What is the ruling on going to private baths for a man and his wife for the purpose of bathing and therapy?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: There are private mineral baths where each person is with his wife in a room in these baths. His question is: Is it permissible to go there for bathing and therapy? And is it permissible for the wife to remove her clothes in that place? And there is, I mean, there is exposure and there are things that should not be mentioned.
Answer:
We do not mention them, even if it is her husband, because of their separation, for something of laxity will surely occur, with the prying of the wicked into their affairs and the eagerness to look at them, and there may be devices that reveal these things to them. So let them be modest in their homes and bathe in their homes, and they have hot water and they have cold water and they have everything, and praise be to Allah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: There are private mineral baths where each person is with his wife in a room in these baths. His question is: Is it permissible to go there for bathing and therapy? And is it permissible for the wife to remove her clothes in that place? And there is, I mean, there is exposure and there are things that should not be mentioned.
Answer:
We do not mention them, even if it is her husband, because of their separation, for something of laxity will surely occur, with the prying of the wicked into their affairs and the eagerness to look at them, and there may be devices that reveal these things to them. So let them be modest in their homes and bathe in their homes, and they have hot water and they have cold water and they have everything, and praise be to Allah. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم الذهاب إلى الحمامات الخاصة للرجل وزوجته بهدف الاستحمام والاستشفاء؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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