Kissing the Black Stone by a person in ihram if it has been perfumed
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If the Black Stone is perfumed with fragrance, is it permissible for a person in ihram to kiss it and touch it?
Answer:
Yes, and it does not harm him that the fragrance is on the stone and that it has a scent; this does not harm the person in ihram. Yes. What is forbidden is for the person in ihram to perfume himself; the person in ihram does not perfume himself. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If the Black Stone is perfumed with fragrance, is it permissible for a person in ihram to kiss it and touch it?
Answer:
Yes, and it does not harm him that the fragrance is on the stone and that it has a scent; this does not harm the person in ihram. Yes. What is forbidden is for the person in ihram to perfume himself; the person in ihram does not perfume himself. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل ومن مكايده التي كاد بها الإسلام وأهله : الحيل والمكر والخداع — islamhouse.com (1:04:10)
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