CLEANLINESS - THE FIRST LAW OF HEALTH

Cleanliness now days have become one of the most important word which is discussing all over the world due to the epidemic viral infection (Corona Virus) but as everyone is already discussing and providing information about this virus and the sudden spread of this virus in almost all countries whether we are talking about superpowers, developed countries or developing countries. Moreover, we can not even differentiate the age of infected people, neither white not black, there is no differentiation of culture or even religion. There is only one thing that we can only count the effected people and give them the best possible treatment but what if we have no treatment!

Yes, this is a new virus and the world have no treatment to cure but our religion has that power since the beginning that all those preventive measures which have announced for the prevention of this disease are already defined by our beautiful religion Islam. We are the most blessed people who opened our eyes in the religion who said that Cleanliness is our half EMAAN. We offer prayers five times and Every time when we stood for the prayers, we have to clean ourselves by Wazuh. It is our daily routine to keep ourselves neat and clean. Here is one of the most beautiful ayah of Quran in Surah Al- Maidah (Verse no. 6) Translation:

“O you who have believed, when you rise to [offer] prayer,  wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and (wash) your feet to the ankles. And if you are in a state of Janabah (ceremonial impurity), then purify yourselves (bathe your whole body). But if you are ill or on a journey or one of you comes from the place of relieving himself or you have contacted women and do not find water, then seek clean earth and wipe over your faces and hands with it. Allah does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you and complete His favor upon you that you may be grateful.”

Purity should be our habit it’s not about how others can effected by this but if we can not keep ourselves clean we will not feel comfortable and fresh because when we take bath and keep ourselves clean then we can do our things more positively and not being dull and dirty because cleanliness give a person internal freshness and calm and make more positive for their work and to fulfill daily routine. Washing hands are the easiest way to avoid a lot of diseases it’s just take 5-10seconds to wash but unfortunately we avoid these little things which actually can create a major difference in health problems.

Self hygiene should not be an option but it should be a habit. From the last 3-4 weeks we are just sharing how to keep ourselves clean and how to get rid of this virus. But we are not thinking that these activities should be the part of our lives and we are not only avoiding in terms of hygiene but also we were not following our religion properly because if we followed then we should not be in that panic situations which we specially as a Muslim country facing from the last 20 days, as our schools are closed, colleges, universities are closed, public sitting areas are in danger, people are worried about there health as well as for their children’s health and education as well. People who have an illness and suffering from fever, flu, cough are also suffering from stress because every single person is giving advice without studying about anything. It’s our responsibility to make ourselves clean and then keep our surrounding clean. Only by doing efforts we can protect everyone and even our environment as well.

Cleanliness is not only about how we are looking clean or fresh physically but it is also about spiritual purity, an internal clean heart and soul. We can make ourselves physically clean by washing hands, bath, wearing neat and clean clothes and keep our environment our house, area, city cleaned and much more but for internal spiritual purity, we have to follow what Islam teaches us and the way for the perfect life is to follow the real path of Islam. If we genuinely follow the real roadway of Islam and make our life goals according to it we can not even become physically strong but we will feel internal happiness which is the actual purity, the purity of heart, the cleanliness of mind, the hygiene of tongue, the sweetness of love.

“Make cleanliness a habit not an option”