Ritual purity

In the terminology of the jurists, tahara (purity) is the lifting of the ritual impurity (hadath) and the removal of impurity (najas) by water or by dry ablution (tayammum). ¹

The hadith presents it in a great faith-related form: "Purity is half of faith," reported by Muslim (223). In the version of al-Tirmidhi it is "ablution is half of faith," and in the version of Mu'awiya ibn Sallam in Ibn Majah, "perfecting ablution is half of faith." ¹

In the same hadith it comes together with the balance of praise, the light of prayer, the proof of charity, the radiance of patience, and the argument of the Qur'an. In his commentary Ibn Rajab explains that it is a balance with which the servant weighs his deeds on the Day of Resurrection. ²