We have an elderly man whose ritual purity and caution regarding urine we doubt, as he sometimes enters the bathroom to relieve himself without shoes, and he calls the adhan for prayer.
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The questioner : We have an elderly man whose ritual purity and caution regarding urine we doubt, as he sometimes enters the bathroom to relieve himself without shoes, and he calls the adhan for prayer. Is it permissible for us to pray with this adhan? And when we advise him, he says, "I do not want to learn, and Allah is Forgiving and Merciful." Do we bear any sin in this?
The Shaykh : You bear no sin in this if you have given him advice, but I do not know if he is more deserving of advice than you are.
You may be more deserving of advice than he is, because in the current state, the bathrooms of most people are not actually ritually impure, because urine and feces fall into a specific basin and do not spread to the floor of the place. Then, after the urine and feces in that specific basin, water follows, which the person uses for istinja' (cleaning oneself after relieving oneself), so the floor of the toilet remains pure, with nothing in it that makes it impure. For this reason, a person should not be strict with himself in such matters, nor imagine impurity in what is not impure, or imagine the splashing of urine when it has not splashed on him.
But even if we assume that this toilet the man enters does not have a specific basin for urine, and the person urinates in the same place, and the urine runs under his foot or the like, then it has no connection to the prayer if he calls the adhan while contaminated with impurity; his adhan is valid, and this has no bearing on the validity of the prayer.
The Shaykh : You bear no sin in this if you have given him advice, but I do not know if he is more deserving of advice than you are.
You may be more deserving of advice than he is, because in the current state, the bathrooms of most people are not actually ritually impure, because urine and feces fall into a specific basin and do not spread to the floor of the place. Then, after the urine and feces in that specific basin, water follows, which the person uses for istinja' (cleaning oneself after relieving oneself), so the floor of the toilet remains pure, with nothing in it that makes it impure. For this reason, a person should not be strict with himself in such matters, nor imagine impurity in what is not impure, or imagine the splashing of urine when it has not splashed on him.
But even if we assume that this toilet the man enters does not have a specific basin for urine, and the person urinates in the same place, and the urine runs under his foot or the like, then it has no connection to the prayer if he calls the adhan while contaminated with impurity; his adhan is valid, and this has no bearing on the validity of the prayer.