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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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