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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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If women fear fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), what is the ruling on their attending the congregation?

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The questioner : If fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) is feared by going out. Is fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) feared by going out? I do not want the mi...

The Shaykh : I want the ruling if fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) is feared by going out. It may become forbidden for you.

The questioner : Meaning, is it? Meaning, it is not permissible; it shifts from permissibility to dislike or prohibition depending on the strength of the expectation. So, do you have a principle upon which you base this ruling by which you shifted the ruling of this issue from permissibility to prohibition or dislike? By analogy to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Any woman who applies perfume, let her not attend the congregational prayer." Maghrib. The 'Isha' prayer. By analogy to that, because of the presence of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), which is the perfume, the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) prevented her from going out.

The Shaykh : We say she goes out unless she does what causes fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), but if she does not do what causes fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), she goes out normally and fears fitnah (trial, discord or temptation),

The questioner : I and we know.

The Shaykh : Either it is disliked or it is forbidden.

The questioner : Depending on.

The Shaykh : Yes, depending on the strength of the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation).

The questioner : If there is a confirmed preventer of its occurrence, then it is to be feared, and if there is doubt, then the bridge is the noble ones.

The Shaykh : Okay, my question now, after knowing the ruling, do you have evidence or a reasoning upon which you based this ruling?

The questioner : Nabil.

The Shaykh : Or a comment.

The questioner : Yes, when the Prophet said
(peace and blessings be upon him) "Do not prevent the women of Allah from the mosques of Allah, and their homes are better for them."صلى الله عليه وسلم لا تمنع إبناء الله مساجد الله وبيوتهن خير لهن
, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) indicated to the women that the house is better for them than their going out.

The Shaykh : What is this, I want? Yes, Salman.

The questioner : The principle is that averting harms takes precedence over securing benefits.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : Okay, the permissible is the lowest principle you must know: the mubah (permissible). Everything mubah (permissible) can have the five rulings applied to it. Everything mubah (permissible) can have the five rulings applied to it, meaning it can be obligatory, forbidden, disliked, or recommended, depending on what it leads to.

The Shaykh : Depending on what it leads to, and for this reason, some scholars claimed that it is not possible for something to exist that is called mubah (permissible).
Source قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، 3025إذا خشيت النساء الفتنة ما حكم حضورها للجماعة؟📔 الشرح الممتع على زاد المستقنع - ابن عثيمين — youtube.com

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