Question
Reference number: 313375 | Purity | Sept. 16, 2026
What is the ruling for someone who forgot to perform ghusl due to major ritual impurity and wishes to pray?
Answer
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. To proceed:
Performing ablution alone is not sufficient to remove major ritual impurity. Rather, one must perform ghusl with water before prayer whenever this is possible, because purification from major ritual impurity is a condition for the validity of prayer.
If a person performed the prayer without having performed ghusl because he had forgotten, he must perform ghusl and then repeat that prayer. He bears no sin for having forgotten, God willing.
And Allah knows best.
