ABOUT ABLUTION (WAZOO)
O Believers, when you wish to stand for prayer, then wash
your faces and your hands upto the elbows and pass your wet hands over your
heads and wash your feet upto the ankle. (Al-Ma’aida: 6)
THE METHOD OF ABLUTION
First of all
one should make himself clear (Paak) and form and have full attention of
getting virtue and recite Bismillah…..(In the Name of Allah, the Beneficient,
the Merciful). Then wash the hands upto the wrists three times. Then clean the
mouth brushing with Miswak or fingers and gargle with water three times. Then
rinse the nostrils thrice with water and clean the nose with left hand. Then he
should wash the face from the forehead to the chin bone and from ear to ear
three times and ensure that no place remains dry within that area of the face.
If he is bearded then he should perform Khalal (Make the beard wet fully so as
to clean all the hair by moving back side of fingers of left hand in them). Then
he should wash the right arm followed by left arm upto elbows three times. Then
he should make his hands wet with fresh water and do Masah i.e. brush up the
whole head with wet hands, pass the wet tips of the index finger inside and the
wet rips of the thumb outside the ears and pass over the other surface of the
hands over the nape and the sides of the neck. Then he should wash the feet
upto the ankles, the right foot first and then the left, taking care to wash in
between the toes, each three times. In this method of ablution, some acts are
obligatory (Farz), some are Sunnah while some are Mustahibat (More advisable).
