Question:

1. Houses these days usually have ensuites in which there is a toilet and a bathroom sink in the same area. When using such an ensuite when should the dua of entering the toilet or exiting the toilet be read? Also if a person is to make wudu at a bathroom sink located in such an ensuite can he/she recite the masnoon duas read during wudu? And if this bathroom sink is not regarded as part of the toilet can a person use it with his/her head uncovered?

2. When children are young they are taught to read the Quran using the Noorani Qaida or the Iqra books. Can children carry and touch the Quranic verses in these books without wudu? If they can, can you please specify from which age they must have wudu.

3. If a person is praying salat with jamaat and his/her wudu happens to break, can he/she leave the jamaat and break through the rows behind to make it to the wudu area or should he/she wait till jamat is finished and then leave and in the process miss their salat with jamaat? Or does this depend on an individuals situation, if they are right at the front then they wait till the jamaat is over and if they are towards the back (but not exactly in the last row) they can break a few rows and make it to the wudu area?

Answer:

بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمنِ الرَّحِيْم

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1) - The dua of entering the toilet should be read before entering the ensuite.

- The dua of exiting the toilet should be read after exiting the ensuite.

- After relieving oneself, if one intends to make wudu in the sink, he can read the dua of “exiting the toilet” in his mind after putting on his clothes. However, he should not read the dua with his tongue while in the ensuite.

- He should read the masnoon duas of wudu in his mind, not with his tongue.

- He can use the sink without covering his head.

- When relieving oneself, it is mustahab to cover one’s head.

2) Yes, children who are not baaligh can touch the Quran and other books that contain Qur’anic verses without wudu. A boy can become baligh between the ages of 12 to 15 lunar years. A girl can become baaligha between the ages of 9 to 15 lunar years.

(Shami: 1/174, Saeed)

3) In such a case, it will be permissible for the person to break through the rows in order to make wudu. It will even be permissible for him to cross in front of those engaged in salat. This is regardless of which row the person is in.

(Ahsanul Fatawa: 3/297; Fatawa Mahmudiya: 6/579)

And Allah Ta'ala knows best.

Mufti Faizal Riza
13/3/2013

Darul Ifta Australia
www.fatwa.org.au

 

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