The ruling on praying facing a restroom
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Question:
The second question: My mother, may Allah preserve her, prays in one of the rooms in the house, and in front of her, may Allah honor you and the listeners, is a restroom. So, it is either to her right or left, or in front of her, but generally there is a restroom in front of her. What is the ruling on that? She prays in a room with a restroom in front of her, O Shaykh.
Answer:
There is no harm in that if there is a wall between her and the restroom. There is no harm in that, and she should not turn away from the qiblah on the pretext that there is a restroom in front of her. Rather, she should pray facing the qiblah. It does not harm her if the restroom is surrounded by a wall that acts as a barrier between them. There is no harm for the one praying in that case. Yes.
The second question: My mother, may Allah preserve her, prays in one of the rooms in the house, and in front of her, may Allah honor you and the listeners, is a restroom. So, it is either to her right or left, or in front of her, but generally there is a restroom in front of her. What is the ruling on that? She prays in a room with a restroom in front of her, O Shaykh.
Answer:
There is no harm in that if there is a wall between her and the restroom. There is no harm in that, and she should not turn away from the qiblah on the pretext that there is a restroom in front of her. Rather, she should pray facing the qiblah. It does not harm her if the restroom is surrounded by a wall that acts as a barrier between them. There is no harm for the one praying in that case. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، حكم الصلاة قبالة دورة المياه - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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