9. Wash your right arm up to the elbow three times
Repeat with your left arm.
Step 10. Pour the water on your head three times and drop it on the nape of your neck
If women or men have their hair tied up in a braid, they should wet the base. If this is not possible, the braid should be untied.
Step 11. Wash your right body by pouring water freely over your shoulder
Do the same on the left side.
Step 12. Pour the water on your head
Scrub your entire body to make sure it's clean.
Step 13. Move away from where you performed these ablutions or stand on a platform
Wash your feet, right and then left, up to your ankles. Make sure the water runs between your fingers and rub your little finger.
- Wash the soles of your feet.
- All this must be repeated three times.
Step 14. Dry with a clean towel and clothes
Don't linger and cover yourself. As soon as your body has been thoroughly washed three times, you are worthy of practicing the Salah.
Advice
Women should remove their nail polish before the ritual. Men and women should remove anything that prevents water from washing the skin
Warnings
- Do not perform ghusl in the direction of the Qibla, the direction in which the Kaaba is located in the city of Mecca.
- Don't talk during ghusl.
- Remember that if you forget to wash a part of your body, purification is nothing. You have to be precise and detailed with the desire in your heart to be pure.
