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Kindly let me know wheather after bath with wet hair we can not "wazu" .We should wait for drying hair ( Head ).

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Answer:

Do wudu after ghusl bath

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The ‘Ghusl’ or full bath is a bigger form of physical purification than the ‘wudu’; thus if one has performed the ‘ghusl’ with the intention to purify oneself, there is absolutely no need or no obligation to redo the ‘wudu’ again before making oneself available for prayer.

But if one has done the ‘ghusl’ or full bath of purification, and if for any reason one has broken one’s state of ‘wudu’ after their ‘ghusl’ and wishes to perform the ‘wudu’, there is absolutely nothing in the authentic and established Sunnah which restricts them from performing their ‘wudu’, absolutely regardless of whether their hair is still wet from the ‘ghusl’ or dried!

The wetness of one’s hair is absolutely unrelated to the performance or state of one’s ‘wudu’.

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Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan