Ghusl
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Is there a narrated supplication to be recited when performing ghusl?
Does showering break one's fast?
Is what the questioner does, repeatedly and excessively washing the parts of ritual impurity (janabah), considered correct or an extravagance that takes a long time?
Is it permissible for a mother to pray after her private parts have been touched by a midwife for examination, without performing ghusl?
What is the ruling on the trace I find after waking up from sleep, and I do not know whether it is semen or madhy (pre-seminal fluid)? And is ghusl (ritual bathing) obligatory because of it? And what is your advice to Muslim expatriates regarding matters of prayer, ritual purity, and shaking hands with non-mahram women?
When is purity from menstruation considered achieved if red blood continues for four days, then is followed by a brown discharge and a white discharge with a brown spot, or if there is dryness followed by a very small brown spot?
What is your advice to a married woman who suffers from severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (waswas) regarding wudu (ablution) and ghusl (ritual bath), which takes her a long time, and these obsessions have caused her to be hospitalized?
Is it permissible to perform ghusl without washing the head, given the headaches the questioner suffers if she washes her head daily?
How should one perform I'tikaf in the mosque during the last ten days of Ramadan if their work ends at 2:00 PM, and is permanent residency in the mosque obligatory?
How does a woman purify herself from major ritual impurity (janabah) while she is menstruating? And does this lift the state of major ritual impurity, leaving only menstruation, or not?
Is the fluid discharged during sleep considered semen, regardless of whether it was discharged discontinuously due to an attempt to prevent it or if it was naturally discharged discontinuously?
What must someone afflicted with hyperhidrosis do, especially if they do not feel the water of ablution on their hands and doubt its reaching the skin or under the nails due to their illness or residues of soap and shampoo?
Is it permissible for someone who suffers from chapped lips and their discoloration to white upon contact with water, which causes difficulty in performing ablution, to perform tayammum?
Is it permissible for a menstruating woman to supplicate during menstruation? And what is the correct way to do so?
Do the spouses incur sin if the wife thought she had purified herself, so she prayed and her husband had intercourse with her, then she thought she saw blood so she did not pray Fajr, then she bathed and prayed Dhuhr, and is expiation obligatory in this case?
What are the types of ghusl (ritual bath) and how are they performed, and is the ghusl for Jumu’ah (Friday prayer) like the ghusl for the two Eid prayers, for cooling, and for janabah (major ritual impurity)? Which of them necessitates wudu’ (ablution) for prayer afterward, and does leaving the washing of the feet until the end of the ghusl mean that the wudu’ was not completed at its beginning?
Is it permissible for the one who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and spends much time in ablution (wudu'), ritual bathing (ghusl), and forming intentions (niyyah), to perform tayammum (dry ablution) in order to catch the Fajr prayer if only fifteen minutes remain before its time expires? And does the ruling regarding the uncertainty of urine drops exiting also apply to prostatic fluid (madhiy) that may exit without feeling it?
What should I do about the continuous bleeding after menstruation for a month, and my inability to distinguish between menstrual blood and istihadah (non-menstrual bleeding), given that I suffer from hypothyroidism?
How can one distinguish between semen (mani), which necessitates ghusl, and wadī, in the event that thick, viscous fluid is discharged frequently?
Is it obligatory to repeat the ghusl and the prayer of entering Islam after repentance from masturbation if Satan whispers that the prayer and ghusl did not occur?
What is the ruling on performing ghusl and wudu with the intention of making prayer permissible, without the intention of fulfilling an obligatory act, and what is the opinion of the majority of scholars on this?
When is a woman, divorced once, permitted to marry someone other than her divorcer? Is it a condition for marriage that three complete menstrual cycles have passed, or is it sufficient for two cycles to have passed and the third to have begun? Is it permissible to propose to her during her waiting period (iddah)?
Is continuity (al-Mawalah) a condition for ghusl, such that if a person remembers after some time that they did not wash a small part of their body, is it sufficient for them to wash only that part, or must they repeat the entire ghusl? And does residual adhesive from wound bandages prevent water from reaching the skin and necessitate repeating the ghusl, even if water has already passed over the area?
Is it permissible for a woman who suffers from menorrhagia and irregular menstruation to pray if her menstrual period exceeds 10 or 15 days?