AL-AKHDHARI: The Book Of Ibadah Part 5: ACTS OF ABLUTION (MINOR PURIFICATION)

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*AL-AKHDHARI: The Book Of Ibadah*

*Part 5: ACTS OF ABLUTION

 (MINOR PURIFICATION)*

*THE OBLIGATORY (FARD) ACTS OF ABLUTION (WUDHU) ARE SEVEN:*

 1. The intention, 

2. Washing the face, 

3. Washing the hands up to the elbows, 

4. Wiping over the head (with wet hands),

5. Washing the feet 

up to the ankles,

6. Scrubbing (while washing) and 

7. Doing it fast. 

*THE NECESSARY (SUNNAH) ACTS OF ABLUTION ARE:*

1. ashing the hands up to the wrists at the beginning, 

2. Rinsing the 

mouth, 

3. Inhaling water into the nostrils and 

4. Exhaling,

5. Returning the wiping of the head, 

6. Wiping 

over the ears and 

7. Renewing water to do so and 

8. Doing the Obligatory acts in the prescribed 

order. 

*NOTE:* Whoever forgets to wash an Obligatory part of his limbs and remembers before long should then wash it and rewash all the parts that follow it. If however he remembers only after a long time, he should then wash it alone and repeat all Salaats he made before. If however, the part forgotten is Sunnah, it should be washed alone with no repetition of Salaat.

He who leaves a spot unwashed should wash only that area upon remembrance with intention (of Wudhu) and any Salaat done before that should be repeated. He who remembers having left out the rinsing of his mouth or the inhaling of water after already starting with the face should not go back to the forgotten parts until he finishes his ablution.

 

*THE LIKED (MUSTAHAB) ACTS OF ABLUTION ARE:*

1. Reciting the “Basmalah (Bismillāhir Rahmanir Rahīm)”

2. Tooth brushing (it is best with the traditional chewing stick before each ablution),

3. ashing the face 

and hands more than once,  

4. Beginning from the forehead when wiping over the head, 

4. Doing the Sunnah acts in the right order (see above),

5. Economising the use of water on the limbs,

6. Starting with the right before the left. 

*NOTE:* It is obligatory to wet in between the fingers while it is recommended to do the same with the toes. It is also obligatory to wet ones beard during ablution when it is lightly grown, not when it is thick. In ritual bath however, even thick beard must be thoroughly wet.

Whoever has doubts about impurity must renew his Wudhu unless it is a whispering coming from Shaytan in which case he need not do anything. 

The whole penis must be washed in case of the secretion of prostatic fluid but not the testicles. Prostatic fluid is the liquid secreted when aroused through fantasizing, lustful looks or the like.