Is straightening hair with creams that make it permanently straight and not subject to curling with water considered a barrier to water (preventing ablution)?
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Oiling the hair with creams is permissible, unless it leads to a religiously forbidden consequence such as harm to the person, or preventing water from reaching the hair during ritual washing (), or if the oil itself is impure (najis).
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