ablutions

His elaborate morning ablutions with the hair and the make-up routine alone make any kind of imprisonment unthinkable.

New York City’s estimated 275 mosques were among the first to host or counsel Muslim immigrants seeking shelter, halal food and water spigots used in pre-prayer ablutions.

During Israel's takeover of the hospital, those who remained describe surviving on limited food and water, performing ablutions, or cleansing before prayers, using the fluid from medical drips and living in cramped and unsanitary conditions after being moved into a single building.

While death, remembrance of the dead and preservation of a people and their history are key strands throughout the book, Tuffaha does an exceptional job of showing how life can be a living death through lines such as “we perform our ablutions / in tear gas / our limbs stun / our hearts grenade / our wounds live” and “all language is littered with corpses / of words.”

“These powers were allegedly acquired by Buddhist priests who performed austerities in the mountains such as ablutions under freezing waterfalls, meditation in caves, and severe dietary restrictions during extended periods of seclusion.”