Praying
      in a place under which there is a sewage pipe
Question

                A
      man has an apartment in which there is a bookstore containing copies of
      the Holy Qur’aan. But there is a sewage pipe which passes beneath this
      apartment. Is it permissible to pray and recite Qur’aan there or not?
      Please advise us, may Allaah reward you with good.
Praise be to Allah.There is nothing wrong with this so long as (the
      apartment) is separate (from the pipe). Al-Imaam al-Muwaffaq, the author
      of al-Mughni and of al-Sharh
      al-Kabeer, said: It is permissible to use the area above the
      roof of the pipe and similar places, because the pipe is beneath and there
      is a roof over it. It is not allowed to pray in toilets and similar
      places, but according to the correct view, it is permissible to pray and
      read Qur’aan on the roof over them, as we have stated above. Some
      scholars said that it is not permissible to do that, but the correct view,
      in sha Allaah, is that it is OK. And Allaah knows best.