Prayer Recitation of Quran and Ablution or Bath
In Islam, it is compulsory to do ablution before offering a prayer. Sahih Muslim (2.0435) writesthat Allah will not accept any prayers without ablution. The rules on Islamic ablution are quiteelaborate, sometimes queer, and mind boggling. A devotee will wash with water his/her hands,face, feet; pour water inside nostrils, then gush it out, gurgle water and pass wet hands aroundhis/her neck to complete the ritual of ablution. There are strict rules on the number of times eachlimb should be washed, and how many times water is to be gurgled. We shall review, very briefly, a few features of Islamic ablution.The most important reward from ablution is that it is a cleansing process—not for the body itself,for, even after ablution plenty of dirt and pollution might stay in the body, but from all sins. Inreality, a Muslim can commit any number of sins, and just by performing ablution all the sinscommitted prior to ablution will be expiated. Sahih Muslim (2.0476) writes that if you performablution all sins will come out of your body even from your nails. To entice the Muslims to thecomplete surrender to this endless daily ritual, Sahih Bukhari (1.4.161) writes that if a Muslim performs perfect ablution Allah forgives sins committed between two prayers. In Sahih Muslim(2.0475) we read that during ablution Allah forgives all sins (committed by eyes) for washingeyes. Ditto for hands, and other parts of the body.The above few sentences will explain why many Muslim students/residents in non Muslimcountries such as Australia, USA, Canada…and so on demand exclusive ablution facilities incampuses and in other public toilets. They want to do perfect ablution so that whatever sins theycommit in infidel lands, such as doing sex with boy friend (infidel), girl friend (infidel), visiting brothels, watching pornography, drinking wine, eating non halal food, joining disco dancing,enjoying infidel parties. Having committed such sins, all they need is to perform a perfectablution within twenty four hours to absolve themselves from the contrition.Then they can startall over again.Mind you, the ritual of ablution does not always end with prayer. In Sunaan Abu Dawud(1.1.0220) we read that one must perform ablution between two sexual intercourses. Here are afew more rewards Allah has reserved for those Muslims who value the extraordinary purgatory power of Islamic ablution.When you gurgle during ablution, all sins go out of your mouth…(Sunaan Nasai, 1.104)For performing perfect ablution there will be white blaze on your forehead and white blaze onyour feet…(Sahih Muslim, 2.0480, 0481)Allah obliterates sins for performing a thorough ablution, walking to the mosque, and waiting for the next prayer…(Sahih Muslim, 2.0485)Ablution removes the sins of the face, mouth, and the nostrils…(Sahih Muslim, 4.1812)If you do perfect ablution, your faces, hands, and feet will be brighter on the day of resurrection…(Sahih Muslim, 2.0479, 0481)And here are Allah’s punishments for not doing a standard ablution:
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