Page is loading...  Wuzu (Statutory Ablution) in Allah’s Book
and the Prophet’s Tradition  One of the rules on whose necessity
and conditions for performing the five daily (obligatory)
prayers all the Muslims have consensus is the purity (Taharah).
One for whom the obligatory bathing (Ghusl) is not necessary can
accomplish purifying by ablution. Some actions and conditions of
the ritual ablution, like whether to wash or rub the feet, are
subject to controversy. Most Sunni scholars believe that washing
the feet in ablution is compulsory, but the verdict of all Shi’a
jurisprudents is to rub them. In case rubbing is incumbent,
should it be done all over the foot? Or is it enough to rub the
feet from the toes to the ankles?  At the outset of this
discussion, we direct the attention of the gentle readers, and
mostly our Sunni brethren, to some points:  A) Most of the
beliefs and rituals which are now considered as Islamic
certainties have not been so at the time of the Companions,
their followers and even one or t