GHUSUL...back then 2010

IT has long since been a subject of interest of mine with regards to this aspect.

I am fascinated regarding interpretation over this aspect - Ultimately God knows best and may He guide us to the truth and grant us the understanding needed to accept it.


i remember i askled my friend Bims on how she observed just normal ablution - given that she too like me was prone to changing her hairstyles and unlike me she used weavons - ( these weavons are temporarily atached to the hair in some instancves covering the whole head) - the issue at hand being that with various hairstyles - contact with water is not really a yes yes in these instances.

she advised that in particular to weave-on she just left a bit of her scalp free at the back and touched water with that part;

hmmmm - with regards to myself - i and weaveon dont mix - not that i dont like it but that i cannot reconcile ablution - the part that requires me to wipe my head with water and a hairstyle that essestially covers all my head -

i asked other ladies but they were not keen to answer me.

if i had this issue with ablution then the greater issue of ghusul will be more apparent -

as a woman - ghusul of incumbent on me after menstruation, after sexual contact -

i remember growing up and the labourous instructions given to us at religious studies - start with washing your privates - then with intention - then pour water on yourself from head to toe - making sure the water reaches every part of your body - then by washing the right side of your body - three times - do not touch your privates( something to that effect) then wash the left side of your body three times - all the time making sure that this is done in silence -

too complicated - i am sure at certain times of my growing up depending on whoch religious book i read this practice was different when i tried to follow it - it was change after change - well until at least i started to look at the Quran itself -

As far as my knowledge goes - God correct/forgive me if i am wrong - the requirements regarding ghusul - is in relation to having a bath. thats it - it does not give step by step instructions - as is seen with ablution - but just says have a bathe after sexual contact. See 5:6 and 4:43 and 2:222

so these countless changing requirements (which depends on the religious book that you may be reading and also largly which sub-denomination of faith you follow) were from hadiths.

anyhow to cut the long story short - with regards to the bathing - my opinion and feeling is that this includes bathing - immersion of water from head to toe -