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spreads on the feet. If he, therefore, washes only his feet, he will have completed the ablution
during which he made masah. Also, when the duration of masah is over he washes his feet only.
But it has been declared (by Islamic scholars) that it would be better to perform a new ablution in
both cases. For, muwalat is sunnat in Hanafi Madhhab and fard in Maliki Madhhab.
It is not permissible to make masah on a turban or skullcap, on a headgear, on a veil or mask, or
on gloves.
It is permissible to make masah on splints, that is, on strips of wood bound to a broken bone on
both sides. The ointment, the cotton, the wick, the gauze, the plaster, the bandage or the like,
which is put on or in a wound, boil, or cut or crack on the skin, if it will be harmful to untie it or
to take it off, or if after taking it off washing or masah will harm the wound, we pour water on it
if it is waterproof, e.g. covered with an ointment or rubber. If it lets water through we make
masah on it. If cold water will do harm to a wound, warm water must be used. If warm water will
be harmful it is necessary to make masah on it. If masah will be harmful, too, we make masah on
what is on it. We can make masah on that part of the bandage coinciding with the healthy part of
the skin as well as on the skin under the bandage. It is acceptable to make masah on more than
half of it. If even this masah will do harm to the wound, we do not make masah. If it will not be
harmful to make masah on it, it is necessary to make masah. If it will not be harmful to take it off
and wash the healthy part of the skin under it, it is necessary to wash under it. [As it is written in
the book Al- fiqh-u 'alal-madhahib-il-arba'a, the four Madhhabs are unanimous in the fact that
the permissibility of making masah on a bandage or ointment applied on a wound is dependent
on the condition that washing the wound or making masah on it will aggravate the wound.
Aggravation means a delay in recovery or an exacerbation of pain]. If, after the masah, it is taken
off or falls off before the wound heals, the masah is not annulled. If it falls off after the wound
heals, it becomes necessary to wash under it. Masah on any of all these things (which are
mentioned above) replaces washing under it. He who makes masah on one of them is not a
person with an excuse. He can be an imam for others. Any part which a specialist Muslim doctor
has said must not be washed is like a wound. In making masah on it a man, a woman, a muhdis
and a junub are all in the same category. Intention is not necessary for any of them. Ibni Abidin
'rahmatullahu 'alaih', after explaining the fards in an ablution, writes: "If a person who has a
wound or cut on his hand cannot use water, that is, if he cannot wash his hands with water or put
his face, head, ears or feet in the water he makes tayammum. A person one part of whose arm or
foot has been cut away washes the surface of the remaining part." If a prisoner who is fastened
by the hands and feet cannot perform tayammum, without an ablution he makes the ruku' and
sajda without reciting the suras. If he cannot do this, either, he performs the namaz standing by
making signs. When he becomes free he performs it again.
A person WITH AN EXCUSE performs ablution whenever he likes. With this ablution he
performs as many fard and supererogatory prayers of namaz as he likes and reads the Qur'an as
much as he likes. When the prescribed time of namaz is over, his ablution is broken
automatically. Performing a new ablution after each prayer time arrives, he does every kind of
worship until the time is over. He cannot perform a prayer of namaz with the ablution he made
before the time of the prayer has arrived. With the exception of early afternoon prayer, he cannot
perform any of the other four prayers with an ablution he has made before the beginning of that
prayer time. For, the beginning of early afternoon prayer is not at the same time the end of
another prayer time. The continuous excuse of a person does not break his ablution within a
prayer time. However, it will be broken by another cause. When the prayer time is over it will be
broken by the excuse, too.
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