Motif
ritual purification with water or earth substitute
ritual_purification_with_water_or_earth_substitute
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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The Koran (Al-Qur'an) CHAPTER IV. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD / CHAPTER V. / IN THE NAME OF THE MOST MERCIFUL GOD.; lines 13631-13701 confidence: high
Before prayer believers wash faces, hands, heads, and feet; after pollution they wash all over; without water in listed conditions they use fine clean sand; God desires purification and completion of favor.
Prayer preparation requires washing with water, while clean sand substitutes when water is unavailable under specified conditions.
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