مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٥٠ - ABLUTIONS

visible it is sufficient to wash the hair and it is not necessary to make the water reach below them.
٢٤٧. If a person doubt whether or not his skin is visible from within the hair of the face he should, on the basis of obligatory precaution, wash his hair and alsomake the water reach the skin.
٢٤٨. While performing ablutions it is not obligatory that one should wash the inner parts of the nose, lips, and eyes. However, in order to ensure that all thoseparts which must be washed have been washed, it is obligatory that some portion of these parts (i.e. inner parts of nose, lips and eyes) should also be washed. And if aperson does not know about the extent to which the face must be washed and does not remember whether he has washed his face to that extent during ablutions which he hasalready performed he should perform ablutions again and also offer the prayers again which he has already offered with the previous ablutions, provided that time for theoffering of that prayers still exists. However, it is not obligatory to reoffer those prayers, whose time has already passed.
٢٤٩. The face and hands should be washed from above to below and if one washes them from below to above his ablutions will be void.
٢٥٠. If a person makes his hand wet and draws it on his face and hands and if the wetness of the hand is so much that by drawing it on the face and hands littlewater begins to flow on them it is sufficient.
٢٥١. After washing the face one should first wash the right hand and then the left hand from the elbows up to the tips of the fingers.
٢٥٢. In order to ensure that each elbow has been washed to the prescribed extent one should also include some portion above it.
٢٥٣. If before washing his face a person has washed his hands up to the wrist he should, while performing ablutions, wash