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QUR'AN CHAPTER 4:
AN-NISA (WOMEN)
Verse 43

4:43 yaa ay-yuhal-ladhiyna aamanuu laa taqrabuS Salaata wa antum sukaaraa Hat-taa ta'Ålamuu maa taquuluuna wa laa junuban il-laa 'AAbiriy sabiylin Hat-taa tagtasiluu* wa in kuntum marDaa aw 'Alaa safarin aw jaa-a aHadum minkum minal gaaiTi aw laa mastumun nisaa-a falam tajiduu maa-an fa tayam-mamuu Sa'Iydan Tay-yiban famsaHuu bi wujuuhikum wa aydiykum* in-nal-laaha kaana 'Afuw-wan gafuuraa

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
O People who Believe! Do not approach the prayer when you are intoxicated until you have the sense to understand what you say, nor in the state of impurity until you have bathed except while travelling; and if you are ill or on a journey or one of you returns from answering the call of nature or you have cohabited with women, and you do not find water, then cleanse (yourself) with clean soil - therefore stroke your faces and your hands with it; indeed Allah is Most Pardoning, Oft Forgiving.

Yusuf Ali:
O ye who believe! Approach not prayers with a mind befogged, until ye can understand all that ye say,- nor in a state of ceremonial impurity (Except when travelling on the road), until after washing your whole body. 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 therewith your faces and hands. For Allah doth blot out sins and forgive again and again.

Pickthal:
O ye who believe! Draw not near unto prayer when ye are drunken, till ye know that which ye utter, nor when ye are polluted, save when journeying upon the road, till ye have bathed. And if ye be ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye find not water, then go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands (therewith). Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving.

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