Naming Restrooms Bathrooms
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The questioner:
Your Eminence the Shaykh, regarding the naming of restrooms as "bathrooms" in our current time, and the blame associated with this, what is your opinion on it?
The Shaykh:
The matter is broad in this case, because one can tolerate the smell in them, because one can tolerate it in them, because one bathes in them, so the matter is easy.
The questioner:
The author said.
The Shaykh:
Correct. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) saidJami` at-Tirmidhi 317Sahih (Darussalam), the bathhouse, meaning the one in which urine is passed and excrement is produced.
Your Eminence the Shaykh, regarding the naming of restrooms as "bathrooms" in our current time, and the blame associated with this, what is your opinion on it?
The Shaykh:
The matter is broad in this case, because one can tolerate the smell in them, because one can tolerate it in them, because one bathes in them, so the matter is easy.
The questioner:
The author said.
The Shaykh:
Correct. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said
All of the earth is a Masjid except for the graveyard and the washroom.
الأرض كلها مسجد إلا المقبرة والحمام
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم [ برنامج إذاعي ]، بداية من أسئلة في باب الاستتار عن الأعين للمغتسل وجواز تجرده في الخلوة — islamhouse.com (9:34)
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