{"id":258238,"date":"2010-02-01T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T10:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11601"},"modified":"2010-02-01T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T10:51:16","slug":"muslim-washing-rite-goes-hi-tech-with-%e2%80%9cwudu%e2%80%9d-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/258238","title":{"rendered":"Muslim washing rite goes hi-tech with \u201cwudu\u201d machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"articleText\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11602\" title=\"wudu\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/02\/wudu-225x351-custom.jpg\" alt=\"wudu\" width=\"225\" height=\"351\" \/>A Malaysian company has invented a machine it says will help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water. The ornate, green-colored machine comes with automatic sensors and basins to curb water usage during <em>wudu<\/em>, an Arabic word used to describe the act of washing the face, arms and legs before prayers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The <em>wudu<\/em>, or ablution, rite precedes the five daily prayers Muslims are obligated to perform. There are more than 1.7 billion Muslims in the world, with the majority in Africa and the Middle East where water supplies are scarce.<\/p>\n<p>Inventors AACE Technologies is counting on rich countries in these two regions to snap up the machines that will be available in the next six months and cost $3,000-$4,000 a piece.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"articleText\"><em>&#8220;During the Haj, two million people used 50 million liters water a day for wudu. If they introduce this machine they are saving 40 million liters per day,&#8221;<\/em> <\/span><span id=\"articleText\">AACE Chairman Anthony Gomez <\/span><span id=\"articleText\">said, referring to the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSTRE6100FM20100201\"><span>Read the whole story.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span id=\"apture_prvw5\"> <\/span><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian company has invented a machine it says will help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water. The ornate, green-colored machine comes with automatic sensors and basins to curb water usage during wudu, an Arabic word used to describe the act of washing the face, arms and legs before prayers. The wudu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}