CHAPTER Ablution Anah, Exalted be He, says: "0)"''' who haw Iulieved, when you rise'" {pert".m ) wash your factJ and your jonarnu 10 Ihe dbows and wipe over )'(IlIr /lead$ and wash , ,UT feM III the ankles H This AI·M;l'idah: 6) states that performing ablution whenever rising to prayer is obligatory, and tells us which Dcgan should bttS Moreover if one wears a ring, a wrmwatch, o r the like oM ha, 10 move it 10 lel water underneath Thus, one has to perform rituallnthing so perfedly w rifyi ng Ihal there is not a single body parI bUI water has reached, for Ihe Prophet (PBUH ) said in a hlOdilh ITlat d by Abil O iwUd nd AI - Tirm idhi: • -The", i jIlndooll under every ingle hair, deanu th • • kin $I) wash 'lit hair well and • I: rURIFlO'I1 QN MOretlVC r, onc should by no use water wastefully taking a ritual lNth Rather, 0"'" should use wata provided lNt hing is JX'rfonntd Pl"OJX'rtr lnd JX'rf«t1y as prescrikd in Muslims should fOllow the example of the Prophet (pIIUH) ,nd r.ltionalize their use of water during purificatiull, for he (PBUH) u ,d to perform ablu tion with one mudd and to take a bath with one AI$ it is for a MUSlim to sc rte su" by others)." (Related by Abtl O)wUd and An·NaHl).• Taking a ritual b.ath to purify onesdffrom the Slale of major ritual impurity is one of the trmt, klw('('n I servanl and his lord, 5(l one should k ktt'Tl on fulfilling Ihis obligation properly and observ ing its rulings carefully, 5(l as 10 perform il legally anl