Abstain from: when stooling or urinating
Syeda Muneeba Masood
PASSING STOOL OR URINATING
By: Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi
Things that one should abstain from when passing stool or urinating:
To talk.
To cough unnecessarily.
To read some verse of the Quran, Hadith, or respected thing.
To take something to the toilet on which the following things are
written: the name of Allah, any prophet, any angel, or any respected
person; any verse of the Quran, Hadith, or dua. But if these things are
in the pocket, or wrapped in a ta'wiz (amulet), then there's no harm in
this.
To relieve one's self in a standing or lying down position without any
genuine excuse.
To remove all the clothes and relieve one's self completely naked.
To make istinja with the right hand.
To face the moon or sun, or to turn one's back towards them while one
is passing stool or urinating is makruh. It is also makruh to do the
same on the bank of a river, pond, etc. even if the impurity does not
fall inside. Similarly, it is makruh to do this under trees in whose
shade people sit, or under fruit and flowering trees where people sit
in winter in order to get some sunshine. It is makruh tahrimi
(extremely detestable) to do this in the following places: among
animals, very close to the musjid or eid-gah whereby the foul smell
disturbs the musallis, in a grave yard, at a place where people make
wudu or ghusl, on the road, in the direction of the wind, in a hole, on
the road-side, near a caravan or some gathering. In other words, it is
makruh to relieve one's self in such a place where people move around
and thereby cause them discomfort; and also in such a place where the
impurity can flow back towards the person.
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