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  2. Attar - Wikipedia

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    The bottles are for aging the perfume (the skin breathes, allowing the water to evaporate while holding in the fragrance and oil, becoming a perfume, or attar). Attar, also known as ittar, is an essential oil derived from botanical or other natural sources.

  3. Religion and drugs - Wikipedia

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    The Muslim-majority nations of Turkey and Egypt were instrumental in banning opium, cocaine, and cannabis when the League of Nations committed to the 1925 International Convention relating to opium and other drugs (later the 1934 Dangerous Drugs Act). The primary goal was to ban opium and cocaine, but cannabis was added to the list, and it ...

  4. Prophetic medicine - Wikipedia

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    He generally opposed the use of cauterization for causing "pain and menace to a patient". [11] Other items with beneficial effects attributed to Muhammad, and standard features on traditional medicine in the Islamicate world, include olive oil; dates; miswak as a necessity for oral health and Nigella sativa or "black seed" or "black cumin" and ...

  5. Holy anointing oil - Wikipedia

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    While sources agree about the identity of four of the five ingredients of anointing oil, the identity of the fifth, kaneh bosem, has been a matter of debate.The Bible indicates that it was an aromatic cane or grass, which was imported from a distant land by way of the spice routes, and that a related plant grows in Israel (kaneh bosem is referenced as a cultivated plant in the Song of Songs 4:14.

  6. Can you use olive oil during sex? 5 things to know about lube

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    According to women’s health expert Dr. Jennifer Wider, “oil-based lubricants can destroy the integrity of latex condoms.” That includes anything with oil in it, such as lotion or petroleum ...

  7. Odinala - Wikipedia

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    Ọdịnala in central Igbo dialect is the compound of the words ọ̀ dị̀ ('located') + n (nà, 'within') + àla (the one god) [consisting of Elu above (the heavens) and Ala, below (the earth)].

  8. Ritual purification - Wikipedia

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    Taking the bride to the bath house, Shalom Koboshvili, 1939. Male Wudu Facility at University of Toronto's Multifaith Centre.. Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness.

  9. Turbah - Wikipedia

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    The use of a turbah is recommended (Arabic: مُسْتَحَبّ, romanized: mustahabb, lit. 'beloved') according to the Twelver Shia school of Islam , a unique practice of the sect, and many ahadith mention the benefits of prostration ( Arabic : سجدة , romanized : sajdah ) upon soil or an alternative natural material.