Does touching the nose after wiping the head and ears and before washing the feet during Wudu invalidate it by disrupting the sequence (tartib) and continuity (muwalat), or is it considered an extraneous act?
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Touching the nose does not invalidate the sequence (muwalat) in wudu, and a slight separation between washing the limbs of wudu does not affect its validity, by the consensus of Muslims.
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