Page 323 - Wisdom and Sound Advice from the Torah

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Neither shall he leave the house of his God nor desecrate it be-
cause he has been dedicated by the anointing oil of his God...
He must not... desecrate My house. I am the Lord, Who
makes them holy. So Moses told this to Aaron and his sons
and to all the Israelites. (Leviticus, 21:12, 23-24)

I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into
them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offer-
ings and the incense. (Nehemiah, 13:9)

The priests went into the house of the Lord to purify it. They
brought out to the courtyard of the Lord's house everything
unclean that they found in the house of the Lord... (2 Chroni-
cles, 29:16)

On the seventh day wash your clothes and you will be clean.
Then you may come into the camp. (Numbers, 31:24)

After that, the priest must wash his clothes and bathe him-
self with water... (Numbers, 19:7)

The importance attached to bodily cleanliness:

The Prophet Muhammad [may God bless him and grant
him peace): "Surely, Islam is pure, therefore be pure, be-
cause he can never enter Paradise who is not pure." 25

The Messenger of God (may God bless him and grant him
peace) combed his hair and set it right with water, and he
then said, "Water is enough for a believer to smell pleas-
ant." 26

Ibn Shuba says in his book Tuhaf al-Uqul, "Cleanliness is
one of the virtues of the prophets." 27

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