about what occurs between some mahram relatives that is forbidden, and what is the limit of hijab for the Muslim woman with the non-Muslim woman?
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The questioner : ... does the ruling of non-mahram strangers apply to them regarding shaking hands?
The Shaykh : This is the principle, unless there is something suspicious in ... because this system applies even to Muslim mahram relatives. The clear statement is this.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : You know of incidents that have occurred between a brother and his sister.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : The principle is that this is forbidden for her, but if there is fog in the atmosphere, then the ruling of mahram status is suspended.
The questioner : Yes, regarding their current situation, I mean.
The Shaykh : I am not saying the same thing.
The questioner : What is their situation?
Another questioner: Yes.
The questioner : What is their situation?
Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : He does not know.
Another questioner: ... for example, my sister, if she shakes hands now with her father, she shook hands with her mother, she appears in her adornment in front of her mother and her sisters, this ruling, I mean.
Another questioner: Of course, the first part is not clear ... .
The questioner : What is not clear to you?
Another questioner: I know that it is not obligatory to uncover in front of them and so on, and shaking hands.
The questioner : It is not permissible to uncover in front of them, and it is not permissible to shake hands with them, and ... .
The Shaykh : Who is it, for whom is it not permissible?
The questioner : The person, the Christian women, I mean ... they uncover in front of
Another questioner: People who ... .
The Shaykh : The issue, may Allah reward you, is not a general issue that you know; it is a general issue in the sense of the Muslim woman in front of the non-Muslim woman, whether she is Christian, Jewish, or Buddhist, she is not Muslim, and it is not permissible for her to appear before that non-Muslim woman except with her face and hands. So, the non-Muslim woman is treated like a man in relation to the Muslim woman. This is the general principle. Now, here is a specific issue. So, your mother, in relation to her sister, who will become your wife, if Allah wills, will be her mother-in-law, do you see? Also, your sister, in relation to her, excuse me, her sister, they will not be...
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : They will not be mahram.
The questioner : Her father.
The Shaykh : Her father.
The questioner : Her father.
The Shaykh : Her father, what will he be in relation to her? A mahram. So, is it permissible for her to shake hands with him? Is it permissible for her to appear in front of him as she appears in front of her brother and her father? This is the issue. So, I answered that this is the principle, because the verse is absolute:[An-Nur 24:31] etc. This is the principle. Did I make it clear to you up to here? This principle may be surrounded by something that obliges the Muslim scholar to suspend it, meaning to temporarily invalidate it. We gave an example earlier when we asked Abu Abdullah: Have you not been informed of some very reprehensible incidents where a brother did something to his sister, a Muslim brother did something to his Muslim sister? Of course, this has happened more than once, unfortunately. So, my answer to the brother Taysir was that the ruling here is like the ruling between Muslims themselves as a general principle, unless ... unless there is fog in the atmosphere, I mean, it appears, for example, from this one that he is a mahram to her, this wife, something of moral deviation, especially since ... non-Muslims do not prohibit and do not permit, they do not have the things that exist among Muslims. So, as long as there is nothing in the atmosphere, she treats her father as if he were Muslim, unless something suspicious is found. Did I make the issue clear to you now? Praise be to Allah.
The Shaykh : And it seems the questioner is the one involved in the story, even if he is behind a wall ... but I feel from his question and his tone in asking that he is the one with the problem. He says, I want to ask you a question, go ahead. He says, a man works, I mean, as a teacher, and he sent him with a purpose to his house, so he sent this purpose and greeted his wife, and as soon as the woman received the purpose from him, she closed the door on the man from the inside and demanded the sin from him. He refused. She said, by Allah, if you refuse, I will raise my voice and gather people around you and expose you before people unless you submit to what I want.
The questioner : A tax ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, so he said to me, what is he doing? I mean, he is now going to fall into a problem, I mean, his inner self is saying this scandal is going to happen, so why not settle it? But he remained talking about it as if it were about someone else, but I feel that he is like the doer or the one to whom this matter happened. I told him, instead of letting her shout, let him shout ... let him shout and the neighbors gather ... but.
That ... from the children, regardless of males and females, whoever hastens to clear his father's debt after his death, if one of them takes upon himself the repayment of the entire debt, this will be more beneficial for him in the Hereafter.
The questioner : ... the daughter, if she wants to participate, if for example he wants to divide among them, each one his share ... .
The Shaykh : It is obligatory.
The questioner : It is obligatory ... .
The Shaykh : Ah... are you taking it personally that Shaykh al-Tuwajiri responded to you, while he was responding to me regarding the commentary on the book of Sunnah?
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : Because he respects you and loves you and knows that you are from the people of the Sunnah, but this is his opinion that this hadith is authentic. I clarified to him how this hadith can be authentic, people, and the hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari contradicts it, and before that, the chain is not authentic, and Imam Ibn Khuzaymah weakened it in his book al-Tawhid. May Allah help us, I mean, taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) is like a calamity for all the groups.
The questioner : By Allah, I will go down with you and ... Islamic groups today on the face of the earth say this ... .
The Shaykh : Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : I mean, this, this, then this does not come if the door is opened, I mean, a door of evil that is not closed.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : This ... .
The Shaykh : This is the principle, unless there is something suspicious in ... because this system applies even to Muslim mahram relatives. The clear statement is this.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : You know of incidents that have occurred between a brother and his sister.
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : The principle is that this is forbidden for her, but if there is fog in the atmosphere, then the ruling of mahram status is suspended.
The questioner : Yes, regarding their current situation, I mean.
The Shaykh : I am not saying the same thing.
The questioner : What is their situation?
Another questioner: Yes.
The questioner : What is their situation?
Another questioner: ...
The Shaykh : He does not know.
Another questioner: ... for example, my sister, if she shakes hands now with her father, she shook hands with her mother, she appears in her adornment in front of her mother and her sisters, this ruling, I mean.
Another questioner: Of course, the first part is not clear ... .
The questioner : What is not clear to you?
Another questioner: I know that it is not obligatory to uncover in front of them and so on, and shaking hands.
The questioner : It is not permissible to uncover in front of them, and it is not permissible to shake hands with them, and ... .
The Shaykh : Who is it, for whom is it not permissible?
The questioner : The person, the Christian women, I mean ... they uncover in front of
Another questioner: People who ... .
The Shaykh : The issue, may Allah reward you, is not a general issue that you know; it is a general issue in the sense of the Muslim woman in front of the non-Muslim woman, whether she is Christian, Jewish, or Buddhist, she is not Muslim, and it is not permissible for her to appear before that non-Muslim woman except with her face and hands. So, the non-Muslim woman is treated like a man in relation to the Muslim woman. This is the general principle. Now, here is a specific issue. So, your mother, in relation to her sister, who will become your wife, if Allah wills, will be her mother-in-law, do you see? Also, your sister, in relation to her, excuse me, her sister, they will not be...
The questioner : No.
The Shaykh : They will not be mahram.
The questioner : Her father.
The Shaykh : Her father.
The questioner : Her father.
The Shaykh : Her father, what will he be in relation to her? A mahram. So, is it permissible for her to shake hands with him? Is it permissible for her to appear in front of him as she appears in front of her brother and her father? This is the issue. So, I answered that this is the principle, because the verse is absolute:
And tell the believing women to reduce [some] of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which [necessarily] appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers, their brothers' sons, their sisters' sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
ولا يبدين زينتهن إلا لبعولتهن أو آبائهن أو آبنائهنThe Shaykh : And it seems the questioner is the one involved in the story, even if he is behind a wall ... but I feel from his question and his tone in asking that he is the one with the problem. He says, I want to ask you a question, go ahead. He says, a man works, I mean, as a teacher, and he sent him with a purpose to his house, so he sent this purpose and greeted his wife, and as soon as the woman received the purpose from him, she closed the door on the man from the inside and demanded the sin from him. He refused. She said, by Allah, if you refuse, I will raise my voice and gather people around you and expose you before people unless you submit to what I want.
The questioner : A tax ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, so he said to me, what is he doing? I mean, he is now going to fall into a problem, I mean, his inner self is saying this scandal is going to happen, so why not settle it? But he remained talking about it as if it were about someone else, but I feel that he is like the doer or the one to whom this matter happened. I told him, instead of letting her shout, let him shout ... let him shout and the neighbors gather ... but.
That ... from the children, regardless of males and females, whoever hastens to clear his father's debt after his death, if one of them takes upon himself the repayment of the entire debt, this will be more beneficial for him in the Hereafter.
The questioner : ... the daughter, if she wants to participate, if for example he wants to divide among them, each one his share ... .
The Shaykh : It is obligatory.
The questioner : It is obligatory ... .
The Shaykh : Ah... are you taking it personally that Shaykh al-Tuwajiri responded to you, while he was responding to me regarding the commentary on the book of Sunnah?
The questioner : Yes, exactly.
The Shaykh : Because he respects you and loves you and knows that you are from the people of the Sunnah, but this is his opinion that this hadith is authentic. I clarified to him how this hadith can be authentic, people, and the hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari contradicts it, and before that, the chain is not authentic, and Imam Ibn Khuzaymah weakened it in his book al-Tawhid. May Allah help us, I mean, taqlid (following a scholar without knowing his evidence) is like a calamity for all the groups.
The questioner : By Allah, I will go down with you and ... Islamic groups today on the face of the earth say this ... .
The Shaykh : Allahu Akbar.
The questioner : I mean, this, this, then this does not come if the door is opened, I mean, a door of evil that is not closed.
The Shaykh : ... .
The questioner : This ... .