Islamic Toilet Etiquette

There’s plenty of unwritten rules and regulations about using a toilet, but Muhammad was good enough to put some in the novel he wrote to help out his followers. These were written, not as rules, but more of a best practice guide for using the loo. Here’s some of them:

1) No eating on the bog (well why would you?).

2) Wash your hands afterwards (again, good sense).

3) Enter the area with your left foot and exit it with your right foot (seems a bit unnecessary but I’ll give it a try next time I guess).

4) Remain silent (I completely agree with this one. I hate it when someone gets into the cubicle next to you at work and starts asking how you are while you’re trying to focus on the matter in hand. If I am in a small room and the door is locked, that should be enough of a clue that I don’t want to chat. If I can hear your nuggets hitting the water or vise versa, please keep your mouth shut. It’s embarrassing enough as it is).

5) Say a little prayer when you’ve finished: “Praise be to Allah who relieved me of the filth and gave me relief”.

This is a picture of a toilet near the summit of Mount Sinai, Egypt. Not a bad view hey?:

It’s not just Islam that has a best practice guide to relieving one’s self. The Jewish faith also suggests that you say a prayer of thanks to god for the orifices you’ve just used after you’ve been. And I can see where they’re coming from. Without the appropriate orifices we would eventually burst.

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