The Holy Prophet (saw) has said:
"There are five matters that are within a sound nature. They are cutting of 'hairs of maturity', circumcision, trimming the mustache, removing underarm hairs and clipping nails."
[Islam also specifies the best times to clip the nails and the safest legnths for the nails which prevents bacteria fron being carried underthem which spreads to the food and cause diseases.
There is also a particular method or order that is deemed the healthiest for cutting nails. The best days for cutting hair and nails are also not left out of the advice of our Holy Prophets and Imams, these days are the ones that carry the greatest blessings, which in essence means are the best for our health.]
Health and protechtion against infectuous diseases are botained thorugh the application of these healthy habits.
In any case, Islam has decreed cleanness, because it involves the prosperity and the development of general health, and contributes in maintaining good physical soundness.
The developmed countries, along with the international health organizations, strive for publicicizing the general health among the world's population.
They also aim towards guarding man from irregularity and aberrance. Bantan, The English says:
"Diligent preservations in the legislative purity of the Islamic religion will dismiss sinning and quit defects. All of the criminals that I have seen in the jails were dirty in appearance and reality."
We have left details out of this post because Inshallah we will get into those in a future post.
Taken from the book "The educational system in Islam
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