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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
You can not touch a non-mahram.
ولا يحل له أن يمس وجهها ولا كفيها وإن كان يأمن الشهوة
It is not permitted to (even) touch the face or the hand (of a non-mahram) even when there is safety from lust
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For a man, is looking at uncovered non-mahram women forbidden?
I'll assume this question is about men looking at uncovered women; rulings for women looking at uncovered women are different.
Basically it boils down to the ayah:
Tell the believing men to reduce ...
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Does a Muslim woman need to cover her entire body (including hands and face) during prayer if a non-mahram man can see her?
In these three (95577, 11774 and 21536) fatwas from islamqa the author or mufti tries to proove that covering the face is the correct view of Islam. However one could find ahadith and Quran rulings ...
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Is a mahram allowed to touch a non-mahram in order to rescue them?
Basically, even the people holding the opinion that it isn't allowed to touch a non-mahram woman, would allow you to do so in situations where a life is on the stake.
According to this answer:
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Can I use chat?
The answer somehow depends on your behavior and your intention in a chat room.
Basically one is allowed to greet a non-Mahram and make any thing which falls under necessary parts of conversation with ...
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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
The short answer is a clear and undisputed no. As already explained in the response by UmH, this is because even looking at non-mahram women is not allowed.
Beyond even the obvious evidence of the ...
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Is a mahram allowed to touch a non-mahram in order to rescue them?
Emergencies result in relaxation or altogether abandonments of normal circumstance applications. A drowning person can not be let drowned for the reason of avoiding touching a Na-Mehram. It would ...
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Helping a choking person
If there was a woman around who could do abdominal thrusts/CPR then you shouldn't. BUT if there wasn't another woman around then it was perfectly fine for you to do so (as long as you "touch" only as ...
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If Asma bint Abu Bakr accepted the Prophet's offering of a ride, would the Prophet have committed a sin?
The hadith is quoted in both sahihs (al-Bukari and Muslim)
Let's start by quoting the ahadith prohibiting what scholars call "Khulwa or Khulwah":
Ibn 'Umar narrated:
" 'Umar delivered a Khutbah ...
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Is my husband's ex-wife haram to him in the sense of being alone with him without me being present?
No, he can't be with her alone unless some other person mahram to her is present - like a brother or her kids. If their kids are present, then there is no need for you to be there.
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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
no we can not not hug or kiss our non blooded sister because she is not included in our mehram the mehram which is recognized by islam is only our blooded sister ,mother,phupho,khala,grand mother and ...
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what is umrah condition for old women if she had no mehram?
According to Saudi law:
Women over the age of forty-five (45) may travel without a Mahram with an organized group, They must, however submits a no objection letter from her husband, son or brother ...
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Can I perform Umrah with my paternal uncle?
Allah the almighty says:
Prohibited to you [for marriage] are ... your brother's daughters, your sister's daughters, .... (4:23)
This means your paternal uncle is a mahram and you can therefore ...
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Our prayer will be accepted or not if a na_mehram come and we offering our prayer?
The prayer of a woman does not invalidate if a man see her, even if they are non-mahrams.
However, it is forbidden for a non-mahram to enter to women in their own places because of fear of ...
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Under which circumstances are we allowed to touch non-mahram?
The situation that you raised regarding your bike is not extreme. I myself have faced similar situations multiple times and instead of dropping them by my bike, I prefer hiring them a taxi/rickshaw/...
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Under which circumstances are we allowed to touch non-mahram?
It is forbidden for non-mahram to ride that close as on bike, don't feel bad. You have done good for both yourself and her. Allah knows better and this apparent favor could have ended in problem for ...
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"A man should look at the woman he wants to marry to get induced to marry her": How should a blind man do about it?
Its permitted for the man to send someone else to see her on his behalf and then describe her to him, a blind man can take this option. This intermediary is either a woman relative of him or a mahram ...
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Can you talk with a non-Mahram if you are gay (but of course won't do any homosexual acts)?
As-salaam walikum Brother,
The answer is no. This is because:
She might be attracted to you. Which is likely as most women are attracted to men.
This increases the chance of zina, which is less ...
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Is it ok to wear beautiful dress in front of non mahram?
A women must not be a point of attraction of all the men around instead she should be covered from head to toe in front of non-mahrams.
Talking for men's perspective, I would like no other man to ...
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is laughing of women in front of non mehram men okay?
The prohibition in the verse
فلا تخضعن بالقول فيطمع الذي في قلبه مرض وقلن قولا معروفا
Do not be soft in speech [to men], lest he in whose heart is disease should covet, but speak with appropriate ...
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Question about guest of hazrat A'isha R.A?
What's to explain? The Qur'an is very clear about this:
4 And those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses - lash them with eighty lashes and do not accept from them testimony ...
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Question about guest of hazrat A'isha R.A?
I will add to goldPseudo's answer that the literal hadith only says that the man was hosted as a guest of Aisha. This does not mean that he was lodged in the same house where Aisha lived and slept ...
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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
No, it is not allow in Islam that a non mahram kiss or touch any woman. In our religion Islam, women should behave strickly with non-mahram.
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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
According to the definition of Islam it is not allowed to touch or even look to the non maharm this rule is for both men and women
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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
Not allow to touch non-mahram, even restriction for making relation with non-mahram
"O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves [part] ...
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Can I kiss or hug my friend's wife who is like a sister to me?
No it's not allowed in Islam to hug or kiss the other girl which is not your sister mother aunts grandmothers and mother in law.Only these few relations u can hug or kiss otherwise it is not allowed ...
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Is it possible to marry your wife's sister?
thank you for your question brother, to simplify, you asked is marrying two wives who are sisters haram (impermissible) or not in islam. My answer is that in islam it is not permissible to marry two ...
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Is it permitted to sit with your sister in law in same room?
Provided you are not alone with them then it is permitted for you to sit with your sisters in law if they are wearing a headscarf and dressed modestly.
But you should guard against sin and lower ...
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When is it possible to look at the opposite sex who is not mahram?
If there is not any kind of fitna and a good intention, there is nothing wrong to look into a face of a woman in public place such as hospital, if it is necessarily and short. But it is better not to ...
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Understanding the Ruling on being in an isolated place for opposite gender
There are orders in Islam about sin to restrict it and there are order about prevention to avoid committing sin.
Your examples above definitely not comes in this prevention if you don't have ...
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