Ablution

Ablution is a term referring to washing, and can mean ordinary washing, hand washing, or washing of the body. By extension, ablutions can refer to a collection of regular activities taken to produce physical cleanliness, including washing but also tasks like oral hygiene, and shaving, but is most often a term used to refer to ritual washing for the purpose of ritual purification.

Wudu

Wudu (Arabic: الوضوء al-wuḍū', Persian:آبدست ābdast, Turkish: abdest) is the Islamic act of washing parts of the body using water. Muslims are required to perform wudu in preparation for ritual prayers and for handling and reading the Qur'an. Wudu is often translated as "partial ablution", as opposed to ghusl, or "full ablution".

External Links

• Liturgical Use of Water from The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Baptism from The Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Hadith Book of Sahih Muslim; 'The Book of Purification (Kitab Al-Taharah)'
• Mary's Well, Nazareth

References

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• Arvigo, Rosita and Epstein, Nadine. Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals and Traditions from Around the World. Celestial Arts (October 2003). ISBN 978-1587611704.
• Haeri, Shaykh Fadhlalla. The Thoughtful Guide to Islam. O Books (July 25, 2004). ISBN 978-1903816622.
• Insoll, Timothy . Archaeology and World Religion. Routledge; 1 edition (March 19, 2001). ISBN 978-0415221559.
• Jacolliot, Louis. The Brahmin's First Degree of Initiation: Ablutions, Prayer, Ceremonies, and Evocation. Kessinger Publishing (December 30, 2005). ISBN 978-1425307202.
• Lawrence, Jonathan David. Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature (Sbl - Academia Biblica) (Hardcover). Brill Academic Publishers (May 31, 2007). ISBN 978-9004146709.

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