Title: Is it permissable to have ones bed facing the qiblah? Is it proven in any hadith that our feet should not face the qiblah?

Question: Is it permissable to have ones bed facing the qiblah? Is it proven in any hadith that our feet should not face the qiblah?

Answer ID: 1188Posted on: Sep 1, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 808/757=B)

The Hadith prohibits us from facing Qibla direction at the time of excretions (discharging urine and stool): اذا أتیتم الغائط فلا تستقبلوا القبلۃ ولا تستدبروھا و لکن شرقوا او غربوا

This prohibition is based on desecration, and the same desecration is found in stretching the leg towards Qibla as well; therefore the scholars of Fiqh have derived this ruling that stretching leg towards Qibla is disliked:

ویکرہ مد رجلیہ فی نوم او غیرہ الیھا عمداً لانہ اساءۃ ادب (شامی: 2/427)