PURITY OF BODY AND SOUL

41. Purity of Body and Soul ~ 125 ~ members do not defile their surroundings. This training he gives to others as well. Thus he is not satisfied until and unless he has succeeded in bringing into existence a clean atmosphere all around. For a common person cleanliness is only cleanliness. But for a believer, cleanliness, besides being simply cleanliness is also an act of worship, for he knows that God likes clean and pure persons. Furthermore, the faith of the believer is a guarantee that when he has cleaned his body his soul is likewise cleaned. That is why at the moment of washing himself clean, he utters these words in prayer: Oh God, purify my inner self along with my outer body. In this way, the earnest prayer makes his soul clean too, like his body.