Purity In Islamic Religion

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Christian purity according to Shi'a doctrine (intercultural perspective). Purity/ dirty in Arabic language: Purity means to be free from dirt, it seems essentially used to describe the purity of women from menstruation ( ) then it became indicate to any other things which share qualities with menstruation as an ugly thing. The concept of dirt contains two aspects, ugly, and to be isolated ( ). According to many Arabic language resources( ) the words najis, qatheir, regs, danas, have a very close meaning, which it is dirt. While the words: taher, nazih, nazif, have a very close meaning, which it is pure. Both dirt and pure can describe the material and immaterial things, can say : pure body(material) and pure spirit (immaterial). Purity in Quran context:…show more content…
[Indeed Allâh conferred a great favour on the believers when He sent among them a Messenger (Muhammad) from among themselves, reciting unto them His Verses (the Qur’ân), and purifying them, and instructing them (in) the Book (the Qur’ân) and Al-Hikmah [the wisdom] . The concept of purity has a strong link with concept of tazkeya, tazkeya means kind of development, it depends on purity. purity is the first step in tazkeya process, without purity human can't develop in the path of god, it means free from dirt , so if human is dirty he can't move forward to the holiness, it is necessary to take the first step toward God, according to Islam, the way of development is the way to god, when human become more close to god he/she becomes more

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