The Ruling on the Secret Habit and Repentance from It

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, he says: What is the ruling on the secret habit? Is it among the major sins? I fall into it, but I regret it when I do it, and I pledge myself to repent, but I do not stay away for long before Satan distracts me and I return to it. So what is your guidance, and what is your supplication for me to be delivered from it?

Answer:
This secret habit is forbidden because it is taking pleasure in a way other than what Allah has made lawful. Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, has made lawful taking pleasure with a wife and a slave woman.

⁽⁵⁾ And they who guard their private parts ⁽⁶⁾ Except from their wives or those their right hands possess, for indeed, they will not be blamed - ⁽⁷⁾ But whoever seeks beyond that

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ أَيْمَانُهُمْ فَإِنَّهُمْ غَيْرُ مَلُومِينَ فَمَنِ ابْتَغَىٰ وَرَاءَ ذَٰلِكَ

[Al-Mu'minun 23:5-7]

Other than a wife and a slave woman, those are the people of the secret habit, and among that is the evil secret habit, for it is taking pleasure other than with a wife and a slave woman. So it is from transgression. You must repent to Allah and leave this act. The one who practices the secret habit does not guard his private parts.

And they who guard their private parts

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ

[Al-Mu'minun 23:5]

, he does not guard his private parts. You must leave this act and repent to Allah, seek forgiveness for it, and not return to it. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، اللقاء الأسبوعي-05 من 32-لفضيلة الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان -حفظه الله- مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:12:59)

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