Conditions for the Validity of I'tikaf
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Question:
We have learned, Shaykh Salih, through your successful explanation that i'tikaf is staying in the mosque. Honorable Shaykh, are there conditions for the validity of i'tikaf?
Answer:
Yes. One of the conditions of i'tikaf is that one does not leave except for a need; one does not leave except for a need. Also, one of its conditions is that the mosque in which one is performing i'tikaf must be one where the congregational prayer is held; it must not be an abandoned mosque. And another condition is that one must avoid his wife during the period of i'tikaf, meaning that he does not have sexual relations with her while he is in i'tikaf, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:[Al-Baqarah 2:187]. Yes.
We have learned, Shaykh Salih, through your successful explanation that i'tikaf is staying in the mosque. Honorable Shaykh, are there conditions for the validity of i'tikaf?
Answer:
Yes. One of the conditions of i'tikaf is that one does not leave except for a need; one does not leave except for a need. Also, one of its conditions is that the mosque in which one is performing i'tikaf must be one where the congregational prayer is held; it must not be an abandoned mosque. And another condition is that one must avoid his wife during the period of i'tikaf, meaning that he does not have sexual relations with her while he is in i'tikaf, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted:
And do not have relations with them as long as you are staying for worship in the mosques
وَلَا تُبَاشِرُوهُنَّ وَأَنتُمْ عَاكِفُونَ فِي الْمَسَاجِدِ
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قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 32 من 32|شرح أحاديث الصيام من كتاب المنتقى|اعتكاف في المساجد الثلاثة|صالح الفوزان|الفقه|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (4:13)
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