The Ruling on Correspondence via Devices
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What is the ruling on using a (cassette recorder)?
What is this?It sounds like a foreign word! The questioner: Correspondence.
The Shaykh: Correspondence of what?The questioner: Correspondence on a device, where they correspond with one another.
The Shaykh: So, if the correspondence contains good and is between men and men or women and women, it is good. But between men and women, it is not.
The questioner: No.
They mix men with women.
The Shaykh: How do they mix? Are they not messages?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: It is not permissible for a woman to write to a man.
The questioner: This is a device.
The Shaykh: I did not understand! One of the attendees: Like the telephone, O Shaykh: two devices; one device with one person, and one with the other, and the devices that are purchased mix with each other, having channels like the radio.
The Shaykh: Do you mean that you might open to someone and hear what he says to his companion? This is not permissible. It is not permissible because the speech between the two is a secret, so it is not permissible for anyone to eavesdrop on them.
What is this?It sounds like a foreign word! The questioner: Correspondence.
The Shaykh: Correspondence of what?The questioner: Correspondence on a device, where they correspond with one another.
The Shaykh: So, if the correspondence contains good and is between men and men or women and women, it is good. But between men and women, it is not.
The questioner: No.
They mix men with women.
The Shaykh: How do they mix? Are they not messages?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: It is not permissible for a woman to write to a man.
The questioner: This is a device.
The Shaykh: I did not understand! One of the attendees: Like the telephone, O Shaykh: two devices; one device with one person, and one with the other, and the devices that are purchased mix with each other, having channels like the radio.
The Shaykh: Do you mean that you might open to someone and hear what he says to his companion? This is not permissible. It is not permissible because the speech between the two is a secret, so it is not permissible for anyone to eavesdrop on them.