Lesson Eighteen
The Ablution
My dearest students; the prayers imposed on us by Allah (God), has its systematic laws and orders. He (glory to Him) who valued days and nights in that strict arrangement has also valued five times prayers in the day and night. The five prayers (link to God) in its time, its spiritual recitation and movements are totally for God. How can this prayer be performed rightly?
Start with ablution:
Firstly: The intention
The word intention means the preparation of the heart, by freeing it from distraction and directing it toward God by remembering Him, and His messenger "the prophet" (cpth).
Then start to perform the ablution.
Secondary: Ablution
My students, ablution must be done as explained by Allah and His prophet (cpth). Allah says: (Oh You who believe! When you intend to perform prayer (communication with God), wash your faces and wash your hands up to the elbows, rub your heads (by passing wet hands over), and wash your feet up to the ankles. If you are in the state of Janaba (after sexual discharge), purify your selves wholly. But if you are ill or on a journey, or any one of you answer the call of nature, or you have sexual intercourse with your wife, and you find no water, then perform Tayammamun (dry ablution) with earth. Rub your face and hands with. God does not want to place you in difficulty, but wants to purify you and complete his favour to you that you may be thankful) Fortress 5, Al-Ma’idah, verse 6. That is how it is supposed to be done and as in detail explained by the prophet (cpth).
Firstly: Wash your two hands with clean water up to the wrist three times.
Secondly: Rinse out the mouth with water three times, Breath water in and out of the nose and clean it with your finger three times, and wash the face three times.
Thirdly: Wash the arms up to the elbows three times.
Fourthly: Wipe the head from fore head to the back with water one time.
Fifthly: Wipe the neck and the ears one time
Sixthly: Wash the two feet up to the ankle three times. Remember to wash between them too
Why do we make ablution?
Students, do you know why we make ablution with clean water before prayers? I will answer you in briefly, the reason of washing the face, hands, feet, etc..is to make you active and ready for worship. God pours life in water as we cannot live without water; we have to activate our spirit with it through the ablution. These parts of the body that we wash before praying have the ends of the sense nerves. Which nobody knows their number except Allah. This water stimulates them activating the body therefore the spirit becomes awake and fresh for proper communication with our Provider the Almighty Al’lah.
The aim of the ablution is activation:
Prayer needs perfect concentration because the one who prays recites the words of God. So he has to be awake to understand what he recites, but if he is lazy and sluggish he can never understand anything because sluggishness will negatively affect the spirit. So God commands ablution so as to activate the body and mind for better understanding of His words. The lazy and the sluggish one benefit nothing in prayer (communication),While the active one is more powerful because of the ablution. From this point we understand why God commands a believer to perform ablution before all prayers.
It’s very important to ease yourself before ablution if you feel as to do so because it’s not good for a person to be at stresses, during prayers. He has to be pure by body, dress and the place of prayer this cleanliness should be done all the time not only during prayer.
The nullifications of ablution
Ablution is compulsory before all prayers for the activation of the body so as the spirit. If you want to guide your ablution for more than one prayer, you have to ease yourself very well before the prayer as earlier said by entering the toilet if need be. The following are some compulsory nullifications of ablution and you have to make new ablution b efore prayer if there is one case or more:
1. If someone eases himself "going to toilet" or break wind.
2. Vomiting and blood flow.
3. Sleeping or slumbering because at this state a man becomes sluggish so he has to reactivate himself.