Does a person who performs a recommended ritual bath without intending to remove the state of ritual impurity have the impurity removed or not?
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The Shaykh : Yes, yes, yes.
The questioner : May Allah forgive you. If a person intends a recommended ritual bath and washes his entire body with water without performing ablution and without intending to remove the state of ritual impurity, is the impurity removed from him?
The Shaykh : What I see is that the state of ritual impurity is not removed if he intends a recommended ritual bath; the impurity is not removed because he did not intend to remove it. It is like if one bathes after washing a dead body; it is recommended to bathe after washing the dead, but it does not suffice for the state of ritual impurity. And if it does not suffice for major ritual impurity if one is in a state of major ritual impurity, it does not suffice for ablution either. Rather, one must perform ablution. Just as the Friday bath, which is obligatory in our view, does not suffice for ablution, because the Friday bath is not for a state of ritual impurity but for purification, as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So it does not suffice for ablution. The only bath that suffices for ablution is the bath for major ritual impurity.
The questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah bless you. I heard one of the scholars say that it is not permissible to call non-Muslims to Islam in any language other than Arabic, and he cited the book *Al-Risalah* by Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) as evidence.
The questioner : May Allah forgive you. If a person intends a recommended ritual bath and washes his entire body with water without performing ablution and without intending to remove the state of ritual impurity, is the impurity removed from him?
The Shaykh : What I see is that the state of ritual impurity is not removed if he intends a recommended ritual bath; the impurity is not removed because he did not intend to remove it. It is like if one bathes after washing a dead body; it is recommended to bathe after washing the dead, but it does not suffice for the state of ritual impurity. And if it does not suffice for major ritual impurity if one is in a state of major ritual impurity, it does not suffice for ablution either. Rather, one must perform ablution. Just as the Friday bath, which is obligatory in our view, does not suffice for ablution, because the Friday bath is not for a state of ritual impurity but for purification, as the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
If you had purified yourselves for this day of yours
لو تطهرتم ليومكم هذاThe questioner : Your Eminence, may Allah bless you. I heard one of the scholars say that it is not permissible to call non-Muslims to Islam in any language other than Arabic, and he cited the book *Al-Risalah* by Imam al-Shafi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) as evidence.