What is the ruling on these stickers found in tailoring shops and their accessories?
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The questioner : They are found in tailoring shops and their accessories. I have attached images of them for you. A woman or girl applies them to her body for days, or perhaps hours.
The Shaykh : To her body, or to her clothes?
The questioner : To her body, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : From the inside?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Ah, an image like a tattoo.
The questioner : A woman or girl applies them to her body for days, or perhaps hours. She may place them in areas that are not appropriate to expose and wears a transparent garment over them so that they show. This has begun to spread in occasions and the like. He says: images of animals, consisting of images of animals, snakes, scorpions, birds, and symbols that have meanings among disbelievers, pharaohs, and others. They have a substance that prevents water from reaching the skin. What is the ruling on applying them, buying them, and selling them? Is there any advice for fathers and guardians who do not know what is happening to their daughters? A person told me that he may have a tattoo drawn on the body that does not come out. May Allah reward you with good and make you a key to good and a lock against evil.
The Shaykh : Amen. Amen. This is one of the matters I have mentioned before, which is defeatism in the face of what comes to us from our enemies.
First: It is not permissible to attach these images to bodies under any circumstances, even if they are separate. I mean, if these are now in front of me. Yes. In front of me are scorpions, I don't know what, cats or whatever. In any case: if a woman attached them like this, it would be forbidden for her. How much more so when she sticks them to her body part, preventing water from reaching it during ablution or the full ritual bath? Perhaps an image from them remains, as the questioner said, becoming like a tattoo. All of this is forbidden. All of this must be prevented. If any of you sees a grocer or others selling this thing, let him inform the authorities in order to prevent it. And if there is a punishment that is imposed. As for us letting the beasts of the children of Adam play with us this way. They take our money and make us sinful. This is not what is fitting, O people. Fear Allah, consult in what is right, and forbid what is wrong. Any person who sees this, it is obligatory for him to inform the authorities, either the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Vice, or the police, or the governorate, until it reaches the Ministry of Commerce. The Ministry of Commerce must prevent this, because it is responsible before Allah the Exalted for allowing these things to enter our country, corrupting our women and those resembling women. And people are just watching this. This is not correct. Cooperate in righteousness and piety.
In summary: Placing these papers with images on clothes or on the body is forbidden and not permissible. Printing them on the skin so that there is a layer preventing water from reaching it is not permissible. Placing them on the skin so that the image is imprinted and does not come off with water is not permissible. Enabling our women and our foolish people to have this is not permissible. Approving the shops that sell this is not permissible. It is obligatory for us, the people, if we see such a thing, to report it to the authorities, and the authorities must report it to the highest authority in the country so that he can prevent it. As for leaving the reins loose, so that whoever wants to bring something brings it. And we are like chickens to which grain containing poison is placed; they eat this grain and die. This is a mistake. You are the responsible ones. I cannot walk to every shop and look at what is in it. And I cannot change everything. But you, and praise be to Allah, can look at these shops and advise them first. If they reform, that is what is required; otherwise, report them to the authorities. This is what is in your trust. And I hope the brother who gave us this will give it to me, and I will deal with it as I wish, if Allah wills. Is it mine? Good.
The Shaykh : To her body, or to her clothes?
The questioner : To her body, O Shaykh.
The Shaykh : From the inside?
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Ah, an image like a tattoo.
The questioner : A woman or girl applies them to her body for days, or perhaps hours. She may place them in areas that are not appropriate to expose and wears a transparent garment over them so that they show. This has begun to spread in occasions and the like. He says: images of animals, consisting of images of animals, snakes, scorpions, birds, and symbols that have meanings among disbelievers, pharaohs, and others. They have a substance that prevents water from reaching the skin. What is the ruling on applying them, buying them, and selling them? Is there any advice for fathers and guardians who do not know what is happening to their daughters? A person told me that he may have a tattoo drawn on the body that does not come out. May Allah reward you with good and make you a key to good and a lock against evil.
The Shaykh : Amen. Amen. This is one of the matters I have mentioned before, which is defeatism in the face of what comes to us from our enemies.
First: It is not permissible to attach these images to bodies under any circumstances, even if they are separate. I mean, if these are now in front of me. Yes. In front of me are scorpions, I don't know what, cats or whatever. In any case: if a woman attached them like this, it would be forbidden for her. How much more so when she sticks them to her body part, preventing water from reaching it during ablution or the full ritual bath? Perhaps an image from them remains, as the questioner said, becoming like a tattoo. All of this is forbidden. All of this must be prevented. If any of you sees a grocer or others selling this thing, let him inform the authorities in order to prevent it. And if there is a punishment that is imposed. As for us letting the beasts of the children of Adam play with us this way. They take our money and make us sinful. This is not what is fitting, O people. Fear Allah, consult in what is right, and forbid what is wrong. Any person who sees this, it is obligatory for him to inform the authorities, either the Commission for Promoting Virtue and Prohibiting Vice, or the police, or the governorate, until it reaches the Ministry of Commerce. The Ministry of Commerce must prevent this, because it is responsible before Allah the Exalted for allowing these things to enter our country, corrupting our women and those resembling women. And people are just watching this. This is not correct. Cooperate in righteousness and piety.
In summary: Placing these papers with images on clothes or on the body is forbidden and not permissible. Printing them on the skin so that there is a layer preventing water from reaching it is not permissible. Placing them on the skin so that the image is imprinted and does not come off with water is not permissible. Enabling our women and our foolish people to have this is not permissible. Approving the shops that sell this is not permissible. It is obligatory for us, the people, if we see such a thing, to report it to the authorities, and the authorities must report it to the highest authority in the country so that he can prevent it. As for leaving the reins loose, so that whoever wants to bring something brings it. And we are like chickens to which grain containing poison is placed; they eat this grain and die. This is a mistake. You are the responsible ones. I cannot walk to every shop and look at what is in it. And I cannot change everything. But you, and praise be to Allah, can look at these shops and advise them first. If they reform, that is what is required; otherwise, report them to the authorities. This is what is in your trust. And I hope the brother who gave us this will give it to me, and I will deal with it as I wish, if Allah wills. Is it mine? Good.