What must I do concerning the prayers that I performed with the intention of purity through an ordinary cleansing bath for hygiene, and without ablution, which continued for a long period exceeding two or three years?
If you intended to perform ablution and washed its parts in order during the , and did not commit anything that nullifies it thereafter, then this suffices for ablution. However, if you did not wash the parts of ablution in order, the ghusl does not suffice for ablution, because order in ablution is an obligation according to the Hanbalis and Shafi'is.
Some jurists hold that order is not an obligation, and in this case, the ghusl is valid if you intended ablution within it and did not commit anything that nullifies it thereafter.
However, if the ghusl was obligatory and you intended to remove ritual impurity, then your ghusl is valid and suffices for ablution, and your prayer is valid and you are not required to repeat it.
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