{"id":5493,"date":"2016-11-19T01:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/?p=5493"},"modified":"2016-11-19T01:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T05:06:20","slug":"pointing-to-the-heavens-after-wudhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/?p=5493","title":{"rendered":"Pointing Finger to the Heavens After Wudhu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Question:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some people lift their index finger (shahadah finger) towards the heavens after wudhu and read a dua. Is this dua authentic?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Answer:\u00a0\u0628\u0627\u0633\u0645\u0647 \u0633\u0628\u062d\u0627\u0646\u0647 \u0648\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0649 \u0648 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0648\u0641\u064a\u0642<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To recite the Kalimah Shahadah and the dua after wudhu and to look towards the heavens when reciting the dua are all established in the noble Ahadith. However, I have not seen any narration explicitly mentioning the raising of\u00a0the index finger at the time of reciting the Shahadah (after wudhu). Nonetheless, the jurists have considered this a good action. Therefore, it would not be prohibited to do such. However, it should not be considered necessary or a Sunnah\u00a0act.<\/p>\n<p>And Allah Ta&#8217;ala knows best.<br \/>\n(Mufti) Muhammad Salman Munsurpuri 11\/4\/1424<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The answer is correct. (Mufti) Shabbir Ahmed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Finger-after-Wudhu-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Finger-after-Wudhu-1-765x1024.png\" alt=\"finger-after-wudhu-1\" width=\"700\" height=\"937\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Kitabul Nawazil<\/span>\u00a0Vol.3 Pg.103-104<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Translators note:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Messenger of Allah said, &#8220;There is none of you who performs the <em>wudhu\u00a0<\/em>and performs it well, \u00a0<strong>then raises his eyes to the sky<\/strong>, and then says after he completes it: &#8216;I testify that there is none worthy of\u00a0 worship except Allah alone, having no partners, and I testify that Muhammad is His servant and Messenger,&#8217; except that all eight doors of Paradise will be opened for him; he can enter it through whichever one he pleases.&#8221; [Musnad Ahmed #121 [\u0631\u0641\u0639 \u0646\u0638\u0631\u0647], Sunan Abu Dawud #170[\u0631\u0641\u0639 \u0628\u0635\u0631\u0647]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Some people lift their index finger (shahadah finger) towards the heavens after wudhu and read a dua. Is this dua authentic? Answer:\u00a0\u0628\u0627\u0633\u0645\u0647 \u0633\u0628\u062d\u0627\u0646\u0647 \u0648\u062a\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0649&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[140,219,284,288,322],"class_list":["post-5493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wudhu","tag-dua","tag-kitabul-nawazil","tag-salman-munsurpuri","tag-shabbir-ahmed-qasmi","tag-wudhu","wpcat-77-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiqhulislam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}