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Ghusl after burial washing

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When you wash a dead body, does one have to put Tohara, the washing of full body complete with hair before prayers? If we have to perform full Ghusul, how can we pray our fardh prayers because we are being given condolences at the place of washing till evening, and we can't go home until evening in order to wash... Confused???


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Ghusl after burial washing

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah Maidah verse 6:

6 O ye who believe! When ye prepare for prayer wash your faces, and your hands (and arms) to the elbows, rub your heads (with water), and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If ye are in a state of ceremonial impurity bathe your whole body. But if ye are ill or on a journey or one of you cometh from offices of nature or ye have been in contact with women (sexual intercourse) and ye find no water then take for yourselves clean sand or earth and rub therewith your faces and hands. Allah doth not wish to place you in a difficulty but to make you clean and to complete His favor to you that ye may be grateful.

 

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah Baqarah verse 222:

222 They ask thee concerning women's courses. Say: ‘They are a hurt and a pollution; so keep away from women in their courses and do not approach them until they are clean. But when they have purified themselves ye may approach them in any manner time or place ordained for you by Allah. For Allah loves those who turn to Him constantly and He loves those who keep themselves pure and clean.’

 

The acts which make a ‘ghusl’ or a full bath obligatory for purification are:

  1. sexual intercourse
  2. full sexual release from one’s private parts
  3. menstruation (normal and post-childbirth for women).

 

The mere bathing of a dead body does not invalidate or effect one’s state of purification in any way, and neither of the four major schools of thought hold it obligatory or necessary for one who has bathed a dead body to purify oneself with a ‘ghusl’.

 

If one is not in the state of major sexual impurity (janaba), and one happens to bathe a dead body, there is absolutely no need for one to perform the ‘ghusl’.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan


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