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Muslim Woman
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ummm will u pl explain ? We are not allowed to pray in a room if there is attached toilet ?? I can understand we can't pray inside the toilet as there might be unclean / impure things but not even at the attached room ??
That's what I said. You can pray in ANY room but the bathroom itself. It doesn't matter if it's the next room over from where you are praying (or that the toilet is attached to the very wall that you are facing). Where the bathroom is in association to the room that you are currently in has no bearing at all.
The wall serves the function of being your "sutra," that is, the thing that you pray in front of. The sutra acts as a barrier, allowing people to pass in front of you while praying. Any thing can be used as a sutra. If you are close to the wall (where no one can pass between you and it), then the wall itself is the sutra. Whatever is on the other side of the sutra does not matter at all.
The Prophet (saws) would use a camel saddle as his sutra when he was praying in the open, as illustrated by the following hadith:
Volume 1, Book 9, Number 485:
Narrated Nafi:
"The Prophet used to make his she-camel sit across and he would pray facing it (as a Sutra)." I asked, "What would the Prophet do if the she-camel was provoked and moved?" He said, "He would take its camel-saddle and put it in front of him and pray facing its back part (as a Sutra). And Ibn 'Umar used to do the same." (This indicates that one should not pray except behind a Sutra). (Sahih Bukhari)
Hope that clarifies the meaning of my original post.