Shaafi’ Wudhu Masaail (18)

4.3. Rinsing the Mouth

1. It is masnoon to rinse the mouth.
2. Rinsing the mouth follows the washing of the hands.
3. It suffices to merely put water in the mouth. To swoosh the water in the mouth or gargle is not incumbent.
4. It is, however, sunnat to swoosh, gargle and rotate the finger in the mouth.
5. It is sunnat to take the water in the right hand.
6. It is afzal (more meritorious) to rinse the mouth and apply water to the nose with one scoop of water. In other words, although washing the mouth first with three scoops of water is perfectly permissible, there is greater virtue to wash the mouth and nose together by putting part of the water from the hand into the mouth and applying the balance in the nose, and this should be done thrice.
7. It is mandoob (recommended) that the rinsing of the mouth be thorough, provided that one is not fasting.
8. Rinsing thoroughly is for the water to reach the back of the mouth, gums and all the teeth.
9. In the state of fasting it is makrooh to rinse the mouth thoroughly.

(Al-Mabsoot – To be continued, Insha Allah)