The Issues:
Performing Wuḍūʿ: Making the Intention
Performing Wuḍūʿ: Completing the Actions in the Prescribed Order
Performing Wuḍūʿ: The Ruling on Continuity in the Steps
Performing Wuḍūʿ: The Sunnah of Running One’s Fingers Through the Beard When Performing Wudūʾ
Performing Wuḍūʿ: The Period of Time One is Allowed to Wipe Over One’s Socks
Performing Wuḍūʿ: The Ruling of Wiping Over Thin Socks and Those with Holes
Performing Wuḍūʾ: Rulings Related to Injuries
Performing Wūḍūʿ:The Wuḍūʾ of One Who Removes His Socks After Wiping Over Them
1. Performing Wūḍūʿ: Ma…
The General Impermissibility of Facing the Qiblah or Turning One’s Back to It When Answering the Call of Nature
It is ḥarām [according to the ḥanbalī madh`hab] to face the qiblah or turn one’s back to it [when answering the call of nature]. [The evidence for this] is the ḥadīth narrated by Abū Ayyūb (رضي الله عنه) that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
‘Do not face the qiblah or turn your backs to it while urinating or defecating. Rather, face the east or the west.’
Abū Ayyūb said: ‘When we came to al-Shām1, we found the lavatories built facing the Kaʿbah. So we used to turn away from them, and ask All…
The adoption of four characteristics protect a person from Shayṭān and his entry into the Fire becomes forbidden: The one who is able to exert control over himself in the face of desire, terror, lust, and anger.”
Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
[Ibn Rajab comments]: These four (characteristics) are the very foundations of evil in its entirety.
Desire
As for desire, it is for a soul to incline towards something under the supposition that thing offers the procurement of some benefit. Should a person desire something, this will drive him to seek out the object of his desire by any means necessary p…
