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You step in a mosque with
your right foot. When leaving a mosque you step out with your left
foot first. It is written in Uyun-ul-basair: “When entering a
mosque, you take off your left and then right shoe before entering.
Then you step in with your right foot first. You put on your right
shoe after [or before] leaving with your left foot first.” In
explaining the afflictions incurred by hands and feet, the book Hadiqa
says, “As imam-i Nawawi says in his explanation of Muslim, it is
mustahab [1]
to begin with your right side when doing blessed, honored and pure
deeds. You begin with your right when putting on your shoes, trousers,
shirt, when cutting or combing your hair, when trimming your
moustache, when using a miswak, when cutting your nails, when washing
your hands and feet, when entering a mosque, a Muslim’s house, a
Muslim’s room, when going out of a rest room, when giving alms, when
eating, and when drinking. When doing the opposites of these, for
example, when taking off your shoes, socks, clothes, when going out of
a mosque, or a Muslim’s house, a Muslim’s room, when entering the
restroom, when expelling mucus from your nose, when cleaning yourself
after relieving nature, it is mustahab to begin with your left. It is
tanzihi makruh [2]
to do them conversely, because it means to omit the sunnat [3]
in hey’et (form).”
GLOSSARY:
[1]
mustahab: (act, thing) deserving thawab if done but no sin if omitted, nor disbelief if disliked.
[2]
makruh-tanzihi: makruh of a lesser degree.
[3]
sunnat: any action, word or thought liked and commanded by the Prophet.
