World’s smelliest man has gone 38 years without bathing
 

Kailash Singh, 66, says he won't bathe or cut his hair until he has a son
Kailash Singh works all day tending cattle in heat that sometimes reaches 47 C, but at the end of the day he doesn't shower to cool down or get the sweat off. In fact, he hasn't showered in 38 years and is considered by many to be the world's smelliest man although Guinness won't give out an award in the category.

The 66-year-old farmer, who lives near the holy city of Varanasi in the northwest part of India, stopped showering and cutting his hair in 1974 shortly after he got married on advice from a priest. The holy man guaranteed him a son if he stopped showering, according to the Daily Mail. Now 38 years later, Singh has six-foot long dreadlocks from his head, a beard, seven daughters but no son. Even though it's unlikely he and his 60-year-old wife will be able to have their first son now, he's still holding out hope and won't shower.

Yes, he still has a wife, but she doesn't like his hygiene choices and neither do his daughters. His wife has threatened to stop sleeping in the same bed as him if he didn't bathe. She and the daughters once tried to force him into a stream, but he fought them off. When they try to force him into a shower he puts up a huge fuss.
"He says he'd rather die than take a bath and only a son could change his mind," said his wife, Kalavati Devi, in the Daily Mail article. "It has been so many years now I've got used to it."
It isn't just his family that is bothered. Neighbours make fun of him and village children tease him, but he says they don't understand his decision.

He does use water to wash his face and hands and every evening takes what he calls a "fire bath" that apparently involves smoking marijuana, praying to the Hindu Lord Shiva and dancing around a bonfire. We're not sure if he manages to do this without breaking a sweat, but he said the "fire bath" is enough to get rid of the smell.
"I have no son, so I will never wash again," he said to the Daily Mail. "Maybe when I am born again I will wash."

Lol... The stinky thread!

Alhamdulilla hil lazee (who) saved us from such 'filthy' ways of life.....

Ameen

Right on. Alhamdulillah.

at least he is not married to a tree

I saw on TV few years ago a Hindu man who hadn't cut his nails for so many years and is in the Guinness book of records. This must be be a Hindu thing - not washing and not cutting nails? But... since in India they wash in the toilet with water - he's probably fresher down there than the rest of his body!

What about Sikhs - they are forbidden to cut hair - I believe even for pubic and underarm hair - which in Islam we would see as unhygienic.

Islam is awesome!

Is the reason Indian people wash with water a cultural thing and not religious and it's cheaper than tissue?

At least the tree can't smell his stinky arm pits. His poor wife how on earth do they have 6 daughters I don't know!! It will be better for his wife if he did marry a tree lol

Maybe she had a blocked up nose 6 times in her life? Lol.

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Forgive me If i sound impolite, i do not mean to do so. Let us please feel grateful we are Muslim, that Allah swt opened our hearts to this beautiful Deen, and compassion for those who have not been blessed in such a way. I feel sorry for this man, he is clearly very spiritual, its sad that his spirituality has been misdirected so badly. I know no one has in this thread, but I heard today, so thought I would share.
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Oh goodness http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...icon_smile.gif ^.^ funny

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yes if he had married a dog with its powerful sense of smell it would likely be overcome http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...rries-dog.html

UUUuuuurrrrrrrrrGGGHHHHHHH!!!! :0

:D

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As fun as it may be to point to this man for whatever reason (stench or not), we shouldn't get carried away here; Allah http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/taala.gif could guide him to Islam and he could easily take shahada tomorrow and earn the pleasure of Allah http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/taala.gif we are not privy to such knowledge and perhaps it is best to remind ourselves that such potential puts him at a potential advantage over us... are we really so sure of our own position that we're going to point to others in such a way (rhetorical question)? [edit: I know I definitely am not... may Allah http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/taala.gif forgive us. Ameen.]

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You gotta respect the guys isteyqamat though and incredible certainty on words of the priest.

true, we should be grateful for what we have been blessed with (and saved from such practices) and feel sorry for his misguidance and pray for his guidance.

Aamilaa tun naaa sibaaah, taslaaah naaaran haaamiyaaaa.........(Suraah Ghaashiyaah)


Once Umar bin al Khattab saw an old Christian monk worshipping for such a long time. Umar said ‘aamilatun naasibah (working tirelessly). And he began to weep.

This monk had dedicated his life to worship, but to other than Allah. So this monk had exhausted himself, but how could he get his reward from Allah if he didn’t do it for His sake?

yes.. indeed. Its like taking bayah of not taking a bath..

But can you imagine.. he is in janabat for 38 years!

General Islam?

Cool story?

The man could be mentally ill and we should not laugh at his expense. Where is the source of the article?

If he was Muslim, would you ridicule him the same way?

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The man is not sick, he might be a sikh. The article is all over the net. Just search google. And no, we are not making fun of him per se. Rather we are trying to show gratitude for this clean and pure religion we have been blessed with. I hope that he gets hidayah before his death.

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