I always feel dirty n i hardly ever feel clean enough to pray.
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Answer:
Cleanliness extreme
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.
Your Question: wat
does islam say about cleanliness?
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 2 Surah
Baqarah verse 222 (part):
….For Allah loves
those who turn to Him constantly and He loves those who keep themselves pure
and clean.
Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 296 (part) Narrated by Banu Sulaym
I heard Allah's Messenger (saws) saying: “….
and cleanliness is half of the faith.’
The deen or ‘way of life’ called Al-Islam emphasizes and
absolutely encourages the believers to keep themselves physically pure and
clean at all times; so much so that Allah Subhanah Declares that He loves those
believers who keep themselves pure and clean, and the Messenger of Allah (saws)
declared that cleanliness is half of faith!
Not only does Islam guide and command its followers to
become and remain spiritually clean from spiritual impurities like polytheism,
disbelief, hypocrisy, etc.; but Islam guides and commands its believers to
strive to also be and remain physically pure and clean.
Your Question: how
much do i have to do to stay clean
Beloved sister, having said that Islam guides its
followers to be physically clean and pure does not at all mean that one goes to
the extremes in his religion, and becomes obsessive and compulsive in regards
to any matter in the deen….but rather Islam guides that one always take the
medium and beautiful way and strive to maintain a balance between two
extremes….one extreme is that of the obsessive and compulsive nature, and the
other extreme of being absolutely careless and negligent of ones cleanliness
and purity!
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 4 Surah
Nisaa verse 171 (part):
171 ……do not go to extremes
in your religion.
If one has to the best of one’s ability taken enough
measures to keep oneself pure and clean, then after that constantly fear that
one is dirty for no reason, or one is not physically pure enough to pray, or to
constantly fear about germs and getting contamination for no valid reason,
etc….that then would definitely be going towards one of the two extremes….something
which is absolutely discouraged in Islam.
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
Wister