Para fuqaha' bersepakat bahawa kesucian syarie (tahārah) terbahagi kepada dua jenis: kesucian daripada hadath (najis hukmi) dan kesucian daripada khabath (najis hakiki).23 24 Mereka juga bersepakat bahawa kesucian daripada hadath terbahagi kepada tiga jenis: wuduk (wudū'), mandi (ghusl), dan gantinya, iaitu bersuci dengan tanah yang bersih (tayammum).24 Ini kerana ketiga-tiganya termasuk dalam ayat wuduk,25 yang membicarakan perkara-perkara ini. Kita akan memulakan, daripada ketiga-tiga ini, dengan perbincangan tentang wuduk. Kami berkata:

The Muslim jurists agreed that shai*i (legal) purity (tahdra) is of two types: purity from hadath (ritual impurity) and purity from khabath (physical impurity).23 24 They also agreed that purity from hadath is of three kinds: ablution (wudi?), bathing (gZws/), and their substitute, ablution with clean earth (tayammum)?* This is because of their inclusion in the verse of ablution,25 which dealt with these issues. We shall begin, out of these, with a discussion of ablution. We say: