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Washing or Rubbing of the feet in ablution - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief Washing or Rubbing of the feet in ablution 2022-12-18 672 Views Ablution , The Holy Quran One of the controversial issues among Sunni and Shia Muslims is the issue of washing or rubbing the feet in ablution. The Sunni Muslims wash their feet in ablution while the Shia Muslims rub theirs.

When you stand up for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe a part of your heads and your feet, up to the ankles. Pronunciation with the jarr vowel (arjulikum) Meanwhile, anyone who has a minimum knowledge of the Arabic language agrees that when “ارجلِكم” (your feet) is pronounced with jarr vowel, it is added to “رؤوس” (heads), and whatever rule is mentioned for “heads” is applicable to the feet.

This is not inconsiderable different from the case it had directly said, “امسحوا بارجلكم” (rub your feet). One may claim that although the statement apparently stipulates that “ارجلكم” (your feet) is added to ‘head’ and has the same rule as the head, external reasons (1) indicate that ‘feet’ do not have the same rule as of ‘head’ and they should be washed, not rubbed. Our answer is that, first, as it will be discussed later, there are no such valid and unquestionable reasons (2).

Second, if we suppose that there are such reasons, their proof is not certain. On the other hand, the explicitness of the statement in the verse makes altering it very obscene, away from God’s Glorious Word, which is of the best degrees of eloquence. If ‘feet’ is not added to ‘heads,’ not having its rules, it should probably be added to ‘your hands’ and hence washed. But in this case too, pronouncing ‘your feet’ with jarr vowel would be unjustifiable.

The only apparently justified argument posed by some people to justify the vowel jarr for ‘feet’ without being attached to ‘heads’ is jarr, because of an adjacent noun.