What is your opinion on using the Western-style toilet out of necessity? Sometimes I find moisture and do not know if it is impure, pure, or something else. What is the ruling?
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The questioner : Your Eminence, the Shaykh (may Allah preserve him), what is your opinion on using the Western-style toilet out of necessity? Sometimes I find moisture and do not know if it is impure, pure, or something else. What is the ruling?
The Shaykh : I see no harm in using the Western-style toilet. In fact, regarding the preservation of cleanliness from urine, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) emphasized the matter of cleaning oneself from urine and said (peace and blessings be upon him):. So, using this method, which is the Western-style toilet, I see nothing wrong with it. In fact, it is less likely that the spray of urine will return to the one relieving himself in a regular toilet, especially these toilets that also come to us from the West and were not made for the lands of Islam, where the floor of the toilet area is raised, causing the spray to return to the one relieving himself. In conclusion, I do not consider using this toilet to be disliked or blameworthy.
As for the obsessive doubts that enter some people regarding some water found around this toilet or elsewhere, the answer to this is well known and does not depend on the type of toilet, whether it is Arab-style or Western-style, as it is called today. The principle in this matter is: "It is not permissible for a Muslim to be one who has obsessive doubts. Rather, one looks at this water: if it is impure with apparent impurity, he washes the place that the impurity touched, whether it is on his body or on his clothing. Otherwise, the original state is purity." Yes.
The Shaykh : I see no harm in using the Western-style toilet. In fact, regarding the preservation of cleanliness from urine, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) emphasized the matter of cleaning oneself from urine and said (peace and blessings be upon him):
Clean yourselves from urine, for most of the punishment of the grave is from urine.
استنجوا مِن البول، فإن أكثر عذاب القبر مِن البولAs for the obsessive doubts that enter some people regarding some water found around this toilet or elsewhere, the answer to this is well known and does not depend on the type of toilet, whether it is Arab-style or Western-style, as it is called today. The principle in this matter is: "It is not permissible for a Muslim to be one who has obsessive doubts. Rather, one looks at this water: if it is impure with apparent impurity, he washes the place that the impurity touched, whether it is on his body or on his clothing. Otherwise, the original state is purity." Yes.