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Contact with najis things brings a Muslim into a state of ritual impurity (Arabic: نجاسة najāsa, in opposition to ṭahārah, ritual purity). Ritual purification is then required before religious duties such as regular prayers are performed.
The fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is based on admonitions in the Quran for Muslims to be ritually clean whenever possible, [citation needed] as well as in hadith literature (words, actions, or habits of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). Cleanliness is an important part of Islam, including Quranic verses that teach how to achieve ritual cleanliness.
Tayammum (Arabic: تيمم) is an Arabic word that means an aim or purpose. [1] Tayammum is derived from "amma," meaning 'to repair.' [2] In Islamic law, Tayammum means to wipe the face and hands of a person with the purpose of purification for prayer by using soil, purified sand, or dust.
In the early Muslim era, prayers were counted on fingers or with pebbles. According to the 17th-century Shia cleric ʻAllāmah Muhammad Baqir Majlisi, after the 625CE Battle of Uḥud, Fāṭimah (the daughter of Muhammad) would visit the Martyrs' graveyard every two or three days, and then made a misbaḥah of Ḥamzah ibn ʻAbd al-Muṭṭalib's grave-soil.
A Muslim may not converse, eat, or do things that are otherwise halal after the Takbirat al-Ihram. A Muslim must keep their vision low during prayer, looking at the place where their face will contact the ground during prostration. [34] [35] [36] A prayer may be said before the recitation of the Quran commences.
When you rise up for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads, and wash your feet up to the ankles. And if you are in a state of full impurity, then take a full bath. But if you are ill, on a journey, or have relieved yourselves, or have been intimate with your wives and cannot find water, then purify yourselves ...
Holy Du'ā (archaically transliterated Doowa) [1] is the mandatory Nizari Isma'ili prayer recited three times a day: Fajr prayer at dawn, Maghrib prayer at sundown and Isha prayer in the evening. Each Holy Du'a consists of 6 rakat , totaling 18 per day, as opposed to the 17 of Sunni and Twelver salat ( namaz ).
An Indonesian Muslim man doing dua. Muslims regard dua as a profound act of worship. Muhammad is reported to have said, "Dua is itself a worship." [3] [4]There is a special emphasis on du'a in Muslim spirituality and early Muslims took great care to record the supplications of Muhammad and his family and transmit them to subsequent generations. [5]