Three
Ahadis about Miswak
1. Whenever the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
would enter his blessed home, He would use the Miswāk first.
(Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, pp.
152, vol. 1, Hadīš 152)
2. Whenever the Exalted Prophet صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم
would wake up from his sleep, he would use the Miswāk.
(Sunan Abū Dāwūd, pp.
54, Hadīš 57)
3. Make use of Miswāk necessarily
because it cleans your mouth and pleases Allāĥ عَزَّوَجَلَّ.
(Musnad Imām Aḥmad,
pp. 438, vol. 2, Hadīš 5869)
Cure
for Blisters in the Mouth
Physicians have stated,
"Sometimes blisters develop in the mouth due to warmth or acidity of the
stomach and result in spread of particular type of germs in the mouth. To cure
this infection, chew a fresh Miswāk and circulate the saliva thus formed in
your mouth for a few minutes. By doing this, several patients have been
cured."
Harmful
Effects of Toothbrush
According to research, 80% of
illnesses are caused due to dirty teeth or poor stomach. Sometimes the teeth
are not cleaned properly and therefore many germs grow in the gums. These germs
spread up to the stomach and cause different infections. Remember! The
tooth-brush is not an alternative to the Miswāk. Experts have concluded that:
1. After the toothbrush has been used once,
germs settle on the brush and do not remove away even by washing the brush.
Instead they multiply in the brush.
2. The toothbrush destroys the natural
bright coating of the teeth.
3. Use of tooth brush dislocate gums
gradually thus causing gaps in between the gums and the teeth, making it easy
for the food particles to stuck in the cavities. These particles rot and germs
grow there. As a result, infections of eyesight in addition to other diseases
take place. Eyesight goes weak and sometimes culminates into blindness.
Do
You Know How to Use Miswāk?
You may think that I have been using
the Miswāk for several years but my teeth and stomach are still disturbed.
My simple Islamic brothers! Guilty
is yours and not that of Miswāk. To my (writer of this book) approximation,
there may be one among millions who performs Miswāk according to its
guidelines. Most of us just rub the Miswāk haphazardly on our teeth while
performing Wuḍū. It may be said that we performs "a custom of Miswāk"
and not the "Sunnaĥ of Miswāk".
Fourteen
Madanī Pearls
1. Thickness of Miswāk should be equal
to the little finger.
2. Miswāk should not be longer than a
hand span otherwise Satan will sit on it.
3. The bristles of the Miswāk should be
soft. Hard bristles will cause a gap between the gums and teeth.
4. If Miswāk is fresh then its good;
otherwise soak it in a glass of water until it becomes soft.
5. Cut the bristles everyday. The
bristles are effective only when they contain bitterness.
6. Rub the Miswāk over the width of
your teeth.
7. Use the Miswāk three times.
8. Wash it each time.
9. Hold the Miswāk in your right hand
with your little finger under the Miswāk, the middle three fingers gripping it
and the thumb towards the bristle end of Miswāk.
10. First clean the top right row of the
teeth then top left row. Then clean the bottom right row and then the bottom
left row of the teeth.
11. There is a risk of enlargement of
the spleen of a person who uses Miswāk while laying on bed/ground.
12. To perform Miswāk while holding in
fist, there is a risk of piles disease.
13. Miswāk is preceding Sunnaĥ for Wuḍū
but if one has fouling breath, using Miswāk is Sunnat-e-Muakkadaĥ.
(Fatāwā Raḍawiyyah
(Jad īd), pp. 223, vol. 1)
14. Don't throw away the used bristles
or used Miswāk. Instead, place it at a safer place e.g. bury under the ground or
sink into the sea etc. as it is sacred, being tool for acting upon a Sunnaĥ.
(Baĥār-e-Sharī'at, pp.
294, vol. 1, Dur-re-Mukhtār-o-Rad-dul-Muḥtār, pp. 250, vol. 1)
Benefits
of Washing of Hands
In Wuḍū, the hands are washed first.
Let us see benefits of this act. Hands touch/hold a lot of things and different
chemicals and germs get stuck with hands. If hands are not washed whole of the
day, hands may suffer skin infections e.g. pimples on hand, skin itching,
eczema, change in skin colour etc. When we wash hands, rays emitting from
fingers produce field which trigger our internal electromagnetic system, a part
of which approaches our hands and causes beautification of the hands.
Benefits
of Rinsing the Mouth
First of all hands are washed in
Wuḍū. Thus hands become clear from germs; otherwise these germs would have
entered our mouth during mouth rinsing and would have reached stomach thereby
causing several infections. A lot of hazardous germs accompanied with air and
the constituents of food stuck in our mouth and on teeth via saliva. Hence
rinsing of mouth and doing Miswāk in Wuḍū clean the mouth thoroughly. If mouth
is not cleaned, following diseases may break out.
1. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
(AIDS) – one of its initial symptoms include the swelling of the mouth.
2. Tearing of the periphery of mouth
3. Moniliasis of the mouth and lips
4. Rotting and blistering of mouth
If the person is not in fasting, it
is Sunnaĥ to gargle the throat. One who gargles regularly will not suffer from
tonsillitis and he will be saved from several types of throat infections
including throat cancer.
Benefits
of Sniffing Water into the Nose
The lungs need air, free from germs,
smoke and dust, having about 80% of humidity and a temperature slightly greater
than 90°F. To provide this quality of air, Allāĥ عَزَّوَجَلَّ
has bestowed the bounty of nose. To humidify the air, nose produces about
one-fourth gallon of moisture. Hairs inside the nose act as dust catchers.
There is a microscopic scrubber that has invisible bristles. These bristles
kill the germs coming with the air. In addition, these bristles also perform a
protective feature called Lysozyme. With this, nose protects eyes from
infection. اَلْحَمْدُلِلّٰہِعَزَّوَجَلَّ,
one who performs Wuḍū rinses his nose with water and thus this important organ
(nose) get serviced. The electric properties of water fortify the ability of
bristles and thus a Muslim is saved from several complex diseases of nose by
virtue of Wuḍū. The rinsing of nose is very beneficial for the patients of
persisting flu and having wounds in nose.
