What is the ruling on gold-plated items?
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The questioner : O Shaykh, regarding gold-plated items.
Please proceed.
The Shaykh : I mentioned, among other things, an authentic text from Abu Hurayrah that he said to his daughter: "O my daughter, do not wear gold, for I fear the Fire for you." And I mentioned, in what I mentioned in "Etiquettes of the Wedding" from a manuscript book that had not been printed, but is now printed; it is "Sharh al-Sunnah" by al-Baghawi, which is sixteen volumes; I took it from a manuscript that he mentioned the disagreement in the issue of the gold ring for women, and he explicitly stated that some people disliked it and others permitted it.
The questioner : "Some people" means many?
The Shaykh : Oh?
The questioner : "Some people" means many, not few?
The Shaykh : Fine; so where is the consensus? But it is as Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) explains, he says: They do not know who said the opposite of their view; so what do they say? There is consensus on such-and-such. Where do they know the consensus from? Where do they need to encompass the statements of the scholars, especially in that time when means of bringing distant things close were not available? Therefore, a person, in reality, when he is filled with the Sunnah and the evidence of the Sunnah, he does not care about the statements of people and the statements of scholars.
Please proceed.
The Shaykh : I mentioned, among other things, an authentic text from Abu Hurayrah that he said to his daughter: "O my daughter, do not wear gold, for I fear the Fire for you." And I mentioned, in what I mentioned in "Etiquettes of the Wedding" from a manuscript book that had not been printed, but is now printed; it is "Sharh al-Sunnah" by al-Baghawi, which is sixteen volumes; I took it from a manuscript that he mentioned the disagreement in the issue of the gold ring for women, and he explicitly stated that some people disliked it and others permitted it.
The questioner : "Some people" means many?
The Shaykh : Oh?
The questioner : "Some people" means many, not few?
The Shaykh : Fine; so where is the consensus? But it is as Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) explains, he says: They do not know who said the opposite of their view; so what do they say? There is consensus on such-and-such. Where do they know the consensus from? Where do they need to encompass the statements of the scholars, especially in that time when means of bringing distant things close were not available? Therefore, a person, in reality, when he is filled with the Sunnah and the evidence of the Sunnah, he does not care about the statements of people and the statements of scholars.
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