Quote from: dawngorgeous on October 07, 2011, 05:45:32 AM
Peace Emil,
Yes, if you have sex and a prayer is due, do you simply take a shower or bath and do wudu or do you also have to wash your hair before prayer. Basically, does cleansing yourself after sex for prayer include washing the hair?
Dawn.
5:6 O you who believe, if you rise to hold the contact prayer, then wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles; and if you have had intercourse, then you shall bathe. And if you are ill, or traveling, or you have excreted feces, or you have had sexual contact with the women, and you cannot not find water, then you shall select from the clean soil; you shall wipe your faces and your hands with it. God does not want to place any hardship on you, but He wants to cleanse you and to complete His blessings upon you that you may be thankful.First of all, cleansing yourself before prayer is more of a spiritual cleansing than a biological. If anyone proclaims it is only biological (s)he will run into alot of "what if" questions.
Allah asks us to perform the ritual of cleansing because he knows washing yourself with a material like water will in fact make you feel cleansed in both mind and soul. The spiritual aspect is evident in the verse above. Even if we do not have access to water, we are still commanded to cleanse ourselves using soil. If you were clean before, the risk of you becoming more biologically dirty after using soil (eventhough clean soil) are almost 100%. Hence, the spiritual cleansing is of more importance than biological.
Second, Allah tells us that it takes longer time to become spiritually ready for prayer if you just had sexual intercourse. This is true I believe. If I haven't had any for a long time but when I do, I can walk around with a silly smile on my face for days.......That is not the mentality I am supposed to have when entering a prayer, right? Therefore we are to "clean" ourselves from the lingering sensations of sex even deeper by taking a bath.
If you cannot achieve to get you spiritually ready for prayer by
not washing your hair, you should wash your hair. If the sex wasn't that good and you can easily forget about it, you should still meet the minimal requirements according to the Quran, taking a bath. What that implies is up to you to interpret.
BTW, if anyone disagrees with above statement, please let me know, I want to learn
BTW Quotesex for prayer
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