A drunk barged into a mosque in New York’s Queens Burrough last night and urinated on prayer rugs, cops and witnesses said.

Evening prayers were disrupted at the Iman Mosque on Steinway Street in Astoria when the unhinged man “came in with a beer bottle in his hands, clearly very intoxicated,” said Mustapha Sadouki, who was attending services.   »»» NYPOST.com

Abu Hurairah, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him), narrates a tradition about a similar incident:

“A Bedouin stood up and started making water in the mosque. The people caught him but the Prophet ordered them to leave him and to pour a bucket or a tumbler of water over the place where he had passed the urine.”

At that timed, mosques had earthen floors, making the damage much less than that caused in the New York incident. However, the lesson is the same. Even in moments of great annoyance, we are called to forebearance and self-restraint.

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