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Question 1 ... if we dont use soap after call of nature our hands give smell and acccording to Quran we just get clean with water and we can pray namaz how is this possible ??

Question 2... what is cermonial impurity ? i think sperm wet dream , intercourse RIGHT ALLAH Says u have to take bath after that but what if we dont find water can we get clean after cermonial impurity without water ?

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Wash hands with soap water

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Question 1 ... if we dont use soap after call of nature our hands give smell and acccording to Quran we just get clean with water and we can pray namaz how is this possible ??

Respected brother in Islam, Allah Subhanah has made the deen of Islam as easy to follow as possible. If the Lord had Commanded that every time one answers the call of nature one must wash their hands with soap and water, perhaps that would have been a burden which would have been difficult for the believers to follow at all times.

The Law does not state that one cannot wash one’s hands with soap or any other cleansing tool after one answers the call of nature; and if one has access to soap or any other cleansing tool, it would only be prudent for one to utilize it and thoroughly cleanse oneself.

The cleansing of one’s private parts (and hands) with water is the absolute minimum one is required to do after one has answered the call of nature.

Question 2... what is cermonial impurity ? i think sperm wet dream , intercourse RIGHT

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chatper 5 Surah Maidah verse 6 (part):

…..If ye are in a state of ceremonial impurity bathe your whole body.

The acts which enlist one to the state of ceremonial or major impurity and make the performance of ‘ghusl’ absolutely obligatory upon them before they can make themselves available for prayer are:

1. After a wet-dream.
2. When the male private organ so much as touches the female private organ.
3. After sexual intercourse.
4. After full sexual (semen) discharge.
5. At the end of the period of menstruation of the women.
6. After the end of the period of post-child birth menstruation of the women.

Your Question: ….ALLAH Says u have to take bath after that but what if we dont find water can we get clean after cermonial impurity without water ?

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chatper 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 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.

If one is in a state of ceremonial or major impurity, it is absolutely obligatory that one perform a full bath or ‘ghusl’ before one makes themselves available for prayer.

But there might come circumstances in one’s life where one is on a journey, or one is ill whereby the touching of water might harm their well-being, or one is at a place where one has absolutely no access to water…and one happens to be in the state of impurity and the time of prayer has approached….then instead of leaving one’s obligatory prayer, as a Mercy from their Lord and to make the observance of the deen easy for the believers, The Lord Most Merciful has guided the believers to simply rub their hands and face with clean sand or earth in their effort to cleanse oneself from their state of impurity. Then when one reaches a place where one has access to water, one may physically cleanse oneself to one’s hearts content.

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