Adhkar al-Tahara wa al-Salah
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Adhkar al-Tahara wa al-Salah (Remembrances of Purification and Prayer) is a devotional treatise by the contemporary Saudi scholar Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Muhsin al-Badr, focused on the prophetic supplications and invocations associated with ritual purity and ritual prayer.
Origin and Purpose
The treatise originated from a section within the author's broader work Fiqh al-Ad'iyah wa al-Adhkar (Jurisprudence of Supplications and Remembrances), where he had compiled a concise commentary on the invocations connected to purification and prayer. Noting that these remembrances recur constantly on the tongues of Muslims throughout the day and night while their deeper meanings, wisdoms, and objectives often remain unfamiliar to many, he separated this portion into a self-contained treatise upon the request of readers to make it readily accessible, easily studied, and widely disseminated.
Contents and Method
The work addresses the invocations and etiquettes accompanying various stages of ritual purity and prayer, drawing upon prophetic traditions:
- Etiquettes and Invocations of Relieving Oneself: Discusses the prescribed supplications upon entering the privy—such as seeking refuge from male and female devils (اللهم إني أعوذ بك من الخبث والخبائث) preceded by the basmalah—and upon exiting (غفرانك), alongside related manners such as seeking concealment, avoiding facing or turning one's back to the qiblah, and abstaining from speech and remembrance while relieving oneself.
- Remembrances of Purification and Prayer: Explains the specific phrasings transmitted in the Sunnah for ritual ablution, the call to prayer (adhan), the prayer itself, and the post-prayer invocations, elucidating their spiritual significance, underlying meanings, and legal rulings.
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