Going to the mosque with the smell of garlic, onions, and smoke
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Question:
Shaykh Salih (may Allah preserve you), I mean, your guidance for the worshippers who go to the mosques with the smell of garlic and onions, and sometimes this extends to the smell of smoke and shisha, and so on. What is your guidance? May Allah bless you.
Answer:
A Muslim must prepare himself when he intends to go to the mosque by cleaning himself, applying perfume, and removing unpleasant odors. If he has unpleasant odors that affect the worshippers, he should not go to the mosque, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Sahih al-Bukhari 7359 So let him not approach our mosque. Yes.
Shaykh Salih (may Allah preserve you), I mean, your guidance for the worshippers who go to the mosques with the smell of garlic and onions, and sometimes this extends to the smell of smoke and shisha, and so on. What is your guidance? May Allah bless you.
Answer:
A Muslim must prepare himself when he intends to go to the mosque by cleaning himself, applying perfume, and removing unpleasant odors. If he has unpleasant odors that affect the worshippers, he should not go to the mosque, because the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
Whoever has eaten garlic or onion
من أكل ثوما أو بصلا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (104) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1436-10-27] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (31:55)
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