Allah also says: {Indeed, Allah loves those who are constantly repentant and loves those who purify themselves.} [Ch. 2, Verse 222]
The Prophet (pbuh) said: "Perform ablution like this ablution of mine."
Given the significance of the prayer, Allah ordained purification before it and rendered this a requirement for its validity and a prelude to its performance. Consciousness of the great merit of purification makes the heart yearn to perform prayer. The Prophet (pbuh) said: "Purification is half of faith... and prayer is light."
He (pbuh) also said: "If a person performs ablution perfectly, his sins exit his body."
So, the servant turns to his Lord with physical purification by ablution and moral purification by the performance of this worship, being sincere to Him and following the example of His Prophet (pbuh).
When ablution is due:
1. Prayer, be it obligatory or supererogatory.
2. Tawāf around the Ka'bah.
3. Touching the Mus'haf (a copy of the Qur'an).
I perform ablution (Wudu') and ritual bath (Ghusl) with purifying water.
Purifying water is any water that falls from the sky or springs from the earth and remains in its original state without a change to any of its three characteristics: color, taste, and smell; by one of them the state of purity of water is interrupted.
I learn Wudu' (Minor Ablution)
Step 1: Making Niyyah (intention) in the heart. Niyyah refers to the resolve in the heart to perform the worship in order to get close to Allah.
Step 2: Washing the two hands up to the wrists.
Step 3: Rinsing the mouth (Madmadah)
Rinsing the mouth: means to let water into the mouth and swirl it inside then spit it out.
Step 4: Sniffing water into the nostrils (Istinshāq)
Istinshāq is to sniff water deep inside the nose.
Then Istinthār, which is to blow out what is in the nose of mucus and otherwise.
Step 5: Washing the face
Face boundaries:
The face: the part of the body with which "facing" is achieved.
Facial boundary widthwise: from one ear to the other ear.
Facial boundary lengthwise: from the usual hairline on the forehead down to the end of the chin.
Washing the face includes all the light hair on it, including the Bayād and 'Adhār.
Bayād is the area between the 'Adhār and the earlobe.
'Adhār is the hair on the tragus (cartilaginous flap) that partially covers the ear opening.
Washing the face also includes the outward thick hair of the beard and the part hanging downward.
Step 6: Washing the hands, from the fingertips to the elbows.
Washing the elbows is included in the obligatory washing of the hands.
Step 7: Passing the wet hands over the head and the ears once.
One starts at the hairline and moves his hands back to the nape and then all the way back.
He then inserts his index fingers inside his ears
while passing his thumbs over the back of his ears, thus wiping the front and back of the ear.
Step 8: Washing the feet from the toes up to the ankles, given that washing the ankles is included in the obligatory washing of the feet.
The heels are the two protruding bones at the lower part of the leg.
Ablution gets invalidated by the following:
1. What comes out of the two passages, like urine, excrement, wind, semen, and pre-seminal fluid.
2. The absence of mind through deep sleep, fainting, intoxication, or insanity.
3. All that entails ritual bath, like sexual impurity, menstruation, and postpartum bleeding.
When a person answers the call of nature, he is required to remove the impurity either by pure water, which is better, or by something else that can be used for this purpose, like stones, papers, cloth, or similar things, provided that this is done by wiping three times or more and using something pure and lawful.