How to perform wudu according to the sunnah?
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Right way to do wudu as per sunnah
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no
person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah
Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the
seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter5 Surah
Maidah verse 6:
O you who have believed! When you rise to offer the
Salat, you must wash your faces and
hands and your arms up to the elbows,
and wipe your head with wet hands and wash your feet up to the ankles. And if you become unclean, cleanse yourself with a full bath. If,
however, you have
‘touched’ women and you can find no water, then cleanse yourselves with pure
dust. Strike your palms on it
and wipe your hands and faces with it. Allah does not will to make life
hard for you, but He wills to
purify you, and complete His
blessings upon you so that you may show gratitude.
The command of wudu is from the above
Aayah of Surah Maidah, and an obligatory
pre-condition for performing the prayers.
I saw Uthman (r.a.) performing ablution; he washed his hands thrice, rinsed his mouth and then washed his
nose, by putting water in it and then blowing it out, and washed his face
thrice, and then washed his right forearm up to the elbow thrice, and then the
left-forearm up to the elbow thrice, then smeared his head with water, washed
his right foot thrice, and then his left foot thrice and said, "I saw Allah's Messenger (saws)
performing ablution similar to my present ablution.”
Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 111 Narrated by
said: ‘If one is pleased to know the
method of performing ablution of the Messenger of Allah (saws), this is how he
(saws) did it.’
The scholars of Islam are unanimous in
their opinion from the Ayaah of the Quran and the Sunnah of the Messenger of
Allah (saws) that if one washes the required body parts in wudu even once or
twice, his wudu will be valid; but if he washes it thrice it
would be in accordance to the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saws).
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Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the
Only Source of Strength.
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Islam,
Burhan