O you who have believed,

when you rise to prayer,

then wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows,

and wipe over your heads and your feet up to the ankles.

"I do not find in the Book of Allah except the wiping,

but they refused except the washing."

So what the humble servant understands from this saying of his,

is that it is not an inclination from him towards the opinion of the validity of wiping over the feet

while caution - may Allah be pleased with them both - lies in carrying the verse upon the obligation of washing,

and rather he is stating a difficulty here and displaying a possibility,

so that he sees how the jurists of his era reconcile between these two conflicting matters,

and what the methodology for the proof is which they follow.

As for those who do not know the dialogues of the predecessors and the methodologies of their discussions and their debates,

they think that to be a saying of Ibn Abbas - may Allah be pleased with them both - and a school of thought.

Far removed is he then far removed is he!

2 - And the second principle is that narrations from the Children of Israel and the reports narrated from them were smuggled into our religion,

and indeed an important rule has been established for that,

which is none other than his saying - may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him -

"Do not believe the People of the Book and do not deny them."

Observing two matters in the Israelite reports:

So for the sake of that, two matters became necessary:

1 - The first is that as long as the clarification of the Qur'anic allusions and its indication towards it