Article 6 (Becoming a Member of a Community)

I was read an article entitles “Ritual Purification” at www.wikipedia.org claim that ritual purification is a feature of many religions. This ritual shows that every religion have their own belief in their life. This ritual is to remove uncleanliness before to a particular of activity and especially to a worship of a deity. This ritual uncleanliness is not similar with ordinary physical impurity and every religions have their own special treatment. Most of these rituals are existed before the germ theory of disease, and assumed from the earliest known religious systems of the Ancient Near East.
Islamic ritual purification namely “wudhu’” is particularly centred on the preparation for prayer, and it is valid throughout the day unless on the occurrence of certain acts like sleep, unconsciousness, vomit, and other. Ritual purification takes the form of ablution, in a lesser form and greater form, depending on the circumstance. The greater form is obligatory by a woman after she cease menstruation, and is optionally used in other occasion like to Friday prayers. And also dry ablution (tayammum) involving clean sand is used when clean water is not available around or if suffering from disease which would be worsened by the use of water.
Whether the ritual purification of Hinduism is the bathing of the entire of body at the particular rivers considered holy known as “Ganga”. This ritual was performed before any festival , and also practiced after the death of someone to maintain purify. The Hindu purification ritual include “achamana”, the touching and sipping of pure water while reciting “mantras”, besides the using of “tilaka” on the forehead. Hinduism also has a special form of “puja” known as “abhisheka” prescribed by Agamic injunction. The act is to strength their religion and political monarchs as well as for other special blessing.

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Dayang Rozifairuz Bt Kiflee