Ablution or Wudu is the act of washing those parts of the body, which are generally exposed and private unexposed parts and are therefore unclean. It is performed in the following manner:  Make sure that the water with which you perform Ablution is pure, clean and fresh (not used before) its colour, taste and smell are unchanged. Have the full intention of performing the Ablution for offering Salaat. Start the procedure by declaring "In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful" with the belief and power of these divine words, Allah who has built in water the quality to get rid of impurity, will clean your body. Repeat this declaration while washing every part of your body.  Wash excreta and urine from private parts thoroughly after using toilet when necessary.  Wash hands up to the wrists three times, passing the fingers in between each other.  Then clean mouth with brush or finger and gargle with water three times. Rinse the nostrils thrice with water. Each time take in water up to nose bone with right hand palm full. Blow out water through the nose; use left hand for cleaning out expectoration each time. Wash the face from the forehead to the chin bone and from ear to ear three times. Use wet fingers through the beard to wet the face-skin. Wash the right arm followed by the left up to the elbows three times. Take the cap off. Brush up the whole head with wet hands, pass the wet tips of the index finger inside and the wet tips of the thumb outside the ears, and pass over the outer surface of the backs of hands over the nape and the sides of the neck. Wash the feet up to the ankles, the right foot first and then the left, taking care to wash in between the toes, each three times. Use only left hand to wash both the feet. Use little finger of left hand. Start from right small toe and work between toes up to the right toe thumb. Then from left toe thumb between toes with left-hand clean up to left small toe last. Make sure no part of any foot remains dry.

This information has been provided by brother Jarullah an Afghan student in Toronto.

Abbreviations used throughout:
S.W.T. - Subhanaho Wata'ala - Glorified be to Him Most High
S.A.W. - Sâllâl- laho Alâyhî Wâsâllâm - May Allah's peace and Blessings be upon him.

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