 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Welcome to Ahqab SOS, the show that discusses the Islamic duties and practices by Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Saadiq Shirazi. I'm your host, Mohsin Shah, and joining me, like always, is Sheikh Ali Ma'ash. As-salamu alaykum, sheikhna. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh Let us continue our discussion that we were having on ghusl. Sheikhna, there is more than one type of way to perform ghusl, is there not? Yes, Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem. Wa alaykum wa rahmatullahi ar-Rabbi al-Alamin wa sallallahu ala Muhammadin Wa alaykum wa alaykum wa alaykum. There are two types of ghusl. The one is the sequential ghusl, which is known as the tertibi, sequential. And the second type is the ghusl of immersion, by immersion. So, basically, diving inside a pond of water, for example, you have enough space and enough water to dive all your body inside the water. So these two types of ghusl, either the sequential or by diving, of course, by beginning the ghusl and with the niyah, as I've mentioned, with the intention for the cause of Allah swt, getting close to Allah by this ghusl, that will validate the ghusl. And if you follow the stages of ghusl, be it the tertibi or the ertimasi, you can come up with a pure body, inshallah, from the cause of janaab. Now, with regard to the sequential, by beginning of the ghusl by the niyah, as usual, because as I've mentioned, it's a worship, so you have to have the intention. First thing to begin with is to wash the head and the neck of the individual, and to make sure that that person washes the head, and make sure that the water reaches the skin, unlike the wudu wiping on the head, that you have just to wash, sorry, just to wipe on the hair of the head. But now for the ghusl, you have to make sure that the water reaches the skin of the body, the whole body. And because the hadith says with regard to the every hairline, there's a janaab, which means the skin has been affected as well by this act of janaab ejaculation. So you have to make sure that the water reaches the skin itself. So by washing the head, you make sure that you wash all the external parts which are visible by eyes, let's say the erts around the erts, and any visible part, again, like the wudu, the lips, after you close them together. And basically you don't have to wash inside the nose or inside the mouth. And with regard to the neck as well, you wash all the neck around. And then you move to the right section of the body, the right side of the body. And you wash the right side of the body, so the hand, the full arm, and the right section of the body, you wash it up all the way from the shoulder, all the way down to the toes of the tips, and even to the end. And you go back to the left section, again, you wash the left side of the body, the arms, the hands, and all section of the left side of the body as well from the shoulder all the way to the tips of the toes of the feet. And then of course you wash the private parts as well before that, so you make sure that also the water reaches that part. So, I mean, am I correct in thinking that washing the right side of the body, all I have to do is wash the front part, I don't need to wash the back, or do I have to wash the back part as well? Of course, when I said to wash from the shoulder all the way down to the toes of the tips, then it means that you have to wash the whole body back and front. It doesn't make a difference. Don't you think it's a bit difficult to wipe your back? You don't have to wipe. It's actually must have to wipe and rub your body while you're doing the hustle. You can just apply the shower on your body and you just stand and just watch the process of the hustle without even rubbing anywhere. As long as the water reaches the skin, that's fine. So you can be in the front of the shower, have the front side and then on the back of your body, the water runs through and it will purify the body. So you don't have to actually rub or wipe. It's must have. It's a lot easier then to use a shower to do your hustle and you just stand in front of the shower and put the relevant part of your body forward and wiping is not necessary. So therefore, it's probably the most easiest way. But for someone who doesn't have a shower, how would they do it? Is it just going to be pouring water nonstop for themselves? Yes, they can pour water with a small cup or anything else. And this is how it was, I think, in the time of the prophet and his family, in the old times. They didn't have running water like us today, no taps. It was well water, bucket water and so forth. So I think in that time, they used to use some kind of buckets to wash, to do the hustle and so forth. So they used to pour water on their head and then do the hustle. And they consumed less water than today's world. You see, I mentioned this with regard to the wudu, that the hustle is almost three kilograms. I mentioned this in the last three weeks. Exactly. So this is the son of the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, that he used to do with 750 grams of water and almost three kilograms of water for the hustle. But today's world, we see people just let the water to go, running water for maybe half an hour to do the hustle sometimes. So the sunnah is to follow the prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, in this way. And of course, with regard to the hustle itself as a purifying process for the one that he needs to consider, many issues, inshallah, will come one by one with regard to the hustle ahkam, that if there's an obstacle of these particles on the body, what if I, for example, just washed my head and neck and went out, can actually, is it sequential, like the wudu, continuous? As a time frame to it as well. Exactly, yeah. Shaykhana, what about the tarti? Do I have to do the head left and right? Can do the right left, then the head, or head left and right? You should follow the sequence again. You start with the head and the neck, and then you go to the right section of the body, you do it, and then the left section of the body. Following the sequence is mandatory. You have to follow this way. But what I spoke about was the timing of the gap. Can I leave the gap? Yes, you can leave the gap. You can wash your head and neck, and you go out of the bathroom, you have a rest. Let's say somebody knocks the door, you open the door, and then you come back, and then you do the right side of the body. You wash it, and then you do the left, and you complete the hustle. So the time-gapping is not mandatory, that you have to preserve the time gap between each part of the hustle. So you can actually let off. You go and have a coffee, or watch TV, and then come back and finish the hustle. But as I've said, it's better for the one who goes inside the bathroom to finish off the hustle straight away, and without consuming much water. Again, it's against the Prophet Sunnah, as I've mentioned, and basically not to waste that much of water and time as well, because time and water wastage at the same time. And stick with the way of the Shari'ah, the Sunnah, as prescribed. Shari'ah, you mentioned the method of Tartibi Hussal. What about the Ertemasi Hussal? How is that done? What's the method? Now, the Hussal of Ertemasi, or the diving immersion way of the Hussal, is for the one, again, to do the Niyah that I want to do Hussal, Ertemasi. And they can just dive inside a pond, or the seaside, even, or swimming pool, or anywhere else that there's enough water available for the one to go inside and to cover all his body inside the water. So when he does the Niyah, and he goes inside, he must make sure that all the body is inside. There's no part of the body outside the water, which I was not actually washed. So all in one go, the body should be washed by one dive inside the water. And that will be achieving the Hussal of Ertemasi, which is a lot, lot less time than the Hussal of Tartibi, which takes more time a bit, because it's just one dive and you come out. So I might take only less than 10 seconds on it. When you say dive, do I actually have to dive in, or can I just walk in until the water is probably about to make maniya, dakanda come up? Is that enough? Well, it's just that you have to go inside the water by one go. You do the Niyah, and you stay inside the water for a few seconds to achieve that. Fully immersing yourself forward. And getting that, the Hussal done, and then you come out straight away. And you've done the Hussal very straightforward, easy for those who don't really want to, you know, stand under the shower. And some people have that kind of doubts, or is it done the left side, the right side? Did I do the right side? So, Shekhna, when we go to the bathroom, we normally, you know, we have no clothes on, and we can perform the Hussal quite easy. However, if we're near a river or by the ocean, we're wearing shorts, or some of us might be fully covered, wearing a surf outfit, can we do Hussal then? I mean, if what we're wearing is not waterproof, the water can go through it and touch our skin. Does that count as Hussal? Is that okay? Or do we have to actually take all your clothes off? As I've said, the main aim of the Hussal is to make sure that the water reaches the skin. So, if the water reaches the skin through this fabric that you're wearing, that trunk or whatever you're wearing for, the swimming, and it reaches the skin, that's fine. You've done the Hussal, all the body was touched by water in that immersion and in that diving. Then you have achieved the Hussal of Janaba, and you're not pure. What some people do, for example, they might move a bit their trunk or the shorts, just move it around, just to make sure that the water actually reached the internal parts of the body, and to make sure that the Hussal is done completely. Once I have performed Hussal, Tartibi Ultamasi, do I not have to perform with you if I need to pray Salah? What they got to the Hussal, which is one of the exceptions in the Sharia, that if you do Hussal of Janaba, be it Ultamasi or Tartibi, the Hussal of Janaba does not require for the one to do Wudu again. If you do the Hussal, that's it. You go straight for your prayers, you do the prayers, if it's Tawaf, you do the Tawaf, and so forth. The Hussal of Janaba replaces the Wudu itself. So you don't have to actually do Wudu again. But if somebody goes after the Hussal of Janaba, he goes to the toilet, and he relieves himself, then of course he needs a new Wudu, because that will, although the Hussal remains the Hussal, nothing breaks the Hussal except another intercourse or another ejaculation. But for the Wudu, relieving the one's self by urine and so forth will make it wajib for him, for the prayers to do the Wudu. So what you're saying is that those acts which invalidate Wudu, if you do one of those, when you've done your wajib also of Janaba, you have to now re-perform the Wudu again. Yes, exactly, exactly, because how could you enter into the Salah as a obligatory worship and you haven't got the proper purity for that, because you've been into the laboratory and you've relieved yourself. So you have to make sure that you do the Wudu, the Hussal remains as Hussal, you're purified from the Hussal of Janaba, that's fine, but just for the purpose of the Salah, because you have relieved yourself in the bathroom, you have to go and do the Wudu and then go to the Salah. But the Hussal is done, that's it, you don't have to do the Hussal again. It's done and you're now purified from the Janaba. So Sheikhna, what does one do if parts of the body were not washed properly or water didn't reach those parts of the body when performing Hussal? Well, if part of the body was not washed and left, let's say even a finger was left and was not washed, the whole Hussal will be bottled and void. So for the one must make sure that when they do Hussal, they have to make sure that all the body is covered by water, either in the irtemasi by diving or by ertibi by the sequence that they've made the water to reach all parts of the body. Sheikhna, I've got a question come in there that was emailed and it's in regards to what do you do if you have obstacles that prevent water from reaching the body? So if I've got a plaster or paint or oil on my hands or on parts of my body, what happens to the Hussal then? Well, it is mandatory and wajib to remove any obstacles on the body because this Hussal is similar to the Wuduistahara as purity. So it shares some kind of conditions of the Wudu as well in terms of the obstacles. So you have to make sure that the body has no, let's say, paint that prevents the reach of water to the skin. There's no plasters, for example, no bandage, anything that would make obstacle, the reach of the water to the skin is all removed. It's mandatory. So you have to make sure there's nothing and you can do the Hussal after you've removed all these obstacles. Thank you, Sheikh. And also, what is the criteria of Hussal? Because, you know, we talked about before and the criteria of Wudu as in the water must be tahrir, the water must be mubah. Is it the same for Hussal or is there separate criteria? We mentioned the water must be tahrir and pure, not to be impure and nages again. With the Hussal, you have to make sure that the water you use is tahrir and pure. And the water should not be mixed with something else, like rose water or orange juice, for example, or lemonade, for example. You can't actually use these types of liquids and water to actually wash for the Hussal. Likewise, the water must be permissible and not usurped. You have to make sure that the water that you're using has been given the permission to be used or allowed to be used. Otherwise, the Hussal will be bottled again, like the Wudu, because they are all Ibadah at the end of the day, the worship, for the purpose of the worship. So you have to make sure that you achieve all these conditions so you can enter into the Ibadah and the worship with complete purity. However, there's a slight difference between the Hussal and the Wudu. With regard to the Hussal, you're not really wajib for you to wash from a specific direction. So you can actually wash from bottom to top, unlike the Wudu that has to be from top to bottom. So that is the difference between the Hussal and the Wudu here. So you can wash in any direction, that's fine. There's no issue with it. And also with regard to the time-gapping and the sequence, you can actually leave, as I mentioned in the beginning of the episode, that you can actually leave a bit of time. So you wash the head and the neck and then you wait. And then you come back and you wash the right side and then you wash the left side and so forth. So there's only two differences between the Hussal and Wudu and these two issues that you can actually wash from any direction. And also you can leave gap between each active for the Hussal, the head and the body and so forth. And then you can actually continue and leave and finish the Hussal at the end in purity, inshallah. As-Sentum-e-Shaykhana, thank you for the elaborate explanation and thank you to all of you who are joining us for today's discussion. If you have any questions that you'd like to send in, please send them to the contact details provided and inshallah, Shaykhana and I will be able to answer them for you. Until next time, if you'll buy a river, why not jump in and do a ghusl? As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh.