Must I Remove a Paper with Dua Written on It That Was Pasted to the Washroom Wall?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch
Question
Must I remove a paper containing the transliteration of supplications that are pasted to the wall of the washroom?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.
If the paper containing supplications is located in the toilet area of a medium to large washroom or a smaller-sized washroom, you should remove it. If the only way you can remove it entails ripping it, you have a few options:
- Rip the paper off and shred it (ripping it into small pieces would suffice);
- Cross out the Name of Allah Most High and that of the Messenger (may Allah bless him and give him peace). After that, you can leave or remove it as you’d like.
If it is located elsewhere, then the paper can remain where it is.
Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.
He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.
In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.
