What is meant by the bathroom in which prayer is not valid?
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Question:
The place of relief, or the bathroom for bathing?
Answer:
It is the place of relief.
Q: If the place of relief is in the direction of the qiblah?
A: It does no harm. If he prays with it in his qiblah, it does no harm.
Q: Is prayer valid inside the bathroom?
A: Prayer is not valid in the bathroom. One does not pray inside the bathroom. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade it: the entire earth is a mosque, except the graveyard and the bathroom; because it is a place where ritual impurities are likely to be found.
Q: If he is trapped in the bathroom and cannot get out until the time for prayer has passed?
A: [Al-An'am:119], dire necessity has its own rulings.
The place of relief, or the bathroom for bathing?
Answer:
It is the place of relief.
Q: If the place of relief is in the direction of the qiblah?
A: It does no harm. If he prays with it in his qiblah, it does no harm.
Q: Is prayer valid inside the bathroom?
A: Prayer is not valid in the bathroom. One does not pray inside the bathroom. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade it: the entire earth is a mosque, except the graveyard and the bathroom; because it is a place where ritual impurities are likely to be found.
Q: If he is trapped in the bathroom and cannot get out until the time for prayer has passed?
A:
while He has explained in detail to you what He has forbidden you, excepting that to which you are compelled
وَقَدْ فَصَّلَ لَكُمْ مَا حَرَّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِلَّا مَا اضْطُرِرْتُمْ إِلَيْهِ
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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