Questions on Wudu

Maryah wrote: Sr Angie, I have the feeling that you are a Muslim Mormon....If you didnt have the marriage you have you would revert. Blessings to you sister.

  You aren't the first to have said this, a man from Morocco told me I'm Muslim, I just haven't admitted it yet.  But, seriously, I love my Church, I would have a hard time reconciling by beliefs with Islam.  Instead, I choose to take the truths I have found in Islam and add them to my beliefs.  Thanks Maryah.

Bismillah,

Alaykum Assalaam.  Thank you for asking, Sister MM.  I have been having a good week, Al-Hamdulilah.  My baby turned 20 yesterday!  How are you?

Sisters line up chairs in the back part of one mosque where there is no carpet to sit during lectures or prayer if they do not have ghusl and say things like:  Ana mush maghsul, I don't have ghusl, or:  Alayee Dowree, I have my period, when you ask why they are not on the carpet.

In another mosque I have been in where the whole room is carpted they line up on the stairwell to hear the khutbah when they don't have ghusl or have their periods.

Bismillah,

Concerning the mosque v the Islamic Center, some people dislike others to walk onto the prayer area without ghusl.  I don't know the rule on this however, but I have seen this behavior.

�O you who believe! When you intend to offer As-Salaah (the prayer), wash your faces and your hands (forearms) up to the elbows, rub (by passing wet hands over) your heads, and (wash) your feet up to the ankles� [al-Maa�idah 5:6]

If a person still has wudoo�, and nothing has broken his wudoo� (the things that break wudoo� are anything that is passed from the front or back passage such as urine, stools, wind; sleeping; eating camel meat; etc.), then he does not have to repeat his wudoo�. It was reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) prayed all five prayers with one wudoo� on the day when he conquered Makkah.

If one wishes to repeat wudoo without having to break it first, its more blessings for the one that does it. For every drop that falls from the body when making wudoo is equal to 1 sin erased.

And Allaah knows best.