- Sunnah "Optional" Wash both hands up to the wrists 1 or 3 times
- Sunnah "Optional" Wash mouth 1 or 3 times
- Sunnah "Optional" Sniffing water by nostrils and blowing it out 1 or 3 times
- Fard "Obligatory" Wash the face 1 or 3 times
- Fard "Obligatory" Wash both arms up to the elbows 1 or 3 times each starting with the right arm
- Fard "Obligatory" Wet your hands and wipe over your head starting from the front to the end of your head and back
- Sunnah "Optional" After finishing wiping the head, rub your ears with wet fingers
- Fard "Obligatory"Wash both feet up to and including the ankles starting with the right foot
Allah says in the Quran 5:6 (Interpretation of the meaning)
O ye who believe! when ye prepare for prayer, wash your faces, and your hands (and arms) to the elbows; Rub your heads (with water); and (wash) your feet to the ankles. If ye are in a state of ceremonial impurity, bathe your whole body. But if ye are ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from offices of nature, or ye have been in contact with women, and ye find no water, then take for yourselves clean sand or earth, and rub therewith your faces and hands, Allah doth not wish to place you in a difficulty, but to make you clean, and to complete his favour to you, that ye may be grateful.
