What is your advice for one who is afflicted with the secret habit and is unable to marry?

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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, one who is afflicted with committing the secret habit and is unable to marry, what is your advice for him?

Answer:
The secret habit is forbidden. One should not engage in it; he should repent to Allah (Mighty and Majestic) and not engage in it, because it is a forbidden form of pleasure.

⁽⁵⁾ And they who guard their private parts ⁽⁶⁾ Except from their wives or those

وَالَّذِينَ هُمْ لِفُرُوجِهِمْ حَافِظُونَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ أَزْوَاجِهِمْ أَوْ مَا مَلَكَتْ

[Al-Mu'minun 23:5-6]

Therefore, pleasure is not permitted except with a wife or a

blamed - ⁽⁷⁾ But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors -

مَلُومِينَ فَمَنِ ابْتَغَىٰ وَرَاءَ ذَٰلِكَ فَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْعَادُونَ

[Al-Mu'minun 23:6-7]

. The secret habit is an act of aggression because it is pleasure through what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has not made lawful. He must repent to Allah. If he is able to marry, he should marry. If he is not able, he should be patient.

But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty.

وَلْيَسْتَعْفِفِ الَّذِينَ لَا يَجِدُونَ نِكَاحًا حَتَّىٰ يُغْنِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ مِن فَضْلِهِ

[An-Nur 24:33]

He should restrain himself; he should restrain himself from fornication and from the secret habit. Yes.

Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [2952- 4717] ما نصيحتكم لمن ابتلي بالعادة السرية ولا يستطيع الزواج؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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