When performing wudhu, each limb must be cleaned three times.
When going to sajdah and ruku, a quick prayer is recited three times.
When not being able to fulfill some pilgrimage requirements, people fast for three days.
When drinking a glass of water, it is done in three gulps.
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Some of this is actually written rules but a good chunk is just adults being taught that and passing along, and don’t actually have to be three (in fact, very much country/culture specific, or even specific to different schools within the same branch of Islam)
I myself used to be confused and stressed as a child on why we brush our teeth two times a day because “everything else is three!!”
Number three keeps randomly coming up in Islam.
When performing wudhu, each limb must be cleaned three times.
When going to sajdah and ruku, a quick prayer is recited three times.
When not being able to fulfill some pilgrimage requirements, people fast for three days.
When drinking a glass of water, it is done in three gulps.
…
Some of this is actually written rules but a good chunk is just adults being taught that and passing along, and don’t actually have to be three (in fact, very much country/culture specific, or even specific to different schools within the same branch of Islam)
I myself used to be confused and stressed as a child on why we brush our teeth two times a day because “everything else is three!!”
Thank you for the explanation!