What makes ritual bathing obligatory in Islam?

Alhamdulillah we finished a pretty sizeable portion of the chapters of fiqh. And most chap most books of fiqh are structured in the way that this book is. Just happened to choose this book from a number of possible choices because of its concise abridged formula and that it mentions the evidences, right? So, it'll mention the author will mention the issue, the topic, the ruling, and then the evidence. It's most clearest, most authentic evidence, which is what we need. This is what we need to learn how to worship Allah Subhana Wa Ta'ala. Now, we finished the chapters regarding an-najasah. We finished the chapters regarding the various types of vessels, the various types of water, the various types of things that purify, and we have finished the chapters regarding wudu, and even the monolithic wiping over the socks. And so, now the author goes into the other remaining types of purification. Purification with the water is two types, wudu and ghusl, bathing. Now, he's mentioned in wudu, we finished that. Now, we're going to go into the chapter regarding al-ghusl, bathing. And first, what we're going to start with is what constitutes bathing. What what state of being must a person bathe in order to get out of, right? And so, there are a few things that obligate bathing. And bathing for the believer, and wudu for the believer, is one of the most prominent hallmarks of a Muslim. As a matter of fact, bathing from janabah is a hallmark of all legislations that come from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Every religion that has its roots in divine revelation, Christianity, Judaism, there is the obligation of bathing from janabah. To the point that the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam says in one of the wordings of the narration in Sahih Muslim, we know the narration of Omar, a man came while we were sitting with the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, shadidu sawad al sha'ar, shadidu bayad al thiyab. He had very black hair and very white the narration of Jibril. Well, when he asked him about al Islam, akhbirni an al Islam, in the wording of Sahih Muslim, he said,.

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In other wordings, he said more than that. He said, is that you establish prayer and that you bathe from janabah. And so he mentioned bathing from al janabah as being part of the hallmarks of what differentiate a Muslim from a non-Muslim. So bathing is part of the sha'a'ir of Islam. We prepare ourselves for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in a number of ways. And one of those ways is bathing. We prepare ourselves for Jumu'. We prepare ourselves for after death. We prepare ourselves before death. What was one of the last things that the prophet sal Allah alayhi wasallam did before he died? He bathed. Alayhi salat wasallam. What's the first thing we do to our brother or our sister's body as soon as they pass away? We bathe them. Correct? We bathe for Jumu'. We bathe for Eid. We bathe after you know, from al-janabah. This is part of our part of the ways that we glorify Allah subhana wa ta'ala is that we bathe. And so, it's very important that we perfect this great worship of bathing. So, what are the states of being that demand a person bathe? The scholars the fuqaha, they would refer to this as mujibat al-ghusl. Mujibat al-ghusl. Mujibat jam' mujiba.

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Hadha ta'nif li-ism fa'il al-wujub. Ya'ni alladhi yujibu al-ghusl. Ahwal idha kana fiha al-insan aw ashya idha dhaharat aw halla waqtuh fa-innahu yajibu alayhi wujuban an yaghtasila. An yaghtasila wa hadha min abrazi sha'airi din Allah subhana wa ta'ala. So, what are the things that necessitate that a person bathe? The author here, he mentions five. Five things in which five instances in which it is obligatory for a person to bathe. Now, I want before we get into these five things, I want to mention something and that is that just because it is obligatory doesn't mean that other acts of worship are necessarily built upon that obligation. So, for instance, he's going to mention Jumu'. That Jumu' is a time that is obligatory upon the believer to bathe. Why? Because the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, "Ghusl al-Jumu' wajib." we can't change his words. He said, "Bathing for Jumu' is obligatory." That's the narration. A person may say, "Well, how can we how can we harmonize that with the opinion of the majority of the fuqaha including the companions including Umar ibn al-Khattab and Uthman ibn Affan radiyallahu anhum that Jumu' is valid for someone who has not bathed?" We say, "Jumu''s validity the salah of Jumu' is not its validity is not built upon a person bathing. But that doesn't mean meaning that one of the conditions of Jumu' is that a person bathe." No. But that doesn't mean that it's not obligatory cuz that's what the prophet Sallallahu alaihi wasallam said. And we will get into that inshallah.

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Al-janabah. Or a person who is junub. And Allah mentions al-janabah in the Quran. He says Way akulu ta'ala. Wa in kuntum junuban fa taharu. And so al-janabah is a state of impurity. It's a major hadath. Remember the word we used hadath for a person who needs wudu. That's minor hadath. How do we know it's minor? It is minor hadath because a person need not do the full bathing in order to to to relieve it. A person must make wudu. This is major hadath. Major hadath means that a person, no matter how much they wash or they cannot be in a state of purity until they bathe completely. He says, "The first is the release of sperm or the release of sexual secretions that only come about by way of sexual climax. This is al-janabah. Now, for men, the meaning is very clear. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam says in Sahih Muslim that water is only necessitated by water. What does he mean by that? Because in the Arabic language, the sperm, the male sperm or the male semen is referred to as water in the Arabic language. a man's water, meaning a man's sperm. He says that water is only obligated by water, meaning the water of ghusl becomes obligatory with the water of a man's water. Now, a man or a woman, they both have what is referred to as water or sexual secretions that are released at climax. And the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wasallam mentioned as much when he was asked by one of the female companions in the narration of Salamah, as we'll get to. He was asked if a person has a dream of sexual activity and then they wake up, do they have to make ghusl? And he said, "If the person finds that they have secreted that water." And this is for men and women, because he responded to women and men. But it is very different for men than it is for women. And we will get into the descriptions of a many tomorrow, inshallah, and finish this first part of al-janabah of.

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