A Behaviour Study on Ablution Ritual among Muslim in Malaysia

Ablution is a ritual washing performed by Muslim and it is part of compulsory activities to ensure cleanliness before the Muslim perform prayer it has been recorded in the Holy Book's of Quran. In general, ablution followed by washing on particular body, based on Quran, Sunnah and the Scholars consensus, the ablution ritual which they have a few rules and manner when performing the ritual. However, base on research the Malaysian Muslim knowledge on ablution is very basic and not detailed. In this work we reported about the Muslim understanding towards their knowledge on ablution and propose a tool to control the behaviour of Malay society on ablution ritual to minimize usage of water. In all probability, a survey has been done to capture the ablution ritual among Muslim society in Malaysia. The groups investigated were in between of 20 to 40 years old. Most of Muslims show their understanding of performing ablution procedure. Most of them, practicing more than one time while sweep water on compulsory body as required. However, with most of male agreed and the rest female disagreed with the excessive consumption can be categorized ablutions as a waster while performed the ablution, but while the consuming water in ablution ritual refer to the Quran all of them agreed. In order to overcome this problem respondent mostly agreed with the suggestion of introducing new design for ablution tub design system. As conclusion, ablution ritual in Malaysia was reflected by the human behaviour and only the ablution performing system will able to control their habit in order to reduce of water usage while practicing the ablution.