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8 - While washing the face, one must not splash the water on one's face, but pour it from the
upper forehead downwards.
9 - One must not blow on or over the surface of the water.
10 - One must not close one's mouth and eyes tightly. If even a tiny part of the outward part of
the lips or the eyelids is left dry, the ablution will not be acceptable.
11 - One must not expel mucus from one's nose with one's right hand.
12 - One must not make masah on one's head, ears or neck more than once after moistening the
hands each time. But it can be repeated without moistening the hands again.
Warning: Unless there is a strong necessity, the following eleven rules must be obeyed:
1 - A person with both hands paralyzed (or no hands at all) cannot make taharat. Instead he
makes tayammum by rubbing his arms on some soil and his face against a wall. If there is a
wound one his face, he performs the namaz without an ablution in order not to miss namaz.
2 - If a person is sick, his wife, jariya, children, sisters, or brothers may help him perform his
ablution.
3 - Making taharat with stones and the like is the same as making it with water.
4 - If a person who went mad or fainted did not recover within twenty-four hours, he would not
have to perform (qada) his missed prayers of namaz when he recovered. He who loses
consciousness by taking alcohol, opium or medicine must perform each omitted prayer. A person
who is so heavily ill that he cannot even perform the namaz by moving his head while lying
down, even if he is conscious, is exempted from performing namaz. However, this state must go
on for more than twenty-four hours.
5 - It is mustahab (a source of blessings) to use special baggy trousers and to cover the head
when entering the toilet.
6 - When entering the toilet one must not hold something in one's hand containing Allah's name
or pieces of writing from the Qur'an. It must be wrapped up with something or it must be in one's
pocket. The case is the same with an amulet.
7 - One must enter the toilet with one's left foot and go out with one's right foot.
8 - In the toilet one must open one's private parts after squatting and one must not talk.
9 - One must not look at one's private parts or at the waste material or spit in the toilet.
10 - In the toilet, one must not eat or drink anything, sing, whistle, [smoke] or chew gum.
11 - One must not urinate into any water, on a wall of a mosque, in a cemetery, or onto any road.
THINGS THAT NULLIFY AN ABLUTION: It is written in the book Halabi: "In Hanafi
Madhhab, seven things nullify an ablution: Firstly, everything excreted from the front and rear
organs, for example breaking wind, breaks an ablution. Only the wind coming out of a man's or
woman's front does not break an ablution. This happens with very few people. The worms
coming out of the mouth, ears or a wound on the skin do not break an ablution. When the point
of an enema or a man's finger is inserted into one's back and taken out, if it is moist it breaks an
ablution. If it is dry, it would still be a good idea to renew the ablution. The case is so with
everything that is partly inserted into the anus. If something is inserted and taken out wholly, it
breaks both an ablution and a fast. If a person's hemorrhoids come out and he drives them back
in with his hand or with something like a cloth, his ablution will be broken.
When a man puts some oil in his urethra and it flows out, it does not break his ablution according
to Imam-i azam. When a woman applies vaginal lavage, the liquid that flows out breaks her
ablution.
It is permissible for a man to insert into his urethra a small natural cotton wick lest he will
release urine inadvertently. In case there is suspicion of leakage, it is mustahab for a man to do
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