Bath Room

In order, to cleanse the body from the physical impurities and dust, a Muslim should take bath. If he uses bathroom, he has some duties to perform.

1. He shall protect his private parts from sight of others and from touch of others.
2. He shall not look to private parts of others and disclose his own before others.
3. He shall not go there to take bath in lonely times.

These are obligatory duties on one who takes bath in bathrooms run by public men for the public. In one’s own bathroom where no stranger is allowed, these duties need not to be observed. For the public bathrooms, there are some eight sunnats to be observed.

1. To make niyyat or intention for purification of body;
2. To pay wages to the manager of the bathroom;
3. To step with the left leg at first to the bathroom uttering “In the name of Allah, the most merciful and Beneficent. I seek refuge to Allah from fouls and impurities of the accursed devil;
4. To wash the body with water and not to abuse it;
5. To remember the heat of fire of the hell from the heat of the bathroom;
6. not to make or return salam at the time of entering;
7. not to read the Quaran openly or hold talk;
8. not to enter it after Magrib and before night prayers or little before sun-set prayer. As for women, they should not enter with men in bath-room.