I know that masturbation is mamnuu,
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this question:
assalamalaikum,
i want to know one thing regarding masturbation, i know that masturbation is
mamnuu, but, i am married and i am living out of my country, for job, and i
meet my wife once a year, can i masturbate thinking of my wife, (as i am not
thinking of any other woman), kindly advise me, because it is very difficult to
live outside for a long time, OR - is doing sex with some other woman is
allowed or not.
kindly
answer me, as i do not want to fall into gunaah, and suggest me what to do in
this situation
thanking
you
allahafiz
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Answer:
Masturbate wife
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no person, no
grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Dear and beloved brother, all the scholars and jurists of
the major schools of thought are unanimous in their opinion that the act of
masturbation is a sin in the Sight of the Lord.
Your
Question: is doing sex with some other woman is allowed or not.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 17 Surah Israa verse 32:
Do not even go near
‘zina’ (fornication or adultery) for it is a very indecent thing and a very
evil way!
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 24 Surah Noor verse 2:
The woman and the man
guilty of ‘zina’ (fornication), flog
each one of them with a hundred stripes,
and let not pity for them restrain you in regard to a matter prescribed
by Allah; if indeed you believe in Allah
and the Last Day! And let a section of
the believers witness the punishment inflicted on them.
Zina
(adultery) is considered amongst the gravest sins in Islam. One can imagine the severity of the sin by
the punishment Allah and His Messenger (saws) have decreed for the sin. If one is living in an Islamic State and gets
convicted of the sin of zina (adultery),
the punishment prescribed by Allah and His Messenger (saws) is that
he/she should be stoned to death!! And
if the person dies without making Taubah or asking repentance from Allah
Subhanah in the life of this world, the punishment of the Hereafter in the Just
Court of Allah Subhanah is even more severe and more lasting than the
punishment of the world!!
Zina is considered such an evil
and such a grave sin that Allah Subhanah has advised the believers in the Holy
Quran 17:32 .. ‘Do not even go near ‘zina’….’. The believers are commanded by their
Lord Most High to not to even go near zina,
if indeed they fear Allah and the Last Day!!!
Thus having sexual or conjugal relationships with any
woman other than one’s legally wedded wife is absolutely forbidden and
considered amongst the gravest sins in Islam.
Your Question:
kindly answer me, as i do not want to fall into gunaah, and suggest me what to
do in this situation
Beloved brother, considering the situation that you have
related, your only legal options are:
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
