Wuḍū’

The intention is in the heart and is not spoken. Deeds are only by intentions, and every man has what he intended.

To the wrists, working the water between the fingers. He ﷺ would begin with the right. Sunnah, and the opening of the whole act — and one who wakes from sleep washes them before putting a hand in the vessel.

From a single handful — water to the mouth, then drawn up into the nose and blown out with the left hand. Be thorough in it, unless you are fasting.

From the hairline to beneath the chin, from ear to ear. A thick beard is wiped and its hair let through the fingers. The water must reach every part — a single dry spot leaves the wuḍūʾ incomplete. Obligatory.

The elbow is included, not stopped at. Remove a ring or turn it so the water passes beneath. Obligatory.

With wet hands from the front of the head to the back and returned to the front; then the index fingers inside the ears and the thumbs behind them. One wiping only.

The ankles included, the water worked between the toes, the heels not left dry. Woe to the heels from the Fire, he ﷺ said, seeing men whose heels were untouched by water.

Whoever says this, the eight gates of the Garden are opened for him and he enters by whichever he wishes.

None guards his wuḍūʾ but a believer. Several prayers may be prayed with one wuḍūʾ, as he ﷺ did on the day of the conquest; yet whoever performs wuḍūʾ upon wuḍūʾ has ten good deeds written for him.

Water is not to be wasted, though you stand at a running river.