<b>Guidance from the Hadith:</b><br> 1) Purity includes both physical purification by ablution (Wudū) and bathing (Ghusl); and moral purification, like freedom from polytheism, doubts, spite, and rancor.<br> 2) Half of faith is to attain both outward physical purification and inward moral purification through removing tangible impurities and getting rid of vices and different types of polytheism, religious innovations, and sins.<br> The other half is possessing virtues, such as noble manners and good deeds.<br> <br> <b>Benefit:</b><br> As regards Al-Nawawi’s statement: “The chapter also contains the Hadith reported by ‘Amr ibn ‘Abasah (may Allah be pleased with him) cited above in the latter part of the chapter on hope. It is a great Hadith indeed, which includes lots of good things,”<br> the Hadith has been previously cited with the number 438, and the part of it that focuses on the merit of ablution says: “When a person begins ablution and rinses his mouth and nose, the sins committed by his face, mouth, and nostrils are washed out. Then if he washes his wrist...” to the end of the Hadith.