ETIQUETTES OF GOING TO TOILET

If you wish to offer a prayer and need to go to toilet, you may begin with the latter. There are many reported etiquettes of going to toilet. However, I will hereinafter mention some of them briefly:

You may precede your left foot to the right when entering the water closet (or the place where you excrete) and say the following:

In the Name of Allah (I begin) and in Allah (I trust).

I pray Allah’s protection against the filthy, the impure,

the wicked, and the source of wickedness;

namely, Satan the accursed.

When you try to take off, you may utter the BISMILLAH

At such a situation, and all similar situations, you must try to cover your private parts, letting nobody see them. It is haram (i.e. religiously unlawful) to sit, for excretion, facing the kiblah direction or giving it one’s back.

While excreting, it is recommended to say the following:

O Allah, (please) nourish me pleasant food in wellbeing

and make me excrete it repulsive in wellbeing.

If your sight falls on the excrement, you may say the following:

O Allah, (please) provide me with the legally gotten (sustenance)

and keep me away from the illegally gotten.

When you finish and want to clean yourself, you may first of all try to make sure that you have discharged the entire waste. Then, you may say the supplicatory prayer that is said when one’s eye falls on water:

All praise be to Allah Who has made water pure

but has not made it impure.

While cleaning yourself from the waste, you may say the following:

O Allah, make me guard my chastity, chasten me,

cover my private parts,

and forbid Hellfire from consuming me.

When you finish and stand up, you may rub your abdomen with your right hand and say the following:

All praise be to Allah Who has warded off harm from me,

made me find the pleasure of my food and drink,

and freed me from plague.

You may then leave the water closet (or the place where you have excreted), preceding your right foot to the left and saying the following:

All praise be to Allah Who has made me find its pleasure,

kept in my body its power,

and discharged its harm from me.

How a pleasant bliss it is!

How a pleasant bliss it is!

How a pleasant bliss it is!

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