Ghusl
Definition
Ghusl is the ritual bath that purifies the entire body from major ritual impurity (janaba), which is incurred by marital relations, nocturnal emission, or the end of menstruation and postnatal bleeding. Al-Ghazali presents ghusl as one of the most vivid physical symbols in Islamic worship: the complete immersion or complete washing of every part of the body mirrors the total renewal that the believer seeks after states that, even when lawful, carry a kind of heaviness that must be lifted before standing before Allah. The purity that results is the condition for prayer, Quran recitation, and entering the mosque.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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