Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Purity is Half of Faith
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Allah subhanho wa Taala says in the Quran, in Allah you are able
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Allah subhanaw taala says in Surah Al Baqarah, That Allah loves those
who stay very clean. Allah subhanho wa Taala loves those who
repent to Him, and He loves those who stay very clean and pure. Then
the Hadith that I related, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said that Allah is pure and elegant, and he loves pure purity,
beauty and elegance. Now, why did I start with this? I started with
this to speak about something extremely basic, something
extremely, extremely basic, but absolutely essential. And in one
sense, the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in another
narration, has actually called it half of faith. So that's why in
the hadith of Muslim, the professor Lawson said at the
Hooroo Chateauroux, Iman, that purity is half of faith. Why am I
speaking about this? I'm speaking about this, because that, although
it's something which I'm sure most Muslims, majority of Muslims, or
Muslims, know about and understand the significance of, but it's nice
to be reminded about how thorough this needs to be, or what kind of
completion and perfection and accomplishment we're looking for
in this regard. Because when we get settled in our lifestyle,
sometimes bad habits creep in. Sometimes, we're not doing
something fully even though conceptually, theoretically, we
understand that we should be doing something and we think we're doing
it. So it's nice to have a reminder about this, just to
really understand where we are in this regard. And Inshallah, the
benefit of this God willing, is that when you have a more pure
focus on ourselves, and we want to remain in a state of purity, then
inshallah everything else that we do also benefits in that regard,
because purity is very pervasive. And likewise, filth is very
pervasive. And if one dominates the other, then it depends on what
the dominant factor is. So I want to start off first with
the aspect that purity as you know, many of us can relate to
purity in different aspects, we'll be thinking about purity in terms
of, we need to be pure to pray, we need to be pure to touch a Quran,
for example, we need to be pure, even for tawaf. Now, these are
some of the main aspects, main worships of Islam, now to do tawaf
around the Kaaba, which is going around the Kaaba seven times,
praying, the normal ritual prayer, that is, you can understand that
that's an integral for all of these integrals and these
important aspects of worship, you've got something that is a key
to them, which is purity, they have to be done in purity. The
reason for it is that when we're praying, it's just not a
collection of certain acts. And it's not just a procedure, it's
something where we are also submitting to Allah, not just
externally, but also internally. And for that, there needs to be a
preparation, just like whenever you would go to visit somebody, or
try to honor somebody, then generally we'll cleanse ourselves
will perfume ourselves, put some fragrance on, and so on and so
forth, and try to look a lot more presentable. Likewise, when it
comes to God, and we're getting into that state of communion with
Allah subhanaw taala have intimate discourse with Allah subhanho wa
taala, or to show him our, our love when we're going around the
Kaaba seven times, then the whole idea is that we do it with purity.
So that's why you can understand from the how purity is so
essential. So in some cases, it's actually a requirement, it's
afforded. It's a short, it's a condition of the worship itself.
But in general, it's actually an integral part of our iman. So even
when you don't look at it, look at it as something you need for
prayer, or something that you need for tawaf, or something you need
to do to be able to teach the Quran, for example, it is actually
a lot more than that. It's actually essential to the Muslims
way of life, especially if you look at it in a much broader
sense, because when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said
purity is half of faith, what exactly did he mean by that? Did
he mean the will do the ablution that you do for your Salah and
your prayer? Is it that? Is that what he's speaking about that when
you do for your Tawa, for example, or is it something a lot broader
than that? It could be a lot more broader than that. So I'm going to
try to look at the different aspects of this. First and
foremost, when you look at purity in a general sense, purity also
relates to not just to worship and our personal state and self and
avoidance of filth, but it also relates to two other very
important things which are very integral to our faith. One is
purity relates
To our belief system, so our belief needing to be pure and not
adulterated, not corrupted. So a pure faith based on pure
understanding of the Quran and Sunnah. So the concept of
monotheism Tawheed that we have, and to have that very clear, any
kind of shake, and polytheism will be a form of impurity within that.
And that's why the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was
very particular about this aspect. Number two, another aspect of it
is the heart, the heart to being pure, though we cannot see the
heart. But we can definitely see expressions of the heart effects
of the heart on what the rest of our body does, what our thoughts
are. And that all comes from a corrupt heart or a sound heart is
Allah subhanho wa Taala says that, on that day, when nothing will be
of avail,
neither wealth, neither one are balloon Ilam. And at Allah because
we'll be bin Salim, except the one who comes with a sound heart, the
sound heart is one that is purified. Sound hard is not one
that is corrupted. It's not one that has hatred inside. And it's
not that it's not one that has jealousy, overcome it. It's not
one that has a lot of enmity inside it, a lot of anger in it. A
lot of false desires, have egotistical desires just to
fulfill whatever lowly desire a human has. But rather, the purity
of the heart means that a person is careful in their thought
process in they don't rush to judgments about other people, they
give benefit of the doubt to others. They're not always on the
negative. They're not always complaining, they're not always
suspicious. They're not always harboring enmity towards somebody
else. They don't always have Ranko in the heart and hatred towards
somebody. They're not constantly overcome by depression and grief,
because they have trust in Allah instead. They they're not miserly
in their heart, they don't keep thinking that they're going to,
they're going to, they're going to struggle if they give something in
charity or help somebody else with this is all to do with purity of
the heart. So now you can understand how when the Prophet
Muhammad peace be upon him, said at the Hulu chatroom, imagine that
purity is half of faith, how that becomes so, so crucial, and so
integral to the rest of our faith. So those were two aspects. One is
the belief aspect of how that needs to be pure. And the second
is the heart and the inner dimension, our general behavior
and character and how that needs to be pure. Now, I'm not going to
be speaking about it from that perspective. I'm speaking about it
from the third perspective, which is about the body being clean,
just general cleanliness and hygiene. And as I said, although
this is something which many of us observe to some degree, I just
want to try to really open it up so that if there's any
shortcomings in any of this, we can understand also to understand
some of the philosophy of Islam behind it. If I if I'm to quote
first, SHA William Allah, which is one of the greatest of the
scholars of the last 300 years in, in the Indian subcontinent, he was
known to be one of those scholars in our Islamic history in general,
to have written about the secrets behind the commands of Islam. So
why we do certain things, why we do different things, and he was
there to philosophize them to provide some kind of understanding
of why these things are done, why rules are the way they are. So
when it comes to purity, he says something very interesting. In his
herget, Allahu Akbar, which is his magnum opus, which is his this
wonderful work of his that deals with these aspects. He says that
there are many aspects of the faith if you look at our faith in
general Islam in general, he says that you can generally although
there are many facets and aspects of it many rulings, and many ideas
and within the faith, you can actually bring reduce everything
down, he says to four main concepts, four main concepts,
which is the harder if both sama and Adela right, which is
basically about chivalry, and justice, and submission, and
purity. So he actually makes purity out of one of the four
fundamental principles of Islam, of where all the commands and
rulings and everything to do with Islam can come down and be reduced
within one of these four categories. He makes one of them
to be Tahara impurity. And then he talks about, he speaks about
the purity, which means the purity of the outer self and the inner
self. And what he's talking about is that when a person is engrossed
in the, in the human desires in the animalistic desires, you can
say, because angels are free of fulfilling their self desires as
such, because they're constantly under the command of God. So
generally, we're speaking about a human being a human being is like
a hybrid between the state of an angel and the state of animals
because we are at the base of it. We are from the animal kingdom.
You know, we're human beings from the animal the highway
On notic, as we say, the conscious the rational being but the
rational animal, that's who we are at the end of the day. So
it's about keeping that balance while we're human beings and we
will have animal needs such like hunger, sexual desire and so on so
forth. But at the same time, there's a tempering of it with the
angelic quality of the Spirit, which means concepts of purity
concepts of worship to Allah of happiness, satisfaction with the
divine, and that is supposed to control the animalistic nature. He
reckons it seems like Imam Shaohua EULA seems to bring the hara into
the middle of this by saying that the Hara is that thing, which this
is what I get from reading his passage, he says that the hardest
seems to be or he indicates that the hara seems to be the thing
that will moderate between these two, so that a person doesn't go
too much towards that animalistic desire. For example, if a person
has been involved in some kind of
sexual communion, and they are then or they've had a * or
anything of that nature, they are in this defiled state as such,
from a ritual perspective, they are in a defiled state, in an
impure state, because in that state, you can't enter the masjid,
for example, the mosque, you can't do a number of different things.
You can't even recite the Quran. See, when you don't have to do,
you can still touch the Quran, you can't touch the Quran, but you can
actually reset at least recite it. But when you're in a full seminar,
the default state general but as they call it, then you can't even
read it with your tongue, because it seems like it is as if the
entire body is ritually impure. So that's why what he says is that
when a person has been involved in such a thing, or something has
overcome a person to make them seem eminently defiled, then there
is a sense of impurity, and that takes them away from the angelic
state towards that animalistic state, having a bath, bathing
oneself and ritually purifying oneself, brings one back into a
state of purity, and into that state of human equilibrium, and in
that state of Protection, and that makes a person closer to the
angels because it's a pure state, and the angels are pure, the
angels are known for their purity, that they do not become defiled.
That's why he mentioned that when a person is in an impure state, or
has impurity over them, they're more akin to a darkened state as
in as improved as in comparison to an illuminated state. The
illuminated state is that of the angels, whereas the darkened state
is that of the devils. And one very interesting thing here, which
he doesn't mention, but which from some other studies, because the
recently I did a course on magic, and gin and everything else. And
one of the things that was understood there is that generally
magic and these, these things of this nature, they effect people
who are in an impure state. In fact, what it mentions is that
people who want to do magic, they are then made to stay impure for
days on end, sometimes for 40 days, three months, four months,
that they're not allowed to even bathe. That's why recently, there
were a few individuals that I was informed about, who there was a
suspicion that, you know, they had some kind of influence on them of
magic, or gin, or whatever the case is. And one of the things
that they felt, or didn't feel like doing rather, is to have a
bath, that they were used to having bath very frequently,
washing up and keeping pure and clean. But now they just didn't
feel like having one. And the more a person stays in that state, the
more the effect of that works. Now, I'm not trying to promote the
whole idea that everything that is unusual, that happens is by magic,
because I know in many of our communities, if paracetamol
doesn't work, then it means that it's magic. And that's wrong.
Right? It doesn't have to be the case, it could be a psychiatric
problem, psychological problem, it could be some kind of mental
imbalance. And there's an absolute possibility of all of these
things. However, we don't deny the fact that there is magic, that's,
you know, that's a possibility. So, when a person is in a, in an
impure state, they're also vulnerable. They're also
vulnerable, and they can be influenced by the shaytaan a lot
more. You know, that's probably from a very ritual perspective. So
what we have then is,
when a person is in a pure state, that's why we're told to sleep on
purity, you'll hopefully see better dreams Inshallah, if you
want to avoid nightmares, for example, we're told to do that
number of things like this to try to stay on wudu as much as
possible. Now, what I want to clarify here is that
psychologically speaking, when a person is generally clean, even if
it's not a person of faith, you know, just a normal person, when
they're clean. They just feel much better. They've just had a nice
shower. They feel very, you know, the skin just feels much better.
That makes the mind feel better. Sometimes a person is feeling
very, very miserable.
All right, they go and have a shower. And they actually come out
and they feel happy about it. Purity does that anyway. So it has
that it has that psychological benefit. Purity has that
psychological benefit. But what we're saying is that you also has
a spiritual benefit, it also has a spiritual benefit, because it's so
fundamental to our faith. That is why
when it comes to people who run out of water, or scarcity of water
in countries where they don't have much water, for example, or for
example, the water just just stopped, you don't have water, it
got stopped in your entire area. And there's just a very small
amount of it, or whatever the case is, in Islam, we've got that when
you can't use water or when it's not available, then even then,
just to gain some kind of purity and psychologically, spiritually
prepare yourself for your prayer, then you do TM, which is the dry
ablution, which is to use the next best cleanser, which is to use the
soil
or dust, which is essentially you just hit your hands down both
palms down onto a stone stone or a rock or soil or whatever the case
is, the idea is not to get any soil on your hands. So even if
some soil does come in your hand, and you shake it off, and then you
wipe your face with it, and then you bang down again, you hit down,
strike the stone, again a marble or whatever it may be, and then
you you you pass them thoroughly over both of your your arms. So
it's just those two things. Now, that is to show that even when the
main purifier, which is water is not available, then you at least
do something secondary, so that there is still a ritual that is
taking place and the person feels that they are they are pure to a
certain degree. So in that regard, I just want to clarify a few
things. One is that generally speaking, when we're talking about
because we're not speaking about purity of the heart today or
purity of the belief where or doctrine, we actually just
speaking about purity of the body as such physically as such, there
are two levels of this one is what they call an adjuster hockey, and
one is what they call an adjuster hook me many of you may have come
across these terms, years ago when you know you're in mucked up or
something like that. But just to give you an understanding of this
one is physical filth, which is something that can generally be
seen that we're speaking about Uranus filth, according to Islam,
urine, blood, any kind of any form of intoxicant, like, like wine,
for example.
Any kind of emission, pass, all of this is considered to be filth,
it's considered to be filthy, physical filth, that is hochiki.
It's real, you can see it. Then on the other hand, what you have is
not just a hook me, hook me is a state of impurity. You can't see
any impurity, for example, somebody goes and relieves
themselves in the toilet and they and they wash up, you know,
meaning they've removed themselves and they've washed their private
parts. Now on their body, there is no filth, if you were to search
their body, there'd be no fill from their body, but they are
still considered to be impure. They cannot pray with that in that
state. Why? Because they are in a state of minor impurity, because
urination, passing wind, defecation, sleeping, all of this
breaks the state of legal or ritual purity. So a person becomes
impure in an impure state, even though there's no physical,
there's no physical impurity there. The way to remove that is
to do wudu, which mainly consists of washing the face, mouth, nose,
the arms, the feet, wiping the head, and all the other Sooners
that are included in that. Now, let's just say a person passes
wind and breaks their will do breaks the ablution, they
immediately enter into what we call Hadith, which means an impure
state it's a minor impure state, right? Because if you do will do
only ablution, you'll be fine again, now you're told that the
parts of the body you're washing or the face, the arms, the wiping
the head, and you're washing the feet, which has nothing to do from
where the wind was passed. That just shows that this is purely a
ritual practice, to get a person into the state. This is how Allah
wants us to do it. So that's what you call a minor ritual impurity,
Nigel said, hook me only in hokum and only legally is considered to
be an impurity whereas there's no physical impurity. Now there's a
major aspect of that which is when when a woman is in menstruation,
or when a man or woman is in a seminary default state which means
after sexual * or otherwise after a *, or
any form of * as such, so that is a major state now and
again, if a person has washed themselves after that just locally
and not not the entire body, they haven't had a listen
Yes, they may be pure outside, they may be absolutely no sign of
anything, but they are still in an impure state, they are still
considered to be ninjas Genova, which means that this is even
worse than not having although in the sense that a person can't even
read the Quran. With their tongues for example, they cannot even
enter the mercy the person without will do can enter the Masjid.
Though he can't pray or she can't pray but a with Jana but you can't
even enter the masjid or with hate only fast, which means
menstruation or postnatal bleeding, a person cannot enter.
So that's an adjusted hakomi. And that's an adjusted hotkey, right,
the legal state of impurity where there's nothing physical. And the
other one is where there is something physical. Now,
obviously, as you know, two picks mix a lot. And just in general,
throughout the day, we shouldn't have any filth on our body. And we
should also try to avoid being in any state of impurity. Now that
might be a bit more difficult, maybe easier not to have any filth
on the body. That because we generally wash up, we will
generally wash ourselves after relieving ourselves most Muslims
do that, right throughout the world, they wash themselves, they
don't just use the tissue. However, staying in a state of
purity, which means away from Jana button Hadith minor and major
ritual impurity, that's sometimes a bit more difficult. But for
those who really want to, they can actually stay with will do will do
all the time. Of course, when in menstruation, that will be very,
very difficult. Now, when it comes to
the real impurity, which is the physical impurity, a person is to
stay away from that as far as possible. However, let's just say
that you've got a bit of blood, which means about the size of a
five pence, five cents coin, five pence coin, and
you can't remove it because you're at work, and there's no way to
remove it, though, it's quite simple to remove that because you
can generally go into the toilets and do it, but sometimes from the
very body may be in a place where you can't go and start washing.
Right. So can you pray with that or not. So generally, they say
that any amount, which is to the amount of a DERA right now, what
didn't happen in those days was the size of the concave of your
palm, which means if you just keep your hand flat, if you could just
spread your hands flat like this, not like completely flat, but just
normally, the amount of water that would remain in your in the
concave in this in this kind of,
would you call it in dent, concave of your palm, that is what you
generally call a Durham size, which generally is about four
depends depending on the size of your palm between four to five
centimeters, or probably about 3.5 to five centimeter depending on
the size of your palm diameter 3.5 to five centimeters diameter, that
is basically how much is allowed. So if we say a five pence and coin
that generally is less than that. So if you can remove it, then it
would still be Makrooh. To pray, it's to be undesirable to pray
with this amount, as long as you've got will do, obviously. So
basically, you've got some blood, you've done well too, but you
can't remove that speck of blood. If you can't remove it, for
whatever reason, your Salah will still be valid, as long as it
doesn't get to more than the size of this study, you know, this four
to five centimeters diameter, once it gets to that amount, then you
must, once it gets beyond that you must if it's up to that amount,
it's still forgiven, it's still allowed, because the Sharia knows
that people don't always have access to water. Now this
generally happens is that if for example, your underwear,
somebody's underwear was was soiled, became soiled. If it's
less than this amount, then generally that that much would be
would be allowed. Meaning if you can't wash it, then you'd be able
to still pray you'd be able to still pray with it. If it goes
beyond that beyond the four to five and depending on your palm
then then you will have to you will have to wash it it becomes
necessary to wash after that. Now
just quickly to mention a few other aspects of this one is that
in physical filth, you have also two types one is the one you can
see after it's on your garment or clothing on your body and the
other one you cannot see. So for example, which is the one that you
want you can see is quite simple I mean defecation for example stool
or blood I mean Jerry that leaves the leaves a good spot. However
the ones that you cannot see maybe urine so you know there's urine on
your garment somewhere or you know that there may be you know, you
may have touched some wine or something like that, or the wine
is red so you probably see that but if it's urine for example, you
call that in Arabic lady Maria which means the something that
cannot be seen. So how do you wash that? So if you can see it and you
can see the spot, then in that case you have to wash it until
that spot goes on until you believe that the spots gone.
Right, yes, there are some exceptions in the case where it's
just a stubborn spot. And even after washing it 10 times, it just
doesn't go because there's discolored the fabric and the
fabric just became dyed with it. That's, there's a bit of an
exception in that kind of a case. But otherwise, you have to wash it
until and mostly it gets removed, and every effector is gone, you
know, the smell the color, everything. However, when it comes
to urine, you can't see it, you don't know if it's gone or not. So
in that case, what they tell you is wash that area three times and
wring it properly thoroughly each time. So you wash it, and you
wring it thoroughly. You wash it, you wring it thoroughly you wash
it, you wring it thoroughly. And of course, using any kind of
detergent these days helps a lot because that carries away the the
impurity as you as you have it. So that's the way now what about if
it's on, for example, a carpet or a bed, something that you can't
just take to the basin or the sink and wash, then in that case, the
best thing nowadays is to have one of those suction vacuums, water
suction vacuums, otherwise, with your hands, it's very difficult
because what you would have to do otherwise, is you pour water on
that surface and you scoop it all up and you dry it all up with as
much cloth as possible, then you do that at least three times. And
because you won't be able to tell that there's urine there, so you
can't see it. But you want to make sure that it's pure. So you have
to do that at least three times. The best way is to have one of
these suction things where you spray water on it once you suck it
Oh, you suck it up. First you spray water you suck it up, you
spray water, you suck it up again, use your spray water again, you
you evacuate. So if you do that three times, three four times,
then you know that it's all gone. And that's done with the least
effort especially if you've got children in the house young
children who are nappy training and so on. So that big, I think
one of these wet and dry vacs they become very useful commodities to
have. So that's the way to clean up. Those those kinds of things.
Many of you have said may have known these things, but this is
just just the refresh some people one thing that you have to avoid
in this case is to get to such an excess and such obsession that you
think it's not I get some really crazy questions from people with
OCD problems. And that you you can tell somebody's got an OCD problem
because they really read into it so much. And they are not giving
themselves the benefit of the doubt at all. And they they try to
pollute everything in the house. They think everything is polluted
and they get into a state of paranoia, and that is something
that needs to be avoided. This is all to make things easy for one
not to make it difficult and that is why
Allah subhanho wa Taala once said that way that you clean it up, you
follow the ritual of how to clean it up and then you consider
yourself to be to be clean. Allah subhanaw taala says in the Quran
warrensville La Mina sama Emerton, the hoorah Allah subhanho wa
taala, sent down sends down sent down from the heavens, pure water
pure the whole is pure and purifying. Water is amazing water
is, you can say has some great similar Toots parables or
parallels to the rule and the spirit of a human being. The
reason is that water is colorless, it is tasteless, and it is also
odorless. Now, I know that you can sometimes smell water, but the and
I know sometimes you can taste water, for example, I have a
massive problem with London what I can't have London water, because
it's just tastes awful. And I have to buy my water. But
water is generally odorless. It's tasteless, and it's colorless.
Likewise, the rule, and the spirit of a human is supposed to be all
of those things, something that very difficult for you to
identify. Water is sent down to cleanse the body. And thus,
anytime the body stays clean, the room stays clean. And from a
spiritual perspective, this is very important, which I discussed
earlier, when a person is clean and away pure from filth, and from
internal filth than the spirit is also healthy and pure. Otherwise,
when a person is in that state of impurity, you see if you see
somebody who never baits never have a bath, never combed their
hair never washes their hair. And you wonder how they can stay like
this. Because if you didn't have a bath for two days, or whatever the
case is, you would feel extremely uncomfortable. You'd have this
such discomfort you'd have such you'd be so unstable, you'd be
just just totally
not very comfortable at all. So how is it possible that a person
can become like that and be like that? It's because they're used to
that state. And that is not a good state for a person to be in. I
have seen different countries where there's different levels of
hygiene class some cultures are a lot more cleaner than others. For
example, you will see the poorest person in Turkey or Syria as
normal street pedaler he will
would be the person who's not making much money maybe just
getting by just scrounging a living, but you'll see that
they'll be very clean. And they'll be very tidy, though they may not
have the best and most elegant types of garments or clothing, but
they will actually be very clean. When you look at some other
cultures, it's not like that. Some cultures are very careful about
these things, we have to do it because it's our faith in
regardless of what culture you come from, or where you are, what
you are. And Hamdulillah we do live the British culture is
generally a very clean culture, you know, that it's encouraged
that you have a bath and so on and so forth. But as you know, the
Islamic teachings goes even beyond that, that you should not remain
in a seminary defiled state, and don't just cover things up with a
perfume. But you know, these kinds of things are very important from
a Sharia perspective and to get closer to Allah subhanho wa Taala
as well.
So, the Hara is, as Allah subhanaw taala speaks about in, in the
Quran, when he speaks about fasting for example, Allah says,
Now this although this is tying into purity of the heart and the
soul, right, so you know, Allah subhanaw taala tells us that we
must fast for this many days in Ramadan, 30 days and so on. He
says something very interesting afterwards, in In short, it is my
unit Allah Julio Jada Alikum, in homage, my unit, Allahu Leah
Giada, on a common heritage, Allah does not intend by this, to make
it difficult for you, Allah doesn't put all of these ritual
laws for you for to make it difficult for you and to be a
burden for you and to to give you these these kinds of difficult
practices. No wonder Can you read only Utah hero calm, he is doing
this to purify you. Because if a person gets control of their lowly
self, then they will remain free of general harmful addictions. And
other issues that generally come about in a person's life when they
lose the control of themselves. And they give themselves up to
vices and, and other things like that. So Allah says, but he wants
to purify you. So he's mentioning the wisdom behind these things.
So I'm going to mention one last point, which is the verse that I
read in the beginning from the Quran in surah baqarah. Allah
subhanho wa Taala says, Allah loves the well being those who
make Toba. Allah loves those who repent. And he loves those who
stay very clean, Mutata heron, first and foremost, to bring these
things together, which means to bring Tober and repentance
together with just physical purity. There's something very
interesting there. The Toba and the repentance is purity from
sins, and from the internal you can say spiritually malnourished,
and harmed state and thus a person becomes more spiritually healthy
by making Toba. So it's to remove the dirt from the heart because as
you know, the prophets Allah Some said that every sin that a person
commits creates a.on Their hearts a dauber. And repentance is what
removes that. So one is purity of the heart. Allah loves those who
stay pure inside, and Allah loves those who stay pure outside. Now
this verse was in particular, although it has a universal
bearing, in particular, it was revealed about the people of Cuba.
It was revealed about the people of Cuba, Cuba is a place outside
of Madina, Munawwara where the prices are set and went first from
Makkah. And the people there.
Allah subhanaw taala said that he loves these people who are Mutata,
Haiti. Now for those of you who understand a bit of Arabic, you
could have said pa hit him, Paul here means pure musataha comes
from Tata which is using additional letters to express a
more intense form of purity. So he loves those that like to stay
very, very pure. So what was the secret behind this praise of the
Prophet of Allah, about these people? Well, you see, in the
Arabian Peninsula, water was difficult to come by, because it
harsh climates, desert conditions, very difficult for to find
sufficient water that will be available for all of these things.
So
generally, people would use dried clumps of soil or clay to to
basically remove any remnants of impurity from their private parts
after relieving themselves. Basically, you can say the
precursor of tissue paper today, that's what they would use because
there's not enough water to go around.
Some people if they had water, they would use water, right? Water
is always superior to us because water completely removes something
and takes impurity away. Well, a tissue paper or anything else will
not be able to remove it because what you have to remember is that
our skin is porous. Our skin is not a non porous surface, like
marble or, or steel or something like that, which if you wipe
something away from that, you can pretty much be sure if you do it
correctly, that you would have wiped everything out without using
water because you can actually
literally drive all the data because of the absolutely smooth
surface without any kind of pause inside it. But if it's a porous
surface, like a stone, for example, not a glazed stone, but a
normal porous stone, or the skin or the clothing, you can't really
wipe impurity away from me because it will, parts of it will go into
the pause. So that's why water is a musical word in Arabic, which
means complete Eliminator, while stone or whatever is just a
miracle, which means it decreases it and takes away the most of it.
But you know, there'll be a small amount of which is allowed in
certain cases. And I mentioned that beer hammer mount that ties
into this. What it was about the people in Cuba is that they used
to insist on using clay and water. So these two use both. So today
equivalent would be to use tissue, paper, as well as water, so to get
a real thorough, thorough amount of purity. And that's why,
while this shouldn't become obsessive, and a person is sitting
there using buckets and buckets of water to cleanse themselves,
right. At the same time, a person mustn't just go into their stuff,
throw a bit of water on there, sprinkle a bit of water, and we'll
just walk out. That's not right either. So there needs to be a
small amount, a decent amount that a person knows is going to is
going to cleanse them. So that's what this verse is all about.
Allah loves those who do Toba and gain internal cleanliness, and
also this external cleanliness by using both of these things. And
the Hadith that I read was in Allah by human will you buy it,
which means that Allah is elegant, beautiful, and most excellent and
that's what he loves as well. And that's how he wants us to be. So I
pray to Allah that Allah gives us the ability to remove any
shortcomings in this regard to keep ourselves cleansed
thoroughly, and protect us from all the evil influences that are
out there and always remain in a state of illumination and purity
so that we can attract more of Allah's mercy and we can remain
more in the company of the angels as opposed to the company of the
shaytaan and the devils hence when we go into the toilet, what do we
read Allahumma inni our oath will be coming on hold if you will,
haha. If our lie seek your refuge from the male and female devils,
right because they like to stay in 30 places. So Allah, Allah help us
while he was gone and Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen