What is your advice for one who practices the secret habit?
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Question:
He says: I am a young man who maintains the prayers, praise be to Allah, but I am suffering from practicing the secret habit. What do you advise me?
Answer:
The secret habit is forbidden. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Mu'minun 23:5] It is obligatory for the Muslim to guard his private parts. [Al-Mu'minun 23:5-6] Allah has permitted enjoyment with the wife and has permitted enjoyment with the slave, who is the one owned by the right hand, over whom he has the right of ownership. Then He said: "But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors," meaning other than the wife and other than the slave. That is, they are those who cross the boundary from what is lawful to what is forbidden. The secret habit falls under this because it is enjoyment with other than what Allah has made lawful, namely the wife and the slave. It is forbidden, as the scholars have explicitly stated.
He says: I am a young man who maintains the prayers, praise be to Allah, but I am suffering from practicing the secret habit. What do you advise me?
Answer:
The secret habit is forbidden. Allah the Exalted said:
And they who guard their private parts
وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ(5) And they who guard their private parts (6) Except from their wives or those their right hands possess
وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما نصيحتكم لمن يمارس العادة السرية؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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