make your intention obedience to Allah's command by covering yourself appropriately. Beware lest your intention in wearing your clothes be to display before people and you suffer loss.
enter with your left foot, and leave with your right foot.
Do not take inside anything that has on it the names of Allah Most High or His Messenger s.a.w.s.,
and do not enter with a bare head or bare feet.
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Before entering, say: "In the name of Allah, I seek refuge in Allah from filth and impurity, and from the defiled one who defiles, Satan the accursed."
And upon leaving, say: "Your forgiveness. All praise to the One who takes from me what harms me, and leaves me what benefits me."
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You should make ready the cleaning material [toilet paper, water...] before you actually begin to relieve yourself. Do not wash yourself with water in the same place where you relieved yourself.
You should endeavor to rid yourself of all the urine by clearing the throat and squeezing [the male organ] three times, and by passing the [left] hand under it.
If you are in the desert, go out of view of people, and if you can find something to screen yourself, keep behind it. Do not uncover your nakedness until you reach the place where you will squat [hurken].
Do not face the sun or the moon, nor have them directly to your back. Likewise, do not face the direction of prayer, nor have it directly to your back.
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Do not use a place where people are accustomed to gathering and talking, nor a place where people are accustomed to taking shade. Do not relieve yourself in standing water, nor beneath a fruit-bearing tree, nor in an animal's burrow [hol].
Do not relieve yourself on hard earth, or into the wind, so as to avoid splashing and spraying, for he s.a.w.s. said, "The punishment of the grave is from it".
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Use your left foot to lean on, and do not stand to urinate, unless it is really necessary.
Use stones [nowadays toilet paper] as well as water. If you intend to use only one, then water is preferable. [In the case of defecation,] if you want to use only stones, you must use three clean dry stones, wiping with them the unclean area, so as to prevent the spread of the filth beyond the original area.
[In the case of urination,] wipe yourself using three sides of a [large] stone [or three small stones]. If three stones are not sufficient to clean yourself with completely, use five or seven or more to complete your cleansing with an odd [oneven] number. To us an odd number is preferable, but to complete the cleaning is obligatory.
Use only your left hand to clean yourself.
Upon finishing the process of cleaning, say: "O my Lord, purify my heart from hypocrisy, and keep my private parts from wrong action."
Scrub your hands [with the dirt] off the ground or wall, [or with soap].
Then rinse your hands with water.
~Beginning of Guidance~
[Chapter 1]
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