Hadith 8

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ –
‘In a Hadeeth of the atheist who asked Al-Sadiq-asws about issues. He said to him-asws, ‘Inform me about the Magians. Were they closer to the correctness in their religion or the Arabs were during the pre-Islamic period? ’
He-asws said: ‘The Arabs were closer to the upright religion than the Magians were, and that is because the Magians committed Kufr with all the Prophets-as’ – up to he-asws said: ‘And the Magians were such, they did not wash from the sexual impurity while the Arabs were washing, and the washings are from pure laws of the upright religion. And the Magians were not circumcising, and it is from the Sunnah of the Prophets-as, and the first one to have done that was Ibrahim-as, the Friend (of the Beneficent); and the Magians were not washing their dead nor enshrouding them, while the Arabs were doing that. And the Magians used to throw their dead in the desert, and stone coffins, while the Arabs were burying them in their graves, and like that is the Sunnah from the Rasools-as, and that the first one a grave was dug for is Adam-as, father-as of the mortals; and the Magians were going to the mothers (for forbidden acts) and marrying the sisters and the daughters, while that Arabs forbade that. And the Magians denied Bayt Al-Maqdis and named it as the ‘House of Satan-la’, while the Arabs were loving it and revering it, and were saying, ‘A House of our Lord-azwj’; and the Arabs, in all of the things, were closer to the upright religion that the Magians’. Up to he said, ‘So what is the reason of washing of the sexual impurity, and rather he has committed the Permissible (activity), and pollution isn’t from the Permissible? ’
He-asws said: ‘The sexual impurity is at the status of the menstruation, and that is because the seed is blood not having been affirmed, and the copulation cannot happen except with intense movement and prevailing lust. When he is free, the body breathes and the man finds abhorrent smell from himself, so the washing is obligated due to that; and the washing of the sexual impurity, along with that, is an entrustment Allah-azwj has Entrusted His-azwj servants upon it in order to Test them by it’’. [10]