47 - Some characteristics of sound human nature

عَنْ عَائِشَةَ رضي الله عنها، قَالَتْ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ :«عَشْرٌ مِنَ الْفِطْرَةِقَصُّ الشَّارِبِ، وَإِعْفَاءُ اللِّحْيَةِ، وَالسِّوَاكُ، وَاسْتِنْشَاقُ الْمَاءِ، وَقَصُّ الْأَظْفَارِ، وَغَسْلُ الْبَرَاجِمِ، وَنَتْفُ الْإِبِطِ، وَحَلْقُ الْعَانَةِ، وَانْتِقَاصُ الْمَاءِ». قَالَ مُصْعَبٌ: وَنَسِيتُ الْعَاشِرَةَ إِلَّا أَنْ تَكُونَ الْمَضْمَضَةَ

‘Āʼishah narrated that God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said:

1. Ten practices are [aspects of] sound human nature: 

2. trimming one’s moustache, 

3. leaving one’s beard, 

4. brushing teeth, 

5. inhaling water, 

6. clipping nails, 

7. washing finger joints, 

8. plucking armpit hair, 

9. shaving pubic hair 

10. And reducing water. 

11. Muṣab said: ‘I have forgotten the tenth, but perhaps it is rinsing one’s mouth’.

Related Quranic Verses

God loves those who turn to Him in repentance, and He loves those who keep themselves pure.  

(2: 222)

Children of Adam, dress well when you attend any place of worship.

(7: 31)

 

Set your face steadily towards the true faith, turning away from all that is false, in accordance with the natural disposition which God has installed into man. Nothing can change God’s creation. Such is the ever-true faith; but most people do not know it.

(30: 30)

 

It is God who has moulded you into a comely shape

(40: 64)

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