- Say Bismillah and “Allahumma Ini awodho bika minal khubthi wal-khaba’eth” before entering the washroom
- Enter with your left foot
- Don’t hold your private part or wash it with your right hand
- Better to sit when urinating if drizzles of urine are going to get back on you or you clothes
- Wipe at least three times for cleaning; you may use paper, pebbles or water (water is better but using paper and water is even better)
- Never use bones or dung for cleansing
- Not to talk, remember Allah or even respond to the greeting (salam) whilst defecating or urinating
- Leave the bathroom with your right foot
- Say “Ghoofranak” (Forgive me)
If it were in the outdoors, additionally consider the following etiquette:
- Not to face or give your back to the Qiblah (the Ka’bah direction)
- Not to be seen by people
- Not to defecate or urinate in the way or shaded places where people sit or in the water ponds