Wudu Flashcards
What does Tirmidhi say about wudhu?
The key to Jannah is Salah and the key to Salah is wudhu”
Tirmidhi
What does Abu dawud book say about conditions for salah?
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The key of prayer is purification; takbir makes (all acts which break prayer) unlawful and taslim (uttering the salutation) makes (all such acts) lawful.
Abu Dawud
Give 2 virtues of wudhu
Verily, my Ummah will be called on the Day of Resurrection as brightly
radiant from the traces of wudhu. Whoever among you is able to extend
his radiance, let him do so.”
Sahih Bukhari
When a Muslim or a believer washes his face (in wudhu), every sin he contemplated with his eyes, will be washed away from his face along with water, or with the last drop of water; when he washes his hands, every sin they wrought will be wiped away from his hands with the water, or with the last drop of water; and when he washes his feet, every sin towards which his feet have walked will be washed away with the water or with the last drop of water with the result that he comes out pure from all sins. (Sahih Muslim)
What does Fara’idh mean?
Obligatory actions of Wudhu
What does Adab/Mustahab mean?
Etiquettes/ Mustahabaat
(preferred actions) of Wudhu
What does Makroohaat mean?
Disliked actions of wudhu
What are the Fara’idh actions of wudhu?
These are the obligatory actions:
- Washing face (top of forehead to bottom of chin, earlobe to earlobe)
- Washing hands (up to and including elbows)
- Wiping of the head (one-fourth)
- Washing feet (up to and including ankles)
Give the reference in the Quran of Fara’idh Actions of Wudhu
Surah maidah verse 6
O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles.”
What are the sunnah actions of wudhu
- Making Niyyah (intention)
- Reciting Bismillah
- Washing hands up to wrists
- Rinsing mouth
- Rinsing nose
- Using the miswaak
- Wiping entire head
- Washing every limb three times
- Wiping the ears together
- Performing khilal of the fingers and toes
- Performing khilal of the beard
- Performing wudhu in order
- Performing a continuous wudh
What are the Adab/Mustahabaat of wudhu?
● Starting with the right limb before the left
● Wiping the nape (back of neck)
● Sitting in a raised place
● Facing the Qiblah
● Avoiding water from wudhu to spash one’s body/clothes
● Reciting bismillah, masnun du’as, the testimony of faith and salawat
upon washing or wiping each limb
● During rising one’s mouth and nose, using the right hand for water and
using the left for cleaning the nose
● Moving items e.g. watch/ring/bracelet to allow for water to reach skin
● Rubbing the limbs during washing
● Use one ﻣد (approximately 688ml) of water
● Using left hand to wipe over feet whilst using right hand to pour water
over
● Drinking leftover wudhu water while standing up
● Reciting testimony of faith and manun du’a upon completion
● Performing 2 rak’ahs tahiyyah al-wudhu
● Refreshing wudhu for each salat
Disliked actions of wudhu
- Using someone’s help to do wudhu
- Speaking about worldly matters
- Israf of water
- Using too little water when washing
- Washing limbs more than three times
- Striking the face with water when washing the face
- Tightly closing the eyes or mouth when washing face
- Performing Wudhu again before one has invalidated it or performed an act of worship
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Nulifiers of wudhu
- Anything exiting from the two openings
- When the two genital parts come into contact without a barrier
- Any najasah (Blood, pus, irregular watery liquid (i.e. not mucus or spit)
exiting from the body - Vomit (mouthful)
- Sleeping – whilst reclining
- Fainting/Unconsciousness
- Insanity
- Drunkenness/being ‘high’/intoxicated
- Laughing in Salah (one which has ruku and sujood in it).
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When is wudhu required (FARD)
Salah
Touching the Qur’an/Ayahs on a non-Mushaf
When is wudhu required- wajib
When doing tawaf
When is wudhu required (mustahab)
- Sleeping
● Beginning ghusl
● After waking up
● Touching any revered text
● Renewing wudhu for another salat
● After sin
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