Wuḍūʾ
Definition
Wudu is the ritual washing performed before prayer and certain other acts of worship, involving the face, hands and forearms, head, and feet. Al-Ghazali details its legal requirements — the obligatory elements, the recommended acts, the conditions that nullify it — and then opens the inner dimension: each limb washed is simultaneously being offered to Allah as an instrument of worship. He cites the hadith that sins fall from the limbs along with the drops of water, and argues that this is not metaphor but spiritual reality — provided the washing is accompanied by true presence of heart and sincere intention.
As understood in the classical tradition of Imam al-Ghazali and the scholars of his school.
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