Five Times a Day, the Same Sequence
How the Islamic Wudu Performs the Zoroastrian Pādyāb at Every Prayer Threshold eFireTemple “O you who have believed, when you rise to perform prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles.” — Quran 5:6 (the verse that establishes wudū) “Before the Kusti can commence, the hands, open arms, face, neck and exposed parts of the feet need to be washed with clean free-flowing water in a special manner, which is known as the Pādyāb ritual.
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How the Islamic Wudu Performs the Zoroastrian Pādyāb at Every Prayer Threshold eFireTemple “O you who have believed, when you rise to perform prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles.” — Quran 5:6 (the verse that establishes wudū) “Before the Kusti can commence, the hands, open arms, face, neck and exposed parts of the feet need to be washed with clean free-flowing water in a special manner, which is known as the Pādyāb ritual. The word Pādyāb is derived from Avestan paiti-apa — ‘to throw water on’.” — Frashogard, on the Pādyāb Two Rituals at the Same Threshold Every observant Muslim, before each of the five daily prayers, performs a sequenced washing of specific body parts. The ritual is called wudū.
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