Motif
Purification before sacred speech or prayer
purification_before_sacred_speech_or_prayer
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family, within the sub-family Purification and Pollution. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) PUBLIC SERVICES, / AND EMINENT LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, / THE TRANSLATOR. / PREFACE; lines 22473-22591 confidence: high
Believers must not come to prayer drunk or polluted until they understand or have washed; if water is unavailable, they rub pure sand and bathe face and hands with it.
The passage prohibits approaching prayer in states of drunkenness or pollution and prescribes washing with water or rubbing with pure sand when water is absent.
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