Fiqhul Ibiadat, by Durriyah AitaPART TWO › THE BOOK OF PURIFICATION (TAHARA) › Addendum › Wudu (Ablution) › Obligatory acts of wudu › Making the intention (niyah)

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2-Legal status of intention

Intention is obligatory.

Its place is in the heart as long as it aims at doing something, even if the tongue says differently.

Therefore, if one expresses with his tongue the intention of cooling down and intends in his heart to lift hadath or vice versa then what matters is the intention of the heart.

The purpose of intention is to distinguish and differentiate worship from habit.