O believers! When you rise up for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads, and wash your feet to the ankles.
Quran([5:6](https://quran.com/al-maidah/6))

Definitions

  • linguistic - wudu is beauty, excellence and cleanliness
  • legal - ceremonial purification obtained with water that includes the washing face, arms and feet and the wiping of the head with the palms and fingers.
  • wadu - the name of the water that is used to perform wudu to remove a state of minor ritual impurity (hadath)

Importance

  • Salah is fard for Salat. Salat is not valid without wudu.
  • Touching the Quran without wudu is not allowed (Wajib)
  • For performing Tawaf (wajib)
  • A person is the state of wudu all the time is worthy of reward and elevation of rank in the hereafter - for radiance and glow on the day judgement day
  • The way of wudu is specific to this ummah, but also previous ummah for e,g, Sara the wife of Ibrahim performed wudu and prayed, when she was put in a difficult situation
  • protection from the whispering against the shaitan

Essentials (Arkan) of wudu Prerequisites (shurut) of ablution Traditions of ablution Etiquettes of ablution

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