The Ruling on Searching One’s Children’s Belongings Out of Concern for Them
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Question:
This questioner is the mother of Husayn. She sent a set of questions saying: “Your Eminence, Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, some fathers, mothers, and siblings, out of concern and fear for their sons and daughters, look through and search the private things their children have. By this I mean: searching and looking through their belongings, books, and bags in order to know their conditions, their actions, and their behavior; out of fear for them from trials and bad companions, and so on. We ask Allah for safety. Does this fall under the things that are forbidden by the Shari’ah?”
Answer:
If there are reasons that call for this, there is nothing wrong with it as a precaution. Otherwise, one should not have a bad opinion of them.
As for when there are reasons to fear from, there is nothing wrong with searching when there is a need; out of fear for them from bad companions and callers to falsehood. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
This questioner is the mother of Husayn. She sent a set of questions saying: “Your Eminence, Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, some fathers, mothers, and siblings, out of concern and fear for their sons and daughters, look through and search the private things their children have. By this I mean: searching and looking through their belongings, books, and bags in order to know their conditions, their actions, and their behavior; out of fear for them from trials and bad companions, and so on. We ask Allah for safety. Does this fall under the things that are forbidden by the Shari’ah?”
Answer:
If there are reasons that call for this, there is nothing wrong with it as a precaution. Otherwise, one should not have a bad opinion of them.
As for when there are reasons to fear from, there is nothing wrong with searching when there is a need; out of fear for them from bad companions and callers to falsehood. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you with good.
Source
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