This week since we were learning about worship: salah and du'a, I thought it would be a good idea to read, "Prayer according to the Sunnah."
I read about Ghusul (bath). I learned that when a person reaches the age of maturity, they must bathe on Fridays. Even if one has showered during other days of the week, taking a bath on Friday is obligatory. This was the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w).
I also realized that I should be careful while making wudu. Wasting water or washing oneself more than three times is unjust and unnecessary. Making wudu is a good thing but wasting water in the process and staying in the bathroom for too long is actually wrong. Moreover, I learned the du'a after making wudu. One who supplicates with the words after wudu. Anyone who makes this du'a after wudu will enter Jannah from any of its eight doors.
From the book I absorbed that it is important that there should be no pictures on the clothes we are wearing while praying. Personally I have experienced this that when I pray wearing a colourful dress or on a decorative prayer mat, I easily get distracted and forget what I am reciting.
Huma - Grade 5
Du'a after wudu:
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سُبْحَانَكَ اللَّهُمَّ وَبِحَمْدِكَ، أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ، أَسْتَغْفِرُكَ وَأَتُوبُ إِلَيْكَ
I bear witness that none has the right to be worshiped but Allah alone, Who has no partner; and I bear witness that Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger (s.a.w)
Glory is to You, O Allah, and praise; I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to You in repentance.
اللَّهُمَّ اجْعَلْنِي مِنَ التَّوَّابِينَ وَاجْعَلْنِي مِنَ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ
O Allah, make me among those who turn to You in repentance, and make me among those who are purified - aameen