What makes a bath actually count as ghusl?

Gentlemen, now gentlemen, more gentlemen. Alhamdulillah.

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Continuing in the chapters of bathing in the book of purification of Elwajis. We discussed yesterday morning the instances in which the instances or occasions that make bathing obligatory binding upon a person. Now some of these occasions necessitate bathing in order that another act of war should be accepted. And some of them necessitate bathing because of the time or occasion. However, bathing in its most simple terms really has only two pillars. We've mentioned this many times before that every act of worship has pillars. Every act of worship has pillars and bathing is no different. It has pillars and its pillars are two. Now before I mention this, I want to make something very clear. Where did this issue of conditions, pillars, obligations, sunen where did these categories come from? Well, originally you'll find their essence and the basis and foundations for these categories in the Quran and Sunnah. The prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam left instances throughout his sunnah that the scholars would understand and discern. However, learning and teaching has become very different than it was many many years ago. The way that the prophet sallallah.aii alaihi wasallam would teach the companions. The way that the companions would teach each other, teach their families, teach the next generation is they would see or hear something from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam and they would do it exactly as they saw it. The general masses this is their prerogative and that has not changed. the scholars in order to teach these very expansive acts of worship and to make these acts of worship digestible to other students. Especially when knowledge became very abstract. They divided things into these categories to make these things digestible. However, these categories they are not the basis of worship. The basis of worship is the basis of worship is whatever the messenger gives you, take it and whatever he denies you or prohibits you, steer clear of it. The basis of worship is we hear and we obey. It is not. Is this obligatory? Do I have to? if I don't do this, will I be dumped into hell or can I get away with not doing it? This is not the basis of worship. This is an important distinction because some things are a sunnah. meaning that the act of worship itself does not become invalid if this thing is failed to be done. However, if it were left off, it would be unanimously considered a bad thing. I'll give you an example. Let's say you came to today and I began the salah Allahbar and then you you didn't hear me recite you didn't hear me and then Allahbar and I go into then I stand up and complete salah and then the second you don't hear me recite I recite to myself would our prayer be valid valid or invalid. The only thing I didn't do was recite out loud. I recited to myself and you guys followed me. Would our prayer be valid or invalid? Be valid because raising the voice in recitation and is it a sunnah or an obligation of salah? It's a sunnah. It's not an obligation. What about if I only recited fat only only and went straight to no other surah? Would our salah be valid or invalid? Valid. Would we not all agree that that's unacceptable? We would, right? What makes it different if we do it together or if we do it alone? This is not a basis of adherence or lack of adherence. This is just a categorization so as to make it digestible in teaching. That's the only purpose of these these things. So the pillars of bathing are two pillars. The first pillar is intention. I have to have the intention of bathing. The second pillar is is to entirely wash all of the body. All of it. all of the skin, all of the body and all of that which has the ruling of being the outer part of the body. My the mouth, the nose is not part of the outer body. However, it has the ruling of being part of the outer body. Correct? If a person is fasting and they taste something, they put the water in their mouth for woo and spit it out. Did they break their fast? No. Why not? When did they break their fast? Once once they drink it, right? Once it goes down the throat. So the mouth and the nose le in the legislation of Islam are considered part of the outside of the body. And so when a person makes they have to have the intention of and second of all they have to completely run the water over all of the body including the mouth and nose. Now when we say intention does that mean I have to say it out loud? No. Intention takes place in the heart. There's no such thing as an intention that is spoken. I may inform of my intention, but me saying something that is not an intention. Now, why do we say this? Well, let's say for instance, a person is in a state of janaba. They go to sleep. They sleep through the night. They wake up the next morning to go to work. A lot of people, most people, and I certainly hope all people in Arizona in this heat, I would hope bathe before they go out, right? We take a shower to start our day. the luxuries of first world 21st century technology. Imagine we live kings. meat whenever you want. Eat whenever you want. If we have a meal without high quality meat in it, we consider that a snack. That's not even a meal. That's how well we're living. But part of that is water on tap. So, we take a shower every day. A person takes his morning routine shower. He forgot that he was in Janine, but he took the shower completely. Then he gets dressed and he goes out the door. Then he remembers that he was in janaba. Did he take makeul or not? He did not makeul. He is still in janaba. Why? Because he did not have the intention of He did the action, but he didn't have the intention. And we've mentioned this before. This is a rare instance, but it is plausible and it is possible and is actually more common than you would think. Merely taking a a bath or bathing is not enough. You have to have two pillars. The first pillar intention. The second pillar that water washes over the entirety of the body including the mouth and the nose. Now this also brings in other issues that is usually more pertinent to females in this era such as eyelashes and weaves and wigs and nail polish and so forth. We will discuss these issues tomorrow inshallah. for.

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