Wudhu

Prayer is a contact with Allah and Allah is pure and clean. The person in contact with his Lord should be clean and tidy both internally and externally. It is obligatory to purify yourself prior to Salaat (prayer). This purification procedure is known as ‘Wudhu’. Muslim’s prayers are not acceptable by Allah without Wudhu. It has been made compulsory before each prayer.

How to Perform Wudhu?

• First of all, affirm the intention for Wudhu in your heart.
• Say Bismillah( In the name of Allah).
• Wash the right hand upto the wrists (including wrists) three times. Rub amid the fingers of your hand and confirm that no part of the hand should be left dry.
• Do the same with your left hand, three times.
• Make a cup with your right hand and take water in your mouth. Rinse and gargle the mouth three times.
• Wash the nose three times. Sniff water into your nose with cupped right hand and then blow the water out. Use left hand to clean your nose.
• Wash the face three times from the beginning of forehead to the bottom of the chin.
• Man should wash his beard by entering handful of water below his chin and rubbing it through his beard. Pass wet fingers through the beard.
• Wash the right arm three times from fingertips, nails to elbow (including elbow). Do same with left arm three times.
• Place wet hands at the font of head (beginning of hairline) and wipe the head backwards reaching the nape. Then bring your hands back to the front of your head (beginning of hairline). Do it only once.
• Insert index fingers tips into ears to clean them. Twist them round the folds of ears and wipe the back of ears with your thumbs. This should be done from bottom of the ear to upwards and once only.
• Wipe the neck with the back of wet hands.
• Wash the right foot upto and including ankles three times. Enter water between your toes with little finger and wash your foot including sole of foot and heals.
• Wash the left foot same as the right foot three times.

Things that can break Wudhu

Vomiting, injury, drawing blood, unconsciousness, sleeping, passing water, answering the call of nature and dozing can break your Wudhu.

Note

 Mud should be properly removed from your body and water should be reached in every part of body.

• Remove nail polish before Wudhu to allow water reach your nails.
• Water should be pure and clean for Wudhu.