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5. This day are (all) things good and pure made lawful unto you. The food of the People
of the Book is lawful unto you and yours is lawful unto them. (Lawful unto you in
marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers, but chaste women am ong the
People of the Book, revealed before your time,- when ye give them their due dowers, and
desire chastity, not lewdness, nor secret intrigues if any one rejects faith, fruitless is his
work, and in the Hereafter he will be in the ranks of those w ho have lost (all spiritual
good).
Section 2 (6-11)
6. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo itha qumtum ila a
l
ssalati fa
i
ghsiloo wujoohakum
waaydiyakum ila almarafiqi wa
i
msahoo biruoosikum waarjulakum ila alkaAAbayni wa-
in kuntum junuban fa
i
ttahharoo wa-in kuntum marda aw AAala safarin aw jaa ahadun
minkum mina algha-iti aw lamastumu a
l
nnisaa falam tajidoo maan fatayammamoo
saAAeedan tayyiban fa
i
msahoo biwujoohikum waaydeekum minhu ma yureedu Allahu
liyajAAala AAalaykum min harajin walakin yureedu liyutahhirakum waliyutimma
niAAmatahu AAalaykum laAAallakum tashkuroon
a
6. O ye who believe! when ye prepare for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands (and
arms) to the elbows; Rub your heads (with water); and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If
ye are in a state of ceremonial impurity, bathe your whole body. But if ye are ill, or on a
journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with
women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub
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