wudhu

، قال رسول الله صلی الله علیه و آله:الْوُضُوءُ نِصْفُ ا

If it forms obstruction for water preventing it from reaching skin ...

What is important in this matter is that the school of the Ahlul Bayt (a.s.), that do not rely on personal opinions nor on misinterpretation before clear texts, acts according to the Holy Book and the pure Sunna of Prophet. The wudhu’ that the Shia follow is the wudhu’ that Allah has imposed on Muslims in the Holy Qur'an and it is the wudhu’ that the Messenger of Allah (S) and the infallible imams of his progeny did practice...