The Intention for the Dry Ablution: Does It Lift Impurity or Only Permit the Prayer?
What does one intend in the dry ablution, and does it lift impurity as the ablution does, or merely permit the prayer while the impurity remains?
The dry ablution lifts the impurity so long as the excuse remains; he intends by it purification from impurity or the permitting of prayer, and with it he prays whatever obligatory and voluntary prayers he wishes.
The dry ablution permits the prayer and does not lift the impurity; the intention of lifting impurity is therefore not valid, and he intends instead the permitting of the prayer or of what the impurity barred.
The dry ablution permits the prayer and does not lift the impurity; he intends the permitting of an obligatory prayer, so as to pray one obligatory prayer and whatever voluntary prayers he wishes, and the intention of lifting impurity is not valid.
The dry ablution permits the prayer while the impurity remains; he intends the permitting of the prayer, or of an act of worship that requires purity — and if he intends the lifting of impurity, his dry ablution is not valid.