DESECRATING THE MUSJID WITH NUDITY AND SHAITAANIYAT — TOILET & SHOWER INSIDE THE MUSJID
QUESTION
In Musjidus Salaam in Durban, the I’tikaaf room in the upper part of the Musjid has a toilet and a shower. Mufti Ebrahim Backus informed those sitting in I’tikaaf that they can use the toilet and shower even though it is part of the Musjid. We were all along under the impression that it is not permissible to have a toilet and bathroom in the Musjid. Is this mufti’s fatwa correct?
ANSWER
It is indeed mind boggling that a Mufti could say that it is permissible to excrete in a toilet inside the Musjid and to denude oneself for a shower in the Musjid. In the first instance it is haraam to have a shower/bathroom and a toilet in the Musjid. In the more than fourteen centuries of Islam’s existence, this terrible pollution of the Musjid with toilet and bathroom is unheard of. Never in the history of Islam was any Musjid polluted so terribly by Muslims as this Musgrave Musjid is being polluted and desanctified.
How did the construction of a toilet and bathroom in the Musjid escape the attention of the Durban Ulama? This is the first time we are informed of such shaitaaniyat perpetrated in the Musjid.
It is never permissible to shower in the Musjid, leave alone excreting and urinating. It is Waahjib for the trustees to immediately demolish the toilet and the bathroom. The trustees are under the La’nat and Ghadb Allah Azza Wa Jal, and so are those who use the toilet and bathroom for polluting and desecrating the Musjid.
Those committing such sacrilege – defecating, urinating and showering – in the Musjid will suffer. The suffering may assume the consequences of diseases, etc.
Only people utterly bereft of even a vestige of fear for Allah Ta’ala, and totally deprived of intelligence will have the satanic audacity of using any part of the Musjid for excreting, urinating and showering.
The person who claims that such sacrilege is permissible, cannot be a Mufti. Only a fraud masquerading as a mufti possesses the shaitaani temerity of condoning the desanctifying and pollution of the Musjid in such a vile manner – defecating, urinating and bathing.
22 Ramadhaan 1445 – 2 April 2024