Wudoo'

Method of Performing Wudoo'

Make the intention of performing the ablution [wudoo'] to obey the Command of Allāh and to obtain reward for doing so.

Recite the basmalah[1] and begin the wudoo'.

Wash your hands up to the wrists, three times.

[1] Basmalah: the phrase Bismillah’ir Raĥmaani’r Raĥeem. In the name of Allāh, the Most Beneficent, the Merciful.

Brush your teeth with a twig called miswaak. If you do not have a miswaak, use your forefinger to clean your teeth instead.

Then rinse your mouth three times, with a fresh handful of water each time. If you are not fasting, it is recommended to gargle as well.

Wash your nostrils three times; scoop water in your right hand and draw into the nostrils by breathing in; use your left hand to clean dried mucus from the nose or blow your nose to clean it.

 

 

Wash your face three times such that at least two drops of water should flow across every spot, all over the face. Wash the brows and folds in the skin, behind the eyelids, etc. The ‘face’ is the area from the forehead to the chin and from one ear to another. One should wash a little higher up from the forehead. It is necessary to pour water on the face – merely wiping the face does not suffice and if water is not poured on the face, one’s ablution will not be valid. 

Wash your face in this manner three times.

Wash both your arms from the fingertips up until the elbows, including the elbows such that not a hair’s breadth on the arms remains dry; otherwise the ablution will be incomplete. Wash the arms one after the other – wash the right arm thrice, and then the left arm thrice.

Wet your hands and perform masah (wipe) over your head (only) once as follows:

After moistening the hands, join the three fingers except the forefinger and the thumb; start from above the forehead [from the hairline] by pressing the joined fingers and wipe them straight across the head until the neck; then use your palms to touch the remaining portion [the sides] and wipe the head from the back to the forehead.  Then using the forefinger, wipe the inside of the outer ear, and using the thumb wipe the back of the ear; this is the method of wiping the ear. Wipe just the back of the neck, with the back of both hands.

Then wipe the front side of the outer ear with the forefingers and the back of the ear with the thumbs.

Then wipe the nape of the neck with the back of your fingers.

After wiping the head, with the remaining wetness of the hands, wipe the inside the ears with the index fingers, and the outside of the ears with the thumbs.

 

Wash both the feet including the ankles; wash each foot thrice, washing the right foot first and then the left. [It is recommended that one rubs the feet and the gaps between the toes to ensure that water flows properly].

There are 4 Obligatory Acts  in wudoo':

  1. To washing the face once -  the area of which is the from the hairline to just below the chin, and from earlobe to the other;
  2. To wash the arms up to and  including the elbows once;
  3. To wipe a quarter of the head;
  4. To washing the feet up to and including the ankles once.

There are no Necessary (Waajib) acts in Wudoo'

 

  1. Intention;
  2. Beginning the ablution with  the tasmiyah;
  3. To wash the hands up to and including the wrists;
  4. To perform siwaak (brush the teeth with a miswaak)
  5. To wash the mouth;
  6. To rinse the the nose;
  7. To pass the wet fingers through the beard (khilaal);
  8. To perform khilaal of the the fingers;
  9. To do each of the  three times;
  10. To wipe the whole head once;
  11. And to wipe the inside of the ears with the index fingers using the same water;
  12. To follow the order in which the parts should be washed;
  13. To wash each part  each part one after the other without pause, so no part dries up before the wudoo' is completed
  1. To begin with the right side;
  2. To wipe the back of the neck;
  3. To recite the transmitted supplications and invocations during wudoo';
  4. To stand, face the Qiblah and pray the following on completing the wudoo'
اَشْهَدُ اَنْ لَّاۤ اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللهُ وَحْدَهٗ لَا شَرِیْكَ لَهٗ وَ اَشْهَدُ اَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهٗ وَ رَسُوْلُهٗ ۝
اَللّٰهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِیْ مِنَ التَّوَّابِیْنَ وَ اجْعَلْنِیْ مِنَ الْمُتَطَهِّرِیْنَ۝
.سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ، أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ

 

  1. To perform wudoo' at an impure place;
  2. To perform ablution inside the mosque;
  3. For the used ablution water to spill back into the container that contains the ablution water;
  4. To spit out water or mucus etc. towards Qiblah;
  5. To talk about worldly matters.
  6. To waste water unnecessarily.
  7. To use so little water that all or some of the Sunan are  missed;
  8. To wash the face with only one hand;
  9. To splash water onto the face;
  10. To let ablution water splatter onto the clothing or inside the mosque;
  11. To miss any sunnah action of wudoo'.
  1. That which exits from the private parts (excretion, urinating, ejaculation, passing wind);
  2. Impure substances exiting from other than the private parts, if the impure substance flows from the point of exit;
  3. Vomiting the like of food and water if it is a mouthful.  The vomiting of any amount phlegm does not break the wudoo';
  4. Loss of consciousness;
  5. The onset of insanity;
  6. Intoxication;
  7. To fall asleep lying down or leaning on one of the buttocks.  Falling asleep while firmly seated (on both buttocks) or while in prayer does not break the wudoo'.
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