The Ruling on Looking at the Female Servant
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is your advice to those who are lax in looking at the female servant these days, and that they are like slave women?
Answer:
No, this is not permissible; it is forbidden. We are not like slave women. Slave women are owned, and this one is not owned. She is hired, hired for service, and she is not owned. So it is not permissible to look at her and say she is like an owned slave. No, she is a stranger.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is your advice to those who are lax in looking at the female servant these days, and that they are like slave women?
Answer:
No, this is not permissible; it is forbidden. We are not like slave women. Slave women are owned, and this one is not owned. She is hired, hired for service, and she is not owned. So it is not permissible to look at her and say she is like an owned slave. No, she is a stranger.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب ما جاء في أم الولد — islamhouse.com (32:45)
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