When you rise up for prayer...

When you rise up for prayer, wash your faces and your hands as far as the elbows, and lighily rub your heads and your feet up to the ankles. And if you are Jun ubs'42purify yourselves. And if you are sick or on a journey, or one of you come from the privacy, or you have had contact with women, and you cannot find water, then betake yourselves to clean earth, and wipe your faces and your hands with some of it.

Allah would not place a burden on you, but He would purify you and would perfect His grace upon you, that you may be grateful." Sure Al-Ma ida (5:6) "... Truly Allah loves those who repent (to Him), and loves those who purify themselves." Sure Al-Baqara (2:222) On the basis of the above verses, the Messenger (S.A.) explained the programme of purity, taking care of the society and the Muslim. He regulated rinsing the mouth, sniffing…