Must I repeat my ghusl if, after performing the ghusl, dead skin falls off and I did not repeat the washing?


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Must I repeat my ghusl if, after performing the ghusl, dead skin falls off and I did not repeat the washing?

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

Once a complete ghusl has been performed, you are in a state of purity. Suppose dried skin falls off thereafter, regardless of where you do not need to re-wash that spot nor redo the ghusl. It is, however, recommended to re-wash that spot.

[Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat Maraqi al-Falah]

Once one removes the state of ritual impurity through the ghusl, that same ritual impurity does not return.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch

Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch is a teacher of Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he then completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences. He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib. In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.