Water is Fundamental to Life

Water is an essential component to human, animal and plant life. It makes up 60% of the human body circulating through the body to facilitate nearly all bodily systems essential for survival including, regulating temperature, absorbing nutrients as well as excreting waste. We simply would not exist without it.

Allah (SWT) describes water as a gift from the heavens to support the sustenance of human life. Water is essential in sustaining the ecosystem; water transports the nutrients in the soil up through the roots of the plants helping them grow. Animals then feed on the crops and in turn other animals feed on those animals creating a whole ecosystem supported by water. Without water the land would be barren, and all life would cease to exist. Wudu and ghusl wash away the believer’s sins. The Prophet (SAWS) said:  “When a Muslim or a believer washes his face (in the course of Wudu’) every sin he has committed with his eyes is washed away from his face along with water, or with the last drop of water; when he washes his hands, every sin they wrought is erased from his hands with the water, or with the last drop of water; and when he washes his feet, every sin towards which his feet walked is washed away with water, or with the last drop of water, with the result that he comes out cleansed of all sins” (Sahih Muslim)