The Ruling on the Secret Habit and Advice for One Who Is Afflicted by It
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: I am a man far from my family, and at times Satan plays with me, so I fall into the secret habit. He asks: What is the ruling on this habit, and what is your advice to me in this matter?
Answer:
The secret habit is forbidden, and if it is harmful, it is forbidden and harmful; it harms you. So avoid it. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Mu'minun 23:5-6] Is this not an act of transgression? Because there is no wife and no slave woman, so it is forbidden and also an act of transgression.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: I am a man far from my family, and at times Satan plays with me, so I fall into the secret habit. He asks: What is the ruling on this habit, and what is your advice to me in this matter?
Answer:
The secret habit is forbidden, and if it is harmful, it is forbidden and harmful; it harms you. So avoid it. Allah the Exalted said:
(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
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تتمة فصل ثم جرى الأمر على السداد والاستقامة والأمة واحدة والدين واحد والمعبود واحد — islamhouse.com (58:16)
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