✓ Each part to be washed during wuḍū has its own duʿā or “thought”
✓ Wash parts 3 times, unless there are water shortages or other difficult circumstance
✓ Avoid uttering aloud the Names of Allah whilst in the lavatory
- Hands
O my Lord, truly I ask You for goodness and blessings, and seek refuge in You from badness and loss. - Mouth
O my Lord, help me with the reading of Your Book, and much remembrance of You, and establish me in strength “with the word that stands firm, in the life of this world and in the Hereafter”.¹ - Nose
Drawing water in:
O Lord, let me smell the fragrance of Paradise, and may You be pleased with me.
Blowing out:
O my Lord, I seek refuge in You from the foul odors of the Fire and from the evil of that abode. - Face
O my Lord, Make radiant my face with Your light on the Day You make radiant the faces of Your friends. Do not shroud my face with darkness on the Day you shroud the faces of Your enemies with darkness. - Arms
Right arm:
O Allah, give me my book of deeds in my right hand and judge me leniently.
Left arm:
O Allah, verily I seek refuge with You from You giving me my book of deeds in my left hand or from behind my back. - Head
O Allah, shower over me Your mercy, and rain down on me Your blessing, and shade me in the shade of Your Throne on the Day when there will be no shade but Your shade. O Allah, make my hair and the skin of my face forbidden to the Fire. - Ears
O Allah, Make me of those who listen to the Word and take in in the best way. O Allah, let me, with the obedient ones, hear the Caller to Heaven.² - Feet
Right foot:
O my Lord, make my feet firm on the ṣirāṭ on the Day that feet slip and fall into the Fire.
Left Foot:
O my Lord, I seek refuge in You from my foot slipping on the ṣirāṭ on the Day that slip the feet of the hypocrites.
Footnotes
1. This refers to the shahāda, and to the answers to the questions that will be asked of one in the next life regarding who one’s Lord and one’s prophet is.
2. There will be an angel who invites the successful persons into Paradise.