The Baha'i Studies Listserv Dear Susan, >Baha'is perform ablutions before saying their obligatory prayers even >if they have just had a bath, but the more thorough going ghusl in >Islam is done after sexual relations or after a women's period. This >is because semen and menstrual blood render one ritually impure. The >Bab and later Baha'u'llah abolished this concept. What was the point of the concept in Islam, then? If ghusl was never actually necessary from a hygeine perspective what was the wisdom of it? Were those people ever ritually impure or not? I'd like to know how to square this with Islam being a revealed religion and religion being superstition if it doesn't go along with science. Regards, David
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