Miftah-ul-Janna (Booklet for way to Paradise)

person with an ’udhr, (which is explained in the last six paragraphs
of the third chapter of the fourth fascicle of Endless Bliss.)
SUNNATS OF AN ABLUTION: Twenty-five of them have
been stated.
1– To say, “A’ûdhu... .” (Its complete form is: “A’ûdhu bllâhimin-esh-shaytân-ir-rajîm.”
2– To say the Basmala. (That is, to say, “Bismillâh-ir-Rahmânir-Rahîm.”)
3– To wash the hands.
4– To make khilâl between the fingers, (i.e. to wash between
them by using the fingers of one of your hands like the teeth of a
comb between the fingers of your other hand.)
5– To apply water into your mouth.
6– To apply water into your nose.
7– To make a niyyat (intention). In the Hanafî Madhhab, it is
sunnat, not farz, to make a niyyat when washing the mouth. It is
farz in the Shâfi’î Madhhab. In the Mâlikî Madhhab, it is farz to
make a niyyat when washing the hands.
8– To face in the direction of Qibla.
9– To make khilâl of your beard (by using your fingers like a
comb) [if it is thick].
10– To make masah on your beard.
11– To begin with your right hand side.
12– To make khilâl between the toes with the small finger of
the left hand, beginning from under the small toe of the right foot.
13– To make masah on the head–by covering the (entire) head.
14– To make masah of the ears and the back of the head, using
the water remaining from the head.
15– To observe tertîb, (i.e. to wash the limbs of ablution in
prescribed order.)
16– Not to pause in beween, i.e. to wash the limbs of ablution
one directly after another.
17– When making masah on the head, to begin with the front
part.
18– To use a miswâk.
19– To make water reach the sides of the eyes and the
eyebrows.
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