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not using water when it is reasonably available. After performing
tayammum one should not delay going to prayer.
External cleanliness brings about the desire for inner cleanliness.
Prayer in Al-Islam is a higher form of ablution because it affects
the mind directly. In instructing his followers to pray, Prophet
Muhammad Sg said, "If there were a river at the door of anyone of
you and he washed in it five times a day, would you notice any
dirt on him?" They said, "Not a trace of dirt would be left." Pro-
phet Muhammad added, "That is the example of the five
prayers by which Allah annuls evil deeds.''143
Five is a number which is symbolically used to represent the ra-
tional sense. If one devotes his full mind, heart and all of his senses
to Allah for the purpose of bringing about external and internal
cleanliness, and if he follows Al-Islam he will become clean. Ablu-
tion is a state of physical and mental cleanliness.
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tayammum one should not delay going to prayer.
External cleanliness brings about the desire for inner cleanliness.
Prayer in Al-Islam is a higher form of ablution because it affects
the mind directly. In instructing his followers to pray, Prophet
Muhammad Sg said, "If there were a river at the door of anyone of
you and he washed in it five times a day, would you notice any
dirt on him?" They said, "Not a trace of dirt would be left." Pro-
phet Muhammad added, "That is the example of the five
prayers by which Allah annuls evil deeds.''143
Five is a number which is symbolically used to represent the ra-
tional sense. If one devotes his full mind, heart and all of his senses
to Allah for the purpose of bringing about external and internal
cleanliness, and if he follows Al-Islam he will become clean. Ablu-
tion is a state of physical and mental cleanliness.
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