When is the performance of wudu’
Sunnah
?
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Among the instructions given by the holy Prophet
Muhammad [s] concerning cleanliness and purification
there are some like those appertaining to
Islinja’
,
Taharah
(cleanliness) of the body and dress, and puri-
ty and impurity of water that are of general application
and others which are related exclusively to
Salah
and
can be described as its pre-requisites. The command of
wudu’
belongs to the latter category. Allah declares in
the Holy Qur’an:
“When you rise up for prayer, wash your faces, and
your hands up to the elbows, and lightly rub your
heads and (wash) your feet up to the ankles.”
To be in a state of
wudu’
is, thus, an essential condition
of this unique form of presence in the Court of the
Almighty and of holding communion with Him.
Wudu’
has been described as the key of
Salah
showing that
just as no one can enter a locked house without open-
ing the lock with the key, so too it is not possible to gain
admission to
Salah
without
wudu’
.
Wudu’
is a neces-
sary condition of making
Salah
worthy of acceptance.
Since
Salah
is the highest form of presence before
Allah and of paying divine honours, respect and regard
for it would demand that the command to take a bath
and wear good, clean dress be given for every prayer-
service. But because this would have entailed much
hardship, Allah, in His infinite kindness, has enjoined
only this much that
Salah
should be offered in clean
PT
AN IMPORTANT
POINT TO
REMEMBER
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