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one is prevented from reaching water, or if the amount of water available is
needed for his thirsty companions, or the water belongs to another who will not
sell any except at an excessive price, or if one is wounded or ill and fearing that
the use of water might harm one‟s ailment, then you may wait until the time of
prayer is due and search for some dry clean dust from a high point, and press
both palms of your hands onto the dry pure soft dust and rub your two hands
together once, then wipe the face once, and utter the intention to perform wudu,
then you should press your hands to the dust again and wipe your right arm until
the elbow, then the left until the elbow. Then you may pray the obligatory prayer
after, which you may perform any voluntary prayer. But if you are going to join
two obligatory prayers together, you should perform another dry ablution after the
first prayer. Thus each obligatory prayer must have a dry ablution before it.
Chapter Three
Cleansing
needed for his thirsty companions, or the water belongs to another who will not
sell any except at an excessive price, or if one is wounded or ill and fearing that
the use of water might harm one‟s ailment, then you may wait until the time of
prayer is due and search for some dry clean dust from a high point, and press
both palms of your hands onto the dry pure soft dust and rub your two hands
together once, then wipe the face once, and utter the intention to perform wudu,
then you should press your hands to the dust again and wipe your right arm until
the elbow, then the left until the elbow. Then you may pray the obligatory prayer
after, which you may perform any voluntary prayer. But if you are going to join
two obligatory prayers together, you should perform another dry ablution after the
first prayer. Thus each obligatory prayer must have a dry ablution before it.
Chapter Three
Cleansing