Regarding His saying, the Exalted: “And your feet to the ankles” (from Surat al-Ma'idah), if the genitive reading is interpreted as wiping, does His saying “to the ankles” not pose a difficulty for this, since wiping is not done to the ankles?
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The questioner : “To the ankles”—how did you say wiping is like that, to the ankles? I say, if we take this as evidence for wiping... how does the wiping work?
The Shaykh : The Sunnah clarified that what is meant by “the ankles” is up to the end of the lower leg.
The Shaykh : The Sunnah clarified that what is meant by “the ankles” is up to the end of the lower leg.