Re:Aussie

Submitted by Margaret (Poland), May 20, 2009 at 15:44

O M G!! PLEASE NO MORE HORROR STORIES!! HA HA HA Tell me that's not true!! I over heard a guy say in Egypt that toilet paper was only for tourists and foreigners and Its why they only eat with one hand, I thought he was being MEAN!!! well...that probably explains them selling toilet paper everywhere..not to mention the scant amount in the hotels and on the boats...!! Is it because of their ancient sewage systems?

Nope. It is because of islam- they follow the prophet Muhammad and he commanded his followers even how to answer a call of nature. There are about 72 rules of how to urinate and defacte.

Here is what the prophet said: (from the collection of imam Bukhari hadiths)

1. Volume 1, Book 4, Number 152:

   Narrated Anas bin Malik:

   Whenever Allah's Apostle went to answer the call of nature, I along with another boy used to accompany him with a tumbler full of water. (Hisham commented, "So that he might wash his private parts with it.)"

2. Volume 1, Book 4, Number 146: Narrated Abu Aiyub Al-Ansari:

   Allah's Apostle said, "If anyone of you goes to an open space for answering the call of nature he should neither face nor turn his back towards the Qibla (Mekkah); he should either face the east or the west."

3. Volume 1, Book 4, Number 155: Narrated Abu Qatada:

   Allah's Apostle said, "Whenever anyone of you drinks water, he should not breathe in the drinking utensil, and whenever anyone of you goes to a lavatory, he should neither touch his penis nor clean his private parts with his right hand."

4. Volume 1, Book 4, Number 162: Narrated Abu Huraira:

   The Prophet said, "Whoever performs ablution should clean his nose with water by putting the water in it and then blowing it out, and whoever cleans his private parts with stones should do it with odd number of stones."

So as you see in general you use water- but sometimes stones too- and I've heard that in public toilets in Pakistan there are stones...

In Britain some muslims demand to built a special toilets for them so that they wouldnt have to face the Qibla when urinating/defecating and mosques in West have water (probably in buckets) instead of paper in the toilets...

Some Muslims consider using toilet paper as dirty and disgusting thing ...one cleric even said that we use coloured underwear to conceal out filth lol...

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