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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Obligations and Prohibitions in Islamic Divine Law Part 2 Chapter 2: Rulings of Devotional Acts It is obligatory upon any ceremonially impure person to obtain purity by means of minor ablution ( wudhu’ ) in order to be allowed to do the following acts: (1) performing daily prayers, (2) performing obligatory tawaf , (3) touching the scripts of the Holy Qur’an, and (4) performing prayers for a semi-menstrual ( mustahadhah : a woman in the state of light irregular menstruation) five times a day for the five daily prayers, regardless of whether or not it is obligatory upon her to perform the major ablution ( ghusl ).

It is obligatory upon one who is junub (unclean as a result of sexual intercourse) to perform the major ablution in order to perform the following six actions: (1) performing the daily ritual prayers, (2) tawaf , (3) touching the script of the Holy Qur’an, (4) reciting the four verses of prostration (i.e.

the four Qur’anic verses upon the reciting of which, it is obligatory to prostrate oneself), (5) staying or stopping in a mosque, and (6) passing through the Sacred Mosque in Mecca and the Prophet’s Mosque in al-Madinah. It is obligatory to wash the urinary orifice with water and to clean the anal orifice with water or three pieces of cleaning material (such as cloth, toilet paper, etc.), for the performance of prayers and obligatory tawaf .

For performing the previously mentioned six actions, it is obligatory upon a woman whose menstruation period is over to perform the major ablution of menstruation. In order to be allowed to perform the six mentioned actions, it is obligatory upon a woman who has just given birth to a child to perform the major ablution of lochia after the allowance of ten days for bleeding related to childbirth.

In order to be allowed to perform the six mentioned actions, it is obligatory upon a woman who has seen a certain amount of blood in other than her menstrual period to do the major ablution of semi-menstruation. It is obligatory upon a person who has touched a human corpse to perform the Touching the Dead Ritual Ablution ( ghusl mass al-mayyit ), in the event that the corpse has cooled and has not been given the three ritual ablutions; otherwise, the ritual ablution is not obligatory.

This rule is also applicable to touching any separated body part that has a bone.