Explanation of the Book of Purification-19

The Shaykh : Then the author said: "And from Salman (may Allah be pleased with him), who said:

He (meaning God’s messenger) forbade us to face the qibla when easing ourselves or passing water, or to wipe ourselves with the right hand, or to wipe ourselves with less than three stones, or to wipe ourselves with dung or bone.

لقد نهانا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم أن نستقبل القبلة بغائط أو بول ، أو نستنجي باليمين ، أو أن نستنجي بأقل من ثلاثة أحجار ، أو أن نستنجي برجيع أو عظم

Mishkat al-Masabih 336

Muslim narrated it":
He said: Salman al-Farisi said this in response to a man from the polytheists who said: "Your Prophet has taught you even how to relieve yourself": meaning: even the etiquettes of relieving oneself. So he said to him: .
The scholars said: The prohibition is a demand to refrain in a manner of authority, meaning: the one who prohibits feels that he has authority and the right to speak to the one to whom the prohibition is directed.
And his saying: : means that a person should sit on his urine or feces with the qiblah in front of him, and that is to honor the qiblah, because the qiblah is a place of honor, and the place toward which the servants turn to Allah the Exalted in the most noble of acts of worship after the two testimonies, so it must be honored.
And his saying: .
And istinja' is the removal of najw, which is feces.
And his saying: : means that we should settle for two stones or one stone.
And his saying: indicates that this is in the case where the excretion is wet, but if the excretion is dry—sometimes the excretion is dry and the place does not get contaminated at all—then it does not fall under the hadith, because istinja' is not obligatory from it in this case, but if the excretion is moist, one should not clean oneself with less than three stones, even if they clean it thoroughly.
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Dung.
And is well known.
And that is because dung is the food of the beasts of the jinn, they eat it just as our beasts eat fodder.
As for the bone, it is because it is the food of our brothers from the jinn, : Glory be to Allah! Meaning this bone that appears, the jinn find the meat on it to be the most abundant, even though we do not see this, because the jinn and their conditions are among the matters of the unseen.