{"id":6811,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/taking-bath-after-sexual-intimacy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:19","slug":"taking-bath-after-sexual-intimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/taking-bath-after-sexual-intimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Bath After Sexual Intimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Does a simply washing the  body purify an individual who has to obtain purification after having  sex or one has to follow a set of rules govering the ritual bath?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The <em>Shari&#8217;ah<\/em>  requires a Muslim to take bath after sexual intercourse. However, it  has not prescribed a set procedure. The related Qur&#8217;anic directive  states that the believers should wash their bodies thoroughly. Now every  one would act upon this directive according to the application they  deem appropriate and so did the Prophet (sws) whose example is the only  example that should be followed in religious matters. Muslims try to  follow his example in this regard which includes: <\/p>\n<div>a)performing the wudu (except for washing the feet) <\/div>\n<div>b)washing the body thoroughly <\/div>\n<div>The  Prophet (sws) applied available means to clean his body. We can also  use anything to help us wash the body (for example soups and shampoos  etc). Following is how the Prophet (sws) bathed after sexual intimacy:<\/div>\n<div>&#8216;A&#8217;ishah (rta) reports that when the Prophet (sws) would have the ceremonial bath after <em>janabah<\/em>,  he would first wash both hands. Then he would clean his genital area by  the left hand by pouring water on it by the right one. Then he would do  <em>wudu<\/em> the same way as <em>wudu<\/em> is done for the prayer. He  would then take some water and insert his fingers in his hair until the  water reached the skin. He would then pour three handfuls of water on  his head. Then he would drench all his body with water and then wash  both feet. ( Muslim, No: 316)<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-08<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6811\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a simply washing the  body purify an individual who has to obtain purification after having  sex or one has to follow a set of rules govering the ritual bath?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177],"tags":[1769,2396,1284,1289,1359],"class_list":["post-6811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamic-customs","tag-bath","tag-sexual-intercourse","tag-sexual-intimacy","tag-sexual-relations","tag-taharat"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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