Taharah-- Questions and Answers related to Toilet!!!

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Taharah

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Questions and Answers related to Toilet Manners

·        Reading newspaper and magazines in bathrooms!!

o   As we are not permitted to say or read Allah’name, the habit of reading anything inside is also not a good one.

o   The “hikmat” wisdom behind it is that it is “disrespect” of Ilm, as bathrooms are places impurities and filth. Hence finish one’s business and get out quickly.

·         Child is left handed by birth

o   Train child to use right hand for eating and left hand for washing up.

o   The prophet s.a.w “forbade” us to eat with our left hand [ Bukhari]

o   Umar ra could use both hands

·         Spending time in the bathroom, doing activities unrelated to toilet is not good.

·         Some people feel that using a “shower” to wash is enough. That is NOT true. One should use hand as it cleans properly and also a person needs to be satisfied that clean up was complete.

·         If a person keeps a vessel under the bed for urination , then washing up can be done be done by using sand or water or tissue.

·         We can enter the bathroom when the azan is going on. A person only enters the bathroom when its necessary. The only condition is that a person should not reply to the azan.

·         There are duas for wu’zu and such like, a person can recite these duas in their heart. But, if any filth, impurity, najas things are visible to you, then don’t make these duas.

·         Muslims have been discouraged from staying naked in the bathroom for extended periods of time. Take a bath , do the needful and get out!!

·         Some of us have dressing rooms/areas inside our bathrooms . it’s alright to get dressed there as once the filth has been washed/flushed away and the area is not smelling bad or any visible filth seen.

·         Some of us do zikr in the bathroom as we are in the habit of doing it constantly.

o   Unintentional deeds are forgiven by Allah J so nothing to worry there!! Shaitan makes us forget to do zikr and reminds us to do it in such places. Fight him!!

·         The reasons why cow dung and bone are not allowed to be used for cleansing purposes are:  

o   Cow dung and Bone cant absorb.

o   Bones are the food of Jinns, hence the Prophet s.a.w asked us to leave them for our Jinn brothers and not dirty them

o   Cow dung is used as a fuel and it as certain bacteria which are harmful for the human body.

·         If we are in toilets where they is no water( specially in foreign places!! ) then we should try to always carry a small empty bottle to carry water in the bathroom and try not to make a mess there with our water. We can use the tissue and then the little amount of water we have. If no water, then we should make good use of the tissue and clean our selves !!

·         If a person has nothing to wear except one pair of clothes and they are dirty(najas) then a person should still pray. A person cannot avoid praying.

·         If we get up late and we need to go to the toilet and the  time for fajr prayer is passing, then one can judge for one self!! Go to the toilet and relieve one self and pray , as long as he /she is sure that he wont dirty him/her self while praying.

·         Don’t  talk in the bathroom, on the phone, to some one outside while attending to toilet matters.

·         Its not good to listen to music in the bathroom!! If you have a habit of listening to songs or singing while in the bathroom, get rid of this habit..!! iA Allah will help!!

·         Using the English style commode is alright.

·         We cannot wear a locket of the ka’ba and go in the bathroom. As it is among the Signs of Allah.

·         It is necessary to “veil” one self while attending to toilet matters as it is a symbol of “haya” and a difference between animals and humans.

·         Angels of protection and other angels leave us when we enter the bathroom.

·         We can carry a tasbih in our pocket and enter the bathroom as it is just a “tool” for the purpose of Zikr.

·         DON’T make dua of entering the bathroom  inside;if you forget to pray it outside.

·         Reciting Kalima after washing hands or bathing after intercourse or menses to make one ‘paak” is NOT supported by  sunnat.

Kalmia cleanses the heart , water/sand cleanses the body.

Some points to be noted our:

These rules have been made for our good. We have developed some habits due to ignorance , we should make dua and strive hard to change them iA Allah will help!!

Secondly, we need to understand, if we cannot see, smell any filth treat it as a simple room. But, if we know that dirty diapers , used sanitary napkins are in the dustbin inside the bathroom and  though we can’t smell them or see them we should still follow the rules of the Toilet and leave and not take our time.