Part II: Bath (Ghusul)
Q.
How to clean one’s body from the hukmi
najaasat, i.e. hadath
akbar and janaabat?
A. The
body can be cleaned of hukmi
najaasat by taking ghusul.
Q.
What is ghusul ?
A. Ghusul
means taking bath; but there is a particular way of taking bath described by sharee’at (Islamic law).
Q.
What is the way of taking a ghusul
?
A. The
way of taking ghusul is this:
First wash the hands up to the wrists. Then wash the private parts and the
uncleanness or haqeeqi najaasat
from the body. Then do wuduu’.
Then pour water over the body three times, gargle and put water into the
nostrils.
Q.
How many things are fard
in ghusul ?
A. Three
things are fard in ghusul:
