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In the The Mysteries of Purification (Kitab asrar al-tahara), the third of the forty books of the Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihyya 'ulum al-din), Abu Hamid al-Ghazali explains the fundamentals of the purification that are necessary in order to perform the five daily prayers. The book begins with an introduction to the general topic of purity. Al-Ghazali explains the hadith 'Purification is half of faith' and reminds readers that, for the earliest Muslims, inner purification was much more important than outer purification.In Chapter 1, he considers purification from impurities by asking what are the impurities that require purification and how should they be removed? Over the following chapters, al-Ghazali examines the lesser ablution (wudu'), the greater ablution (ghusl), and the 'dry ablution' (ablution without water, or tayammum). He discusses the etiquette of the bathhouse and outlines exactly how to clean the body of external things and natural growths; finally, he discusses the beard and practices related to it.Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (d. 1111) was a leading scholar, jurist, and theologian of the golden age of Islam, and he remains its truest advocate in modern times. As a teacher of both inward and outward faith, he recorded these practical teachings in his forty-book compendium of Islamic knowledge.https://ghazalichildren.org/books/the-mysteries-of-purification/

Islam --- Godsdienst --- Lichaamshygiëne --- Theologie --- Hadith --- Koran --- Reinheid