Bathing Before Hajj: Separating Sunnah From Common Misconceptions
Preferred Instances of Ritual Bathing: Ghusl After Deceased Care and Before Ihram
Summary
Sh. Ali Mashhour continues his discussion on ritual bathing (ghusl) in Islam, focusing on the preferred instances when bathing is encouraged. He explains the sixth and seventh preferred occasions: bathing after participating in the ritual washing of a deceased Muslim, and bathing before entering the state of ihram for Hajj or Umrah. Sh. Ali Mashhour addresses common misconceptions about Umrah practices, such as the fabricated practice of praying two rakahs after donning ihram, and clarifies that bathing is permissible while in ihram using non-perfumed soap. He emphasizes that many misconceptions arise from the convergence of large numbers of people during Hajj and Umrah and the rarity of these pilgrimages in people's lifetimes.
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Alhamdulillah. Continuing where we left off yesterday with the author in listing the various instances and occasions in which it is very or highly encouraged that a person bathed. And we're speaking about bathing that is alul ritualistic bathing that is a an act of worship. So the author mentions five types of which are obligatory and he mentions eight which are preferred. Preferred. Now notice the wording here preferred. That is a very general statement. Some of these preferred instances are almost obligatory or some scholars have considered them obligatory and others less so. However, in the general category of preferred, the author mentions the sixth and seventh. He says,.
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Men whom men whom Amen. Inshallah.
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The sixth instance in which it is preferred that a person bathe is after bathing or participating in the bathing of a deceased person. bathing a body. After this, it is the sunnah to bathe. As the prophet sallallah.aii wasallam says, "Whoever bathes a deceased, then he is to bathe himself," meaning afterwards. And we mentioned previously the other part of this larger narration in the chapter. Who remembers another part of this narration? In the chapter of wudoo that the prophet sallall.aii wasallam encouraged that a person make wudoo after what?
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No, that's we're talking about carrying.
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Together. This is part of the same narration. So he says saiam whoever bathes a body then he is to bathe and whoever carries a body then he is to then he is to make woo. These are, as we've mentioned back there, both of these commands are understood by the vast majority of the scholarship of Islam as being encouraged. The seventh instance, and a person may say, well, what's the difference between this and bathing after burying a disbeliever? A disbeliever is not bathed. A disbeliever is not shrouded. disbeliever is not buried with the Muslim. A disbeliever doesn't even have to be buried in a burial ground, any plot of anywhere. However, that is for a person who just buries a disbeliever, not attends the burial, but actually physically does the burying, then they are to bathe. Here it is after bathing a deceased meaning a Muslim.
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The seventh instance in which it is preferred for a person to bathe is before a person engages his form. Right? Hisam form. Sometimes we confuseam for being the clothing that a person wears when they are in Haj and Omra. This is notam. It's referred to by people colloally asam. This is notam is a state of beating being. It's after a person passes through the on their way to make. Now they're in a state ofam, right? And has certain parameters that state of being. Now before a person passes through the the start point of omrah, before a person begins that and initiates that, it is the sunnah to bathe. To bathe, clip the nails, clip the hair. if the person is in Hajj then then not but if the person is going for Omrah then yes clip the hair clip the nails put on perfume even in very copious amounts as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam did right and then he would put on his there's another thing that if you go to I'm sure many of us here have seen it happen. If you've been to orra, you'll notice that people also do something after they put onam. Does anyone know what I'm speaking about? After they finish putting onam, they do something. They pray this and this isn't we'll get to this in the chapters of Hajj and Omrah but this is something that you will have a very hard time believing she Ali when he says this to you right now if you've been to Omrah if Not except for the sheer amount of people that will be practicing this. If you go to Omrah, the sheer amount of people that you will see practicing this, it will be inconceivable to you that this is actually not a sunnah of the prophet sallall.aii. And that is praying two after they call it they even have a name for it. They call it has no origins in the Quran and Sunnah anywhere. There is no such thing as you might even go to andra and the instructor that's with you the group leader might even tell you to make right. However, upon not even deep inspection, but upon very slight inspection, you will find that there is no such thing, nor is there any such thing in the the most that has been mentioned is that's it. That's not specific to that's any time. So there is no such thing as sunnah. However, there is bathing before and that is a sunnah of the prophet sallall.aii wasallam and this is due to the narration of zabit that he witnessed the prophet sallall.aii Wasam took his clothing off in preparing himself for initiating his manic and then he bathed. This narration is in the eighth and final instance in which it is preferred that a person bathe is bathing for the occasion of entering Mecca. Even if a person has what is it is not prohibited to bathe if you are in. And this is another mistake that you will find very common if you go to Omra. Many people are under the impression that it is impermissible to bathe when you are in. This is not true at all. Actually, it is good to bathe. The only thing is is that a person doesn't use you know soaps that have perfume in them. and there's a lot of myths actually for Omrah. And I believe that one of the reasons there's so many misconceptions in Haj and Omrah is because of how many people converge to make Hajin Omra and you know things spread by people seeing each other do them. Another reason is because Haj and Omrah is a rarity. People go to Haj and Omrah. they usually just go once in their life, right? So, a lot of times people that go, they will make mistakes, right? They'll make mistakes. They'll see other people doing things. And so, there's a lot of incorrect things that happen in for instance, having anything on for men that has stitching in it. We've heard of this before, right? Say, "Hey, that's that's ABC's of correct. There's no problem with stitching." Now, a person's listening to this right now is saying, "Seh Ali needs to go home and take a nap before he comes back and tells us these things." But we will get back to this when we get to the chapters of inshallah and the chapters of and we'll research them deeply. But that's the purpose of this session, right? If I just tell you everything that you already know, then what are we doing here, right? So so the last thing is making for entering Mecca. This is whether a person is in anything. The mere entering of Mecca warrants bathing as a ritual. It It's separate from being in. It's not necessarily connected to it. for.
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Mecca. And.
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Here we have a narration on the authority Omar who was known amongst his students that anytime he would go to Mecca, he would always spend the night before entering Mecca. If he arrived at night, he would always spend the night in the on the outskirts of Mecca. And when he when the morning would come, he would bathe and then enter Mecca in daytime. He would not enter Mecca at night. And he would mention that he saw the prophet sallall.aii wasallam doing this that this is something that he learned from the prophet sallall.aii wasallam. This narration has been collected by both bkari and Muslim.
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