Bilal Assad – Every Muslim must know this
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A question has come to me asking about
the process of Rusul.
What is this term Rusul in Islam?
The definition of Rusul
is basically showering or bathing.
That's all it really is.
However,
we use the term Rusul in Islam to
refer to a specific process after a particular
activity or practice.
And there are 2 main activities and practices.
Number 1,
the,
when a person has
engaged in *,
if they're married,
or
a person has woken up, usually men have
this, they've woken up with a *,
or after a menstrual cycle has ended for
a woman.
Then you do a process called
rusl, which means showering or bathing,
before you will be allowed to
recommence
praying sadaat.
Rusl
has to have the right intention.
So when a person is going to
wash themselves in in a bathing,
process or showering,
they've got to have the intention of why
they're doing it.
Someone asked me if it's just merely showering,
but without the intention does that suffice?
According to the majority of scholars, no it
does not suffice and it is safer to
go with the intention. But the intention is
really nothing, It's merely an intention in the
heart, that you're going to wash yourself
in order to,
become,
spiritually,
clean,
in order to go back and pray your
salat and so on, other acts of worship
which otherwise you couldn't have done.
So for the men and women, it's the
same process,
or the same,
method
with slightly
differing views here and there, which I'm going
to mention. First of all, it suffices to
just let the if you're under the shower
for example, sprinkler, to let the water drop
all over your body from head down to
your toes. And that the water has to
reach every part of your body,
including the roots of your hair.
Once that has
is is done then your hustle is over.
I know some teenagers when I was a
teacher,
students asked me what can I do when
I am rushing to school and I've had
a * and then I can't have
a shower And then when it comes time
to prayer, they kind of hide or they
don't want to pray? And some of them
even pray without
having,
done their rusl from this state which is
called
another term called janaba.
So we had to rush to answer that
question and say listen, it's very easy. All
you have to do is just jump in
the shower, let the sprinkler go all over
your body,
one minute job and it's done.
So it's that simple for both men and
women.
Otherwise if a person has made a mistake
and gone out to school or work and
hasn't done their rusu, then they have to
make up their prayer of course in something
called Qada' but this cannot continue this way
and of course Allah pardons people for their
ignorance. Now I come to the sunnah way,
the recommended way that the prophet peace be
upon him taught us to do the rusul,
which will give you more hasanat
just for following
the way of the prophet peace be upon
him. Obviously to us, rusul is a form
of worship because we do it for the
acts of worship,
when we, pray and so on. The way
the prophet peace be upon him used to
do it, and I want you to imagine
with me in those days they used to
have a bucket and a little utensil through
which they took the water out and spilled
on themselves. So the way the prophet, peace
be upon him, used to do it, according
to authentic hadith of course, is that he
would,
crouch in his place and then he would
spill water and the first thing that the
sunnah says is to wash with your left
hand the private
areas, the private parts.
After you've washed the private parts with your
left hand, then to make wudu, say bismillah
and make udoo. Now some people might be
asking, hold on, can I say Bismillah when
I'm naked? Can I say Bismillah if I'm
in the toilet or bathroom? I say to
you, yes, you can say Bismillah, but it
is better to say Bismillah before you take
your clothes off or before you enter and
that would suffice inshaAllah. And if you don't
feel comfortable saying you don't have to say
Bismillah. The point is make wudur per normal.
The prophet peace be upon him is to
make wudur and leave his feet to the
end.
Why? Because of where he is standing and
where the water ends up spilling because there
will be dirty water around his feet and
he would leave it to the end. But
for us,
just under the shower, the sun has to
make wudu fully and then wash your head
along with your hair to the roots of
your scalp 3 times.
Now if you've got hair which you've tied
up especially with women because generally we know
that women have long hair and sometimes very
hard for them and they don't want to
untie it.
They probably have braids for example.
Then the scholars are agreed that,
she there's no evidence to say that she
has to unbraid her hair or untie her
hair. So long as the water gets,
covers her main scalp and covers the majority
of her scalp after Janaba, which is,
after *, then that is okay. And some
scholars said if it's after menstruals, the menstrual
cycle, she'll try her best to get the
water into the roots in the scalp, but
there is no real evidence to say,
that specifically. So both men and women to
try and get the water,
into the scalp. Soak the Let their hair
be soaked and the water get to the
majority of the scalp and that inshallah
will suffice. After that, to wash the right
side of your body 3 times and then
the left side of your body 3 times
and leave your feet to the end. Now
as I said, the reason the feet were
left to the end was because in the
olden times they would be sitting or standing,
crouching in one place, so the prophet peace
would find him to lift his feet to
the end in order to wash off all
the, residual and the water that had spilt
down. But for us, I think you understand
for those of you who have showers and
sprinklers,
just having the water drop on you is
enough. Now last question, do you have to
make Wudu,
in Rusl, or does Rusl,
suffice and cover your wudu as well? Is
it a package or, altogether, or do you
have to do them separate? The correct view,
brothers and sisters, is, and the safest one,
is to also make wudu.
So make the intention for wudu in your
heart, and then the intention for wudu while
you're in the shower, and Insha'Allah you can
pray,
straight after it. I hope that answers your
question. Wasalaam Alaikum Warahmatullah.