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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Adab as-Salat: The Disciplines of the Prayer Second Revised Edition Chapter 6: Concerning The Ghusl And Its Cordial Disciplines “The people of knowledge” [ ahl-i ma'rifat ] say that the (state of) janābah (major ritual impurity) is getting out of the homeland of servitude and entering exile [ ghurbat ].

It is “declaring lordship” [ izhār-i rubūbiyyat ] and claiming I-ness and entering within the frame [ hudūd ] of the Patron [ mawlā ] and acquiring the quality of mastery [ siyādat ]. The ghusl (ritually washing the whole body) is a purification of this filth and a confession of the shortcoming. One of the religious personalities has enumerated one hundred and fifty states, in ten chapters, saying that the sālik should purify himself from them during his practicing the ghusl .

Most of them, or rather all of them, stem from might [' izzat ], power [ jabarūt ] and haughtiness of the soul, selfishness, and self-conceit.[^1] The writer says that the (state of) janābah is vanishing [ fanā' ] in nature and neglecting spirituality. It is the ultimate end of the complete sovereignty of animality and bestiality, and falling down to the lowest of the low. The ghusl is purging from this sin, turning away from the rule of nature, and attaining the divine authority and power.

This is brought about by cleansing the whole kingdom of the soul, which has vanished in nature and been afflicted with Satan's conceit. So, its cordial disciplines are that the traveler to Allah, at the time of ghusl , should not stop at the outer purification and washing the body, as it is a low superficial crust and belongs to this world.

His paying attention to the janābah of the inside of the heart and the secret of the spirit and purifying them from that impurity should be more important to him.

Therefore, he must avoid letting his bestial soul and animal concern [ sha'n ] overpower the human soul and the divine concerns [ shu'ūn - i rahmānī ], and to repent of Satanic impurity and arrogance, and to purify the inside of the spirit which is a divine blow breathed in him by “the Breath of the Compassionate” [ nafas-i rahmānī ], from Satanic tastes, which mean paying attention to other than Allah, being the root of the forbidden tree, so that he may deserve his father Adam's Paradise.