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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 9 Feb 2021 › Segment 16 of 37

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Should I use water or toilet paper after going to the toilet?

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Cleaning after the toilet: use water

QuestionLive chat · questioner not identifiedAnswered 9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 16 of 37 in the recording2021-02-09-S16

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This segment1:22:19 to 1:27:50 · 5 min 31 sGeneral teaching

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Mufti Abu Layth says a person should always clean with water after the toilet where possible, with paper only as a fallback.

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A super chat asks 'which finger', which Mufti Abu Layth takes as a question about cleaning oneself after the toilet. Mufti says a person should always use water if possible, using paper only when stuck without water, and ideally both. He calls it embarrassing that most of the first world, France and some places excepted, still does not use a bidet or toilet shower, having cracked the atom while forgetting to wash. Mufti argues that no one would accept wiping filth off their hand with a tissue alone, and then jokes with the chat about being mental or a genius.

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Mufti Abu Layth says a person should always, if possible, use water when cleaning after the toilet.

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“a person should always if possible use water water people water obviously if if you're stuck and you don't have water then you will uh use paper”

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1:22:18

hussein has asked a super chat very important one okay [Laughter] which finger this [Laughter]

1:22:51

with a finger i don't know what games people play whilst they're doing this today which finger eeny meeny miny [Laughter] what finger people what finger this is uh a person should always if possible use water water people water obviously if if you're stuck and you don't have water then you will uh use paper but you should always and obviously combine

1:23:31

both when i'm saying use water i don't mean you don't touch paper but you should always be you know hygiene should be to the utmost and to be fair i feel that it is embarrassing that the first world for the most part i know france and certain places excluded but for the most part the first world still does not resort to water when cleaning themselves after going to the toilet they don't have like a toilet shower bidet

1:24:11

or they you know nowadays you get these shut offs kind of toilet showers you can just get them but they won't but they don't do this and and that is so how can they you know not after all these realizations and breakthroughs and discoveries and being at the pinnacle of so many different things in life how can they not on the basics how can they miss that thing out like forget to wash their behind you've cracked the atom and you you've gone into the quantum world

1:24:50

and you've done you know you've created artificial intelligence you know while trying to being so preoccupied with these things they forgot to wash their behind ah this is uh i thought i thought the french used the day but i could be that's the impression i got that they did use um and i think maybe some places in spain i thought because of but i could be wrong i've never i'm not that acquainted with the french but

1:25:28

yeah so oh somebody said they created the b day but but don't use it okay but it's just so shocking that you know it's like it's so common sense that let's just say let's just say okay people i'm gonna give a horrible example now so beware right so let's say accidentally he he wiped some some crap let's say there was a whole a tongue taken right there right this this turd is somewhere but you

1:26:07

accidentally got some on your hand or on your clothes let's say let's just say god forbid god forbid would it seriously be enough like let's say a person got some turd on his hand would it be enough to just get a tissue in the skull yeah it looks pretty much like it's gone now you know

1:26:39

the the projection and the ciarge [Laughter] you know it's so disgusting that you come on let's face it you would wash a hundred percent you wouldn't just be like oh it's okay no no no wash wash my hands why why would i need to wash my hands i've got a tissue look you would never accept that so how is that okay i i just don't get that but yeah um

1:27:10

hello from canada mufti you're doing it you're doing it shukra and shukran somebody said you laugh at your own voice are you mental uh yeah actually i i think i am a bit i think there's a fine line between in you know being a mental or being a genius abhyar i don't know which side of the line i fall on it's like yeah i'm here i don't know where i belong here or here either either one sanity is a bit overrated anyway so right hello from mars

1:27:49

right uh right what is going on did i miss any other super chats much love is there any ruling on intention hallucination like experiences like it's a lot of likes here like like like like sensory deprivation tanks or meditation intention hallucinate oh so what you mean is to set yourself up to hallucinate via things like these deprivation tanks

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