The Ruling on the Secret Habit and Its Punishment
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who falls into the secret habit? And does a legal punishment follow from it?
The Shaykh:
The secret habit is forbidden. He must repent from it and leave it. Yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
[Al-Mu'minun 23:5-6] Allah has not permitted anything except the wife or what the right hand possesses. The secret habit falls under “whoever seeks beyond that”; the secret habit falls under His saying, “whoever seeks beyond” [Al-Munafiqun 63:9] the transgressors. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on one who falls into the secret habit? And does a legal punishment follow from it?
The Shaykh:
The secret habit is forbidden. He must repent from it and leave it. Yes.
The presenter:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
guard their private parts (6) Except from their wives or those their right hands possess
لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْthat - then those are
ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ
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شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب النهي عن ثمن عسب الفحل — islamhouse.com (1:10:02)
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