Prohibition of Relieving Nature on the Paths

Here the prohibited actions reach into the ordinary corners of daily life, the road people walk and the shade where they rest. The chapter teaches that mindfulness of others is part of faith, and that harming the public spaces a community shares is no small thing.

The striking phrase is that these acts provoke cursing, meaning they draw the resentment and complaint of everyone inconvenienced by them. Buruja reads this as a lesson in social conscience, that a believer guards the comfort and dignity of strangers he will never meet, and avoids becoming a source of harm in the places people depend on.