O Believers! When (you intend) to stand for Prayer then (for ablution) wash your faces and hands up to the elbows, and pass your wet hands over your heads and (also wash) your feet up to the ankles. And if you are in a state of obligation for total ablution, purify yourselves well (by bathing). Should you be ill or on a journey, or someone of you comes (after) defecation, or you have had sexual contact (intercourse) with women and then you do not find water, (in these cases,) perform tayammum with clean soil. So, it is wiping your faces and (full) hands with it (i.e. clean soil). Allah does not want to make things anyway hard for you, but He wants to purify you, and complete the bestowal of His Favour upon you so that you may become grateful.