Preserving the virtue that pertains to the act of worship itself is more important than preserving something that pertains to its time or place.

The Shaykh : They explained this by saying that preserving the virtue that pertains to the act of worship itself is more important than preserving something that pertains to its time or place. This is a beneficial rule, and it is indicated by the fact that if a person enters the time for prayer while needing to urinate or defecate, is it better for him to pray at the beginning of the time because that is better, or should he go and relieve himself and then turn to his prayer? The latter. Here, preserving the act of worship itself is more important than preserving its time or its place. For example, if a person enters the time for prayer while in a place that is entirely covered in tattoos and engravings, and if he prays there he will be distracted by these engravings, but if he leaves this place he will find a place where there is nothing to distract him. Which is more important: that he prays in the place where there is something to distract him, or that he leaves? He should leave. Yes.