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Therefore, purifying the heart, which is the real place of servitude, and the actual center of those meanings, is more necessary. Without its purification, the external organs will never be purified even if they are washed in the seven seas, and it (the heart) will not deserve being in the Presence of Allah. Actually, Satan will have a hand in it, and it will be dismissed from His Glorious Presence.

Connection: In an authorized narrative in ' Ilal ash - Sharā'i' it is thus related: “A group of Jews came to the Messenger of Allah ( s ) and asked him questions. Among their questions they asked: “Tell us, O Muhammad, why are these four organs given the Wudu' , while they are the cleanest parts of the body?” The Messenger of Allah ( s ) said: “When Satan whispered to Adam (' a ) and he came near the 'tree' and looked at it, he lost face.

He stood up and walked to it the first step taken towards sinning. He took with his hand some of what was on it and ate it. Off his body flew what were on him of jewelry and apparel. He put his hand on the top of his head and wept. Allah accepted his repentance, but made it incumbent upon him and his offspring to purify those four organs. So, Allah ordered the face to be washed, because it looked at the 'tree'.

He ordered the hands to be washed to the elbows, because he took with them (the fruit of the tree). He ordered the head to be wiped (with the hand wet with water), as he put his hand on the top of his head, and He ordered the feet to be wiped because with them he walked to sin.”[^3] Concerning the reason for imposing fasting, there is also a noble hadīth to the effect that the Jews asked him: “What caused Allah to impose on your people to fast for thirty days?” He said: “It was Adam (' a ), because what he had eaten from that 'tree' remained in his stomach for thirty days.