Is It Sinful or Disbelief to Check a Qibla App That Contains a Picture of the K’aba While in the Toilet Area Uncovered?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

Is it sinful or disbelief to check a qibla app that contains a picture of the K’aba while in the toilet area uncovered?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

It is considered dislike to have anything that is respected with one in the toilet area. The usage of the app and the app itself are not of this category, however, the picture of the K’aba on the app is. [Tahtawi/Shurunbulali, Hashiyat Maraqi al-Falah]

This is against the etiquette of using the restroom but it is in no way a major sin let alone disbelief.

Simply asking Allah Most High for forgiveness is sufficient. Allah Most High is Merciful; do not despair of that Divine Mercy.

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 stayed for three years studying in Dar Al-Mustafa under some of the greatest 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 Qur’an and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Qur’anic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.