If a slave wishes to marry his master's female slave and she is beautiful, what is the ruling?
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The questioner : As for the slave, if we say that his master's female slave is uncovered before him, but for example, if he sees her and she is beautiful, and he means...
The Shaykh : he becomes captivated by her.
The questioner : His soul, for example, longs for intercourse.
The Shaykh : The point is that he becomes captivated by her.
The questioner : Yes, so how, for example, means...
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, O servant of Allah. And this... we have established in this gathering that the permissible thing may become obligatory or forbidden depending on what it leads to, or not?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Every permissible thing is not [necessarily] this issue; every permissible thing may become forbidden or obligatory. Have you seen that selling is lawful or forbidden?
The questioner : It is lawful.
The Shaykh : All right, if someone sells a weapon to a person during a fitnah (trial/discord), what would that be?
The questioner : Forbidden.
The Shaykh : It would be forbidden. All right, and if a person buys water for wudu (ablution), that purchase would be obligatory. This, my brothers, is a principle: understand that the permissible thing is permissible in its original state, but something may befall it that makes it obligatory for another or forbidden for another. So if we say it is permissible for the master's female slave to uncover her face before her slave, and we fear that this will lead to fitnah (trial/discord), what would this permissible thing become?
The questioner : Forbidden.
The Shaykh : It would become forbidden. This is a principle. I do not like for you to ask about a branch of it. We also mentioned in the "Nizam al-Qawa'id" (System of Principles) that whoever misses the fundamentals is deprived of reaching [the goal]. Yes?
The Shaykh : he becomes captivated by her.
The questioner : His soul, for example, longs for intercourse.
The Shaykh : The point is that he becomes captivated by her.
The questioner : Yes, so how, for example, means...
The Shaykh : May Allah guide you, O servant of Allah. And this... we have established in this gathering that the permissible thing may become obligatory or forbidden depending on what it leads to, or not?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Every permissible thing is not [necessarily] this issue; every permissible thing may become forbidden or obligatory. Have you seen that selling is lawful or forbidden?
The questioner : It is lawful.
The Shaykh : All right, if someone sells a weapon to a person during a fitnah (trial/discord), what would that be?
The questioner : Forbidden.
The Shaykh : It would be forbidden. All right, and if a person buys water for wudu (ablution), that purchase would be obligatory. This, my brothers, is a principle: understand that the permissible thing is permissible in its original state, but something may befall it that makes it obligatory for another or forbidden for another. So if we say it is permissible for the master's female slave to uncover her face before her slave, and we fear that this will lead to fitnah (trial/discord), what would this permissible thing become?
The questioner : Forbidden.
The Shaykh : It would become forbidden. This is a principle. I do not like for you to ask about a branch of it. We also mentioned in the "Nizam al-Qawa'id" (System of Principles) that whoever misses the fundamentals is deprived of reaching [the goal]. Yes?