The Ruling on Selling Women’s Perfumes

Question:
This last question: The questioner asks, is it permissible to sell women’s perfumes in a country where women use them when they go out of their homes?

Answer:
No, one should not sell to women whom he knows will use it when they go out of their homes, because this is aiding in this, aiding in the violation of the Shari’ah. A woman does not go out of her home; if she goes out of her home wearing perfume, she commits a great sin. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) even described that as adultery, because zina is not limited to zina of the private parts; rather, that is its most severe and greatest form. But looking at what is not permissible is zina. The eye commits zina, and its zina is looking. The hand commits zina, and its zina is touching. The foot commits zina, and its zina is walking toward sin. So zina varies, some of it being more severe than other, and its most severe is zina of the private parts, may Allah protect us from it. Yes.