What is the meaning of cleanliness? And what is the benefit of cleanliness? Cleanliness simply means that removes all dirty materials. We know and understand that cleanliness play important role or contribute to good health.
Many people around the world recognize that cleanliness leads to protection and a long life and dirty living conditions can lead to the spread of diseases.
In our religion "Islam" invite us to be purify and cleanly in all time. Islam is a religion of cleanliness. Allah says " O children of Adam, take your adornment at every Masjid (mosque), and eat and drink, but do not waste: verily He does not love the wasteful." (7:31)
Cleanliness may be divided into two divisions:
1- Sensory cleanliness 2- Meaningful or spiritual cleanliness.
The first refer to the personal habits in several fields and in your daily life,
for example:
When you get up: you should wash your hands, face, and brush your teeth. In worship: purity is a condition for the prayer to be regarded valid, and prayer is an act of worship which a Muslim performs at least five times throughout his daily routine. In bath room: after you remove, release, excrete your wastes, you must clean and wash your sexual organs exactly. Also after sexual intercourse and highly encourage taking a bath before performing those types of worship which are manifest symbols of Islam. As well as when you eat: you wash your hands, teeth, before and after eating, Messenger of Islam, Muhammad said: "Food is blessed when one washes his hands before and after it." (Tirmidhi) It encourages that one keep his mouth and teeth clean. So Islam requires Muslim to clean his body, his clothes and the whole community.
While the second refer to the purify your manner toward the other people for example, people throw garbage and wastes into the streets which usually contaminate the earth, air and water supply.
A lot of people realize the importance of keeping clean, at homes, in public and in doctors' offices and hospitals. If hospitals or doctors' offices unclean or doctors didn’t wash before seeing patients or performing operations, this lead to diseases to spread quickly and frequently.
In addition, cleanliness plays a vital role in economic income generally. Many people around the world need to work in healthier and pure condition which leads to improve the economic income and improve your life style; moreover the healthier conditions lead to improve the level of the education. The emphasis of cleanliness should not only be left to parents at home but schools should advance this cause with more vigor and determination in a quest to ensure students develop a sense of cleanliness in their current as well as future undertakings. School classrooms and compounds should always be clean and well kempt. It is only by doing this that children can grow up into grown up people who hold cleanliness in high regard.
In contrast the dirty conditions or without cleanliness, a lot of diseases will spread, a lot of money will be consumed for recuperation which leads to fall down the economic income gradually.
Also cleanliness reduces the risk of diseases and infections. Most of the diseases a human being grapples with in his day to day life are avoidable and can easily be kept in check by observing basic hygiene measures. Diseases such as typhoid are linked to the consumption of dirty water. A wide range of skin infections can also be attributed to failure to follow basic sanitary procedures. It has also been discovered that diseases such as gingivitis which causes the inflammation of the human teeth gums is caused by poor mouth hygiene which includes failure to brush teeth. It therefore goes without saying that the only way to ensure that our lives are rid of germs and other disease causing organisms is to enhance high levels of cleanliness both at home and in our places of work.
Moreover cleanliness can be used as competitive advantages in the business world, for example: To attract customers, hotels, and restaurants must ensure that they maintain high levels of cleanliness.
Thus, individuals should be aware of the effect of dirt in the broader sense so as to ensure that their lives are underscored by high levels of cleanliness.
Finally it is clear the importance of cleanliness both to the human life and the environment cannot be overstated and we can see cleanliness is the first essential of health and Muslim is required to be pure morally and spiritually as well as physically.
