Visiting the sick in the hospital in the presence of fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)
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Your Eminence! Should I refrain from visiting a sick person in the hospital if there is fitnah (trial, discord or temptation) present, especially since this patient will be discharged in a few days?The Shaykh: What is the fitnah (trial, discord or temptation)?The questioner: Women who are clothed yet naked.
Suppose you need to buy legumes and they are in the market, and the market is full of women and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation),Do you stay in your house and say: would I not buy what the house needs because if I go out I will find evil?The questioner: No,O Shaykh! The Shaykh: This is like it.
The questioner: He will be discharged, O Shaykh! The Shaykh: You do not know when he will be discharged.
The questioner: It is a childbirth, O Shaykh! If it is a woman who has given birth, she will be discharged in two or three days.
Answer: Look, if there is no right between you,Meaning: that she is not your sister, nor your aunt, nor your maternal aunt, nor your mother, then the matter is broad, but if she is among your close relatives, then not visiting her,Rather, the correct thing is: not visiting the sick person,It is said: visiting,And he said: visiting, and this is a mistake, and it is not befitting for us to be severe with ourselves. Now, the airplane contains munkar (what is wrong),So should I say: should I not take the airplane because it contains munkar (what is wrong)? No, my brother! Go and reduce the munkar (what is wrong) as much as you can, and lower your gaze.
Suppose you need to buy legumes and they are in the market, and the market is full of women and fitnah (trial, discord or temptation),Do you stay in your house and say: would I not buy what the house needs because if I go out I will find evil?The questioner: No,O Shaykh! The Shaykh: This is like it.
The questioner: He will be discharged, O Shaykh! The Shaykh: You do not know when he will be discharged.
The questioner: It is a childbirth, O Shaykh! If it is a woman who has given birth, she will be discharged in two or three days.
Answer: Look, if there is no right between you,Meaning: that she is not your sister, nor your aunt, nor your maternal aunt, nor your mother, then the matter is broad, but if she is among your close relatives, then not visiting her,Rather, the correct thing is: not visiting the sick person,It is said: visiting,And he said: visiting, and this is a mistake, and it is not befitting for us to be severe with ourselves. Now, the airplane contains munkar (what is wrong),So should I say: should I not take the airplane because it contains munkar (what is wrong)? No, my brother! Go and reduce the munkar (what is wrong) as much as you can, and lower your gaze.