Cleanliness in ISLAM

• What is Cleanliness?

Cleanliness is the state of being clean and free from germs or dirt.

• Importance of Cleanliness

Maintaining cleanliness is the important part of living a healthy life and cleanliness improves your personality internally or externally.It gives rise to your personality.

• Types of Cleanliness

There are 2 types of cleanliness which are 1: Physical Cleanliness 2: Spiritual Cleanliness 

Physical Cleanliness: 

                                     To make yourself externally neat and clean by wearing clean clothes and maintaining your body clean physically by taking bath.

some steps for physical cleanliness are:

1: Wash your hands when came from outside.

2: Take bath regularly with a fresh water.

3: Keep your teeth clean because it maintains your health.

4: Wear the neat clothes.

5: Wash your hands and mouth before and after eating meal.

Spiritual Cleanliness

                                   Spiritual Cleanliness is to keep your heart and mind neat and clean by positive thoughts and it is possible when you take everything positively and try to think positive about everything you see. Some tips for spiritual cleanliness are:

1: Try to do some physical exercise regularly.

2: Recite the Holy Quran Daily.

3: Everyday offer the prayer 5 times a day.

4: Try to get up early in the morning.

5: Go for morning walk daily.  

• How do Muslims get Clean?

Muslims get clean by taking bath regularly and doing a Wazoo before every prayers in a day and their belief is to present themselves neat and clean in front of ALLAH.

• Cleanliness in Islam

Islam is a religion which orders its followers for both physical and spiritual cleanliness. The cleanliness of the heart and the cleanliness of the body should come together in a Muslim.

Islam ordered its followers to keep the environment clean, keep the nails clipped, remove hair from the armpit and even to maintain dental neatness through the use of Miswaak. (Surah Baqarah: Ayat 222)

According to a Hadith, prayers will not be accepted without ablution. But it is really true that ablution is an important thing to do not only before saying prayers; ablution must be performed before numerous other acts of worship including optional prayers, touching the script of the Holy Quran and performing the rites of pilgrimage (Hajj). It is important for every Muslim to know the method of ablution (Wazoou).


If there is no water available to make Wazoo or bath or although there is water available, but it is not possible to use, one can perform Tayyamum with a clean soil, sand, lime and stone.

Hadith about the cleanliness 

The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said:

"Purification or clealiness is the the hailf of faith"