[1] For practical purposes in jurisprudential rulings, expressing an ‘apparent’ ruling equates to giving a fatwa.
[2] In another of his works on Islamic law, al-Sayyid al-Sistani hypothetically discusses different ways by which a person could wash his arms by combining the method of performing wuḍūʾ by immersion with the method of performing it in the normal (non-immersive) manner, and thereby be able to perform the wiping of his head and feet with the wetness that is on his hand from having washed the arm in the normal manner.
One of these ways is as follows: as washing a second time is recommended, a person could – after washing his left arm by immersion – wash it again in the normal way with his right hand and then wipe his head and feet (Taʿlīqāt ʿalā al‑ʿUrwah al‑Wuthqā, vol. 1, p. 160, Ruling 511). RECOMMENDED SUPPLICATION (DUʿĀʾ) WHILE PERFORMING WUḌŪʾ[1] ABLUTION (WUḌŪʾ) العربية فارسی اردو English Azərbaycan Türkçe Français