Advice to prevent women from going to the markets on the nights of the last ten days
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The questioner : A questioner says: Honorable Shaykh! There is an important and serious matter we observe in the last ten days of Ramadan, which is the large number of women going to the market to buy clothes for the festival. But the greatest calamity is that the night turns into day, and the season of worship and trade with Allah becomes a season of trade with creation, even though it is possible to go down during the day. So what is your advice to the women and the men, and what is your comment on this?
The Shaykh : My advice to these women and their guardians is to fear Allah the Exalted in these blessed nights in which reward is hoped for. If women go down to the markets, and especially since some women go down in a manner that involves fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), may Allah protect us from it, through perfume, beautiful clothing, and movements that arouse desire, then my advice to these people is to strictly prevent their women from going out at night.
And let each one of them say to each one of the women: whatever you need, give it to me and I will bring it, or I will go down with you during the day. As for the night, they should let creation rest from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), because the complaint about this issue is often heard.
It is well known that a woman crowding men is among the forbidden things. It is among the forbidden things, to the extent that it is recommended for a woman in the mosque to be far from the men. The best rows for women are the last ones. Indeed, a woman has no place in a row of men; she prays alone behind the entire row in order not to be close to a man. Whereas if a man came to pray in her place, his prayer would be invalid, because a man does not stand alone behind the row except for an excuse. As for her, she does not stand in the row; she is behind the row, all of this in order to be far from the women. And I see it obligatory for men to prevent women from going out on the nights of the last ten days, to protect them and to protect the young men who wander in these markets.
The Shaykh : My advice to these women and their guardians is to fear Allah the Exalted in these blessed nights in which reward is hoped for. If women go down to the markets, and especially since some women go down in a manner that involves fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), may Allah protect us from it, through perfume, beautiful clothing, and movements that arouse desire, then my advice to these people is to strictly prevent their women from going out at night.
And let each one of them say to each one of the women: whatever you need, give it to me and I will bring it, or I will go down with you during the day. As for the night, they should let creation rest from fitnah (trial, discord or temptation), because the complaint about this issue is often heard.
It is well known that a woman crowding men is among the forbidden things. It is among the forbidden things, to the extent that it is recommended for a woman in the mosque to be far from the men. The best rows for women are the last ones. Indeed, a woman has no place in a row of men; she prays alone behind the entire row in order not to be close to a man. Whereas if a man came to pray in her place, his prayer would be invalid, because a man does not stand alone behind the row except for an excuse. As for her, she does not stand in the row; she is behind the row, all of this in order to be far from the women. And I see it obligatory for men to prevent women from going out on the nights of the last ten days, to protect them and to protect the young men who wander in these markets.
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اللقاءات الرمضانية لعام 1411هـ - 7 — binothaimeen.net (33:07)
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