Definition of ikhtilat and its criterion
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Question:
The questioner asks: What is the definition of ikhtilat? Does any presence of the two sexes constitute ikhtilat? Or is the occurrence of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) a condition and criterion for it?
Answer:
Ikhtilat is well known. Ikhtilat is well known, and it is that which stirs up fitnah. It is when a woman sits next to a man, or sits in front of him at a table on the radio or on television, or at a table, while she is displaying her adornment, decorated and beautified, as if he were her husband or a mahram (a relative one may not marry).
This is blatant ikhtilat and is not permissible. Ikhtilat in the study seats between male and female students, this is also blatant ikhtilat that leads to lewdness, and may Allah protect us from it. Ikhtilat in gatherings, if men and women gather and sit, this one next to this one, if a woman sits next to a man, with men on her right and left, and in front of her and behind her, this is not permissible. This is ikhtilat that is not permissible. This is fitnah, and may Allah protect us from it.
As for their claim that ikhtilat in the Sacred Mosque is not ikhtilat. This is not ikhtilat. This is not ikhtilat. They came for prayer and tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka'bah) and did not intend ikhtilat. But if ikhtilat occurs, it is due to dire necessity and without choice. Without choice.
And even in the tawaf area and the sa'y (walking between al-Safa and al-Marwah) area, it is not permissible for a person to touch a woman or mix with her. Rather, he should distance himself from her, distance himself from her as much as he can, and guard against her.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
The questioner asks: What is the definition of ikhtilat? Does any presence of the two sexes constitute ikhtilat? Or is the occurrence of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) a condition and criterion for it?
Answer:
Ikhtilat is well known. Ikhtilat is well known, and it is that which stirs up fitnah. It is when a woman sits next to a man, or sits in front of him at a table on the radio or on television, or at a table, while she is displaying her adornment, decorated and beautified, as if he were her husband or a mahram (a relative one may not marry).
This is blatant ikhtilat and is not permissible. Ikhtilat in the study seats between male and female students, this is also blatant ikhtilat that leads to lewdness, and may Allah protect us from it. Ikhtilat in gatherings, if men and women gather and sit, this one next to this one, if a woman sits next to a man, with men on her right and left, and in front of her and behind her, this is not permissible. This is ikhtilat that is not permissible. This is fitnah, and may Allah protect us from it.
As for their claim that ikhtilat in the Sacred Mosque is not ikhtilat. This is not ikhtilat. This is not ikhtilat. They came for prayer and tawaf (circumambulation of the Ka'bah) and did not intend ikhtilat. But if ikhtilat occurs, it is due to dire necessity and without choice. Without choice.
And even in the tawaf area and the sa'y (walking between al-Safa and al-Marwah) area, it is not permissible for a person to touch a woman or mix with her. Rather, he should distance himself from her, distance himself from her as much as he can, and guard against her.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you,
Source
بلوغ المرام [36] — alfawzan.live (45:10)
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