Islamic Prayer: Purity (Taharah & Ghusl)

• Prayer (Salah) is performed five times daily to remember Allah and seek His blessings.

Purity

• Cleanliness is crucial for prayer, involving both physical purity and purity of clothes and the prayer place.
• Quran emphasizes cleanliness, stating Allah loves those who turn to Him and care for cleanliness (2:222).
• Taharah refers to bodily cleanliness.
• Ghusl (bath) is a full body wash.
• Wudhu (ablution) involves washing specific body parts.
• Tayammum (dry ablution) serves as an alternative in unusual circumstances.

Ghusl (Purity from Major Impurity)

• Needed because of marital relations, wet dreams, menstruation, or childbirth. Must be carried our by washing the entire body.
• Niyah (Intention) must be made to purify from major impurities, then wash hands up to wrists.
• Remove any physical impurities before proceeding.
• Wudhu (Ablution) is Sunnah except for gargling and sniffing water into nostrils, which are obligatory for Ghusl.
• Gargle three times, ensuring water reaches the throat, and sniff water into the nostrils three times.
• Entire body must be washed thrice, starting from head to feet, ensuring no part remains dry, and water reaches hair roots.
• Intention, gargling, sniffing, and pouring water are obligatory steps; missing any renders Ghusl void.

Wudhu (Purity from Minor Impurity)

• It is essential before prayer and removes minor impurities from natural discharges, bleeding, vomiting, or falling asleep.
• Niyah (intention) is made by reciting Tasmiya.
• Wash hands up to the wrists, rinse mouth thoroughly three times.
• Sniff water into nostrils three times, wash the nose tip, and wash the face three times from ear to ear and forehead to chin.
• Right arm washed to the elbow 3 times, followed by the left arm
• Wet palms moved starting at top of forehead, to the back of the head to the neck
• Wet fingers are rubbed into the grooves of both ears, wet thumbs passed behind the ears, before passing the rest of the fingers over the nape

Tayammum (Purity from Major and Minor Impurity)

• Alternative to Ghusl or Wudhu under specific conditions, must be done under purity such conditions

• Use Tasmiya and intend to perform Tayammum for purity

• Lightly put hands on clean earth or sand, with dust on it.

• Blow off excessive dust, and face is wiped once just like Wudhu

• Repeat hand placement and blow off the dust, wipe right to the elbow with left and vice versa

• Wudhu-voiding actions also void Tayammum

• If Tayammum is done for illness, it's void when the illness is over, or water is available if you did Tayammum because water was gone.

Adhan

• Adhan calls Muslims to prayer, initiated by Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in Madinah.
• Essential wherever Muslims offer obligatory prayers.
• Muezzin (caller) delivers Adhan while standing in the Minaret, facing Qiblah with forefingers in ears.
• Proclaimed loudly, stretching words.
• On "Hayya Ala! Salah" and "Hayya Ala! Falah," the Muezzin turns face right and left.
• Approximately 15 minutes before obligatory prayers.

Iqamah

• Another call to prayer right before congregational prayer.
• Said just before prayer when Muslims stand in rows behind the Imam.
• Identical to Adhan, but adds "Qad Qamatis Salah" after "Hayya Ala! Falah."
• Muezzin doesn't raise hands to ears or turn face during Iqamah.
• Recited briskly in a normal voice.

Prayer Times

• Five obligatory daily prayers.
• Fajar: From dawn break until sunrise.
• Zuhar: From sun decline until shadow doubles in size.
• Asar: From shadow doubling until sunset.
• Maghrib: From sunset until twilight disappears.
• Isha: From twilight disappearance until midnight.
• These prayers are ordained, binding on every sane believer within fixed hours and must be offered daily preferably in congregation
• Fajr Prayer:
  • First prayer
  • Start with the break of dawn and end before sunrise
  • Muslims must offer 2 units of Sunnah and 2 units of Fardh
• Zuhr Prayer:
  • Starts minutes after the sun declines
  • Call Zawal
  • It prohibited to offer any prayer
  • 4 units of Sunnah and 4 units of Fardh
• Asar Prayer:
  • Stars from the end of Zuhr prayer
  • Muslim offer 4 of Fardh and 4 options of Sunnah
  • Like Zawal, time cannot be said at a setting sun
• Maghrib Prayer
  • Starts after Sunet and ends at the fading of midnight
  • Muslims offer 3 units of Fardh followed by 2 units of Sunnah and 2 of Nafil
• Isha Prayer
  • Starts at the fanding light to Maghrib
  • Ends at Dawn
  • Should before the midnight, offerd before breaking of the dawn
  • 4 Sunnah, 4 Fardh, 2 Nafil and 3 Wit
• Should be performed during set hours

Conditions for Prayer (Salah)

• Salah is the second pillar of Islam, obligatory for Muslims.

Preparing for Prayer

• Clothes must be clean, pure, and covering Sattar (prescribed body area), and free from impurities.

Qiblah & Niyah

• Face Qiblah (direction of Makkah) for mental orientation and unity.
• Make Niyah (intention) after purity and direction is correct.

Method of Prayer (Salah)

• Stand upright facing Qiblah.

• Raise hands, lining with ears, recite Takbir-e-Tahrima "Allahu Akbar".

• Fold hands on navel, right over left with right thumb.

• While standing with hands on navel, is called Qiyam.

• Recite Sana.

• Fatiha, ending with "Amin".

• Reciite any verse from the Quran

• Say Takbir (Allah Akbar) and perform Ruku, placing hands on knees and recite "Subhana Rabbiyal Azim" thrice.

• Stand straight by reciting "Sami Allahu Liman Hamidah" briefly and reciting "Rabbana Lakal Ham" to stand

• After standing with reciting, prostate on the foor on prayer, Face shoudl between the palm

• The precribed prayers is followed according to the Quran and it is important to follow every step to be in accepted

• Personal praise however can be done as much and anywhere but in the proscribed order and not important if performed or need to be missed

• Followed due to tiredness

Conditions of Prayer

• Certain rules that must be followed before a prayer can be done

• Regular prayer follows the Quran vs personal is okay in a format told by Prophet

• Praying is Obligtaory, but personal prayer is vountarily

• In personal you can ask for anything but in Salah is only praising Allah

• The body has to be fully purified in Salah but not important in personal

• Important to do daily Salah than personal. -Express you gratitude to Allah, show humbleness and to His Will

• Congregationa prayer is act in the divide order

  • act upon the prayer with others
    • "establish regular prayer"

Benefits

• People sharing the same thing is very important, everyone on the same line

  • People sharing the prayer brings unity and equality

• Friday and Eld prayers follow a certian format per event

Friday Congregational Prayer

• Friday prayers and cannot be performed alone with the people in a group is compensated as you the Zuhr prayer that is offerd

• In place to have the Zuhr prayer perform -Muslim take action to have to clean and smell good

  • white are the best thing to wear on a Friday

• Try and give your best to the prayer

  • All Muslim need to gather at the same spot to start prayer immediatley

• Follow the steps - First adnan Muslims try to get ready - 2Adhana is made before Semons started - 2 semons is started with short pause inbetween

• The sermon as for Allah for his bless and teaching of Quran and Sunnnah - Muslim listens to the sermon and get ready for prayer and make a stragight line

• All must listen and follow the prayer and after muslim offer their sunnah

• Impoprtant that it is to be made due the fact of the the importance of the belivers that they follow is

EID prayer

• 2 festival Muslim has a year

  (prepare) -The two festival is Eid ul Fit and ul Azha which stand ffor happiness

• Eid Ul fatis celebrated shawwal follower the mont of Ramdan and for the giving of Blessed Ramadan and blessing to give during it

• Eld UI AZha those Muslim that did not preform in MAJOR PILGRIMENT - Celebrated slaughtering animals and giving to the less fortunate while remember hzrat Ibrahim and making to

• onboth occassion prayers are set to be followed

  • This prayers are set for adults and and exempt of those that are children or woman and slaves - Set timing of prayers

• Cannot be offered alone It can't be compacted as you missed it

To have the set prayers Muslim try to take bath and use Fragrance

• MUlsim following the way with having their body clean - As Eid is a celebration they try to express it and wear New clothes and be happy

• Follow through steps from being at open area - Take meals and try to be there and show the Sunnah way!

• They follow Allah

• 3rd crred Takihr al Tashaere (allahu Akbar) At the end for the congregation The is is perform by Muslim twice out of the year. Muslim will intned to preform with an six addtionat

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