Why refresh your wudu for every prayer?

Alhamdulillah.

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Foreign.

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We are picking up where we left off in the book of purification, the chapter of U and the subchapter regarding the occasions, the times, the instances in which it is preferred that a person make wudoo. We mentioned before in order to do three things or a person must make wudoo for three things for salah for for handling the mus. But then there are many other things in which it is preferred that a person have woo for and thus far the author has mentioned five of these things or we've gone through five of these things in detail. However, he mentions nine altogether. The sixth instance in which it is preferred that a person make the author says that it is preferred encouraged highly encouraged that a person make for each salah. And this actually used to be obligatory at the beginning and the early stages of revelation or when the verse was revealed. The sixth verse of surah Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says for.

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So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says in the verse of wudoo, if you wish to pray then make wudoo. This clearly articulates that it is obligatory and so it was it was obligatory. But then later in the conquest of Mecca, some scholars cite the conquest of Mecca as being the time when the ruling of obligation was abregated. It was abregated and it was relieved from being obligatory to being preferred. Being preferred. Why does this happen? Why does it happen that something would be obligatory at first and then later made only preferred and not and no longer obligatory. This is there is a lot of wisdom in the obligations that Allah subhanahu wa tala has set and then later relieved to preferred things and that is that he is he is teaching and cultivating an entire generation most of them older men right especially in the early days of Islam is were the big adults and the older men and so forth that were really embracing Islam, right? And the younger men were entering into Islam. And so to teach that discipline and in order to arrive at the place where Allah wanted to see them, he commanded them with that which was more intense than what he initially desired ultimately. So he commands them with that which is obligatory and then once they take to the obligation he later he later reduces it to something that is preferred right and this is to teach discipline and to build good habits. If a person wants to start a new habit they have to treat that habit as if it is obligatory. It is obligatory until the habit sets and takes and then after that the person can you know can fall short of the habit when necessary. But making wudoo for each salah was originally that is the way that it was originally set is that you wanted to make salah. You begin with making wudoo and then you stand for salah. later that was reduced to. You don't have to make woo as long as you haven't broken your woo. But it is highly preferred, highly encouraged that you make woo for each salah.

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We will do inch.

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Wasam. foral.

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I'm done.

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And so he tells us that the prophet sallallam's action and his habit was that he would always make wudoo for each salah always. He would always make woo for each salah. And so on the day of the conquest of Mecca, the prophet sallall.aii Wasam made and he wiped over his leather his leather footwear and then he made all of the prayers of that day in with the same wuboo with the same wuboo. And so Alma said to him, "Oh messenger of Allah, you did something today that you've never I've never seen you do that you did not practice before." Commenting about his praying all the prayers with one and the prophet sallall.aii wasallam said, "I did that on purpose." Meaning I did it purposely. I did it very deliberately to articulate what Om just learned and that is that the obligation has been relaxed to the status of highly encouraged. Highly encouraged. So what do we understand from this? We understand from this that if we were to really look at the sunnah, we would we could probably put a percentage on it and we could say 95 maybe even 97 or 98% of the time he would make for each even in travel. Now notice that Omar is saying I've never seen you do this before. Even in travel, he's never seen him do this before, right? And in travel, if there's any time when a person would have the need to make more than one salah with each wool would be during travel at that time. Water is limited, right? However, he would always make wudoo for each salah. Meaning that that's really the way it is supposed to be. However, very very seldomly was he narrated to have made wudoo made multiple prayers on the same wudoo. So this articulates that the overwhelming amount of narrations that articulate his sunnah would be that he would make wudoo for each salah and sometimes he would make multiple salas on one wudoo but that was the exception to the rule. Usually he would time for salah. There is a ritual for salah. And why is that? Why why make wudoo for each salah when we already have wudoo? Well, it's not just about the state of being which is a state of spiritual purity. When a person has wudoo, that's not the only reason and benefit of making wudoo. One of the points of making wuboo is that it expedates sins that have been committed with the body parts, the eyes, the face. The prophet sallall.aii alaihi wasallam tells us that when a person makes woo and washes his face the sins that he observed with his eyes all are expedated with the lap last drips of water that drip from his face and likewise his hands and likewise his feet etc. Another reason is to prepare oneself for salah. Because if a person has no has no practice or no prerequisite to salah, they go from whatever it is that they're doing and then suddenly go into making salah. That contrast very rarely is a person's mind just like a switch that you can be dealing with work or dealing with whatever it is and then just by saying Allahbar immediately you just switch off that thing that you were doing and now you are all in on salah. That's very very rare that a person has the discipline to do that. Most of the time when a person makes and starts to pray the first or first half they're still on the gear of whatever it is that they were doing before they started praying. And so if you jump straight into salah, you will lose that first amount of prayer because how much of your salah do you actually keep and are you actually rewarded for? How much of it? How much of it? Whatever you whatever you're there for, whatever you're present for, you only get of your salah what you comprehended. The rest you lost. And this is why the prophet sallall.aii wasallam said a person may make salah. Some people will make salah and they have all of the salah. Some only walk away with 9/10. Some only walk away with 8/10. Some only walk away with 7/10. Right? And he continued sixth and five and four and three and two and some people walk away with not nothing of their salah because the whole salah they were elsewhere. That's all you get from your prayer. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is only going to give you of his attention what you give him as of yours. He's not going to give you full attention while you give him none or partial attention. And so you notice that there is a buffer, a cushion between the actual obligation of salah and the preparations for salah, right? We look at the preparations. The preparations are you you make you make after the you listen to the you say what the says and then you're encouraged to brush your teeth and then you're encouraged to make woo and then you're encouraged to make this after woo and then you're encouraged to make for and then you're encouraged to make the sunnah for the salah and sunnah for entering the masid. All of this is to buffer and to get your mind into the salah so that when the prayer actually begins, you're present for it from the beginning. That's the idea. And so this is another buffer for that also to expedate one's sins before he enters into salah. There's many many many benefits of making mudoo for each.

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