Places where offering prayers is Makrooh
907. There are a number of places where it is Makrooh to offer prayers. Some of them are the following:
- Public bath
- Saline land
- Facing a human person
- Facing an open door
- On a road or street or an alley, provided that offering of prayers at these places does not cause inconvenience to others. If it is a source of inconvenience, and discomfort to them, it is Haraam to obstruct their way, and his prayers is void.
- Facing fire or a lamp
- In the kitchens, and at every place where there is a furnace
- Facing a well or a pit where people often urinate
- Facing the picture or statue of living creatures, unless it is covered
- In the room where a Mujnib is present
- At a place where there is a picture, even if it may not be placed in front of the person who offers prayers
- Facing a grave
- On the grave
- Between two graves
- In the graveyard
908. If a person is offering prayers at a place where people are passing, or where somebody is present in front of him, it is Mustahab that he should set a demarcation before him, even by keeping a wooden stick, or a string.