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Wednesday 01 June 2022
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The Egyptian Dar Al Iftaa confirmed that there are some issues involved in the practice of masturbation.
She explained in her fatwa that masturbation is the expulsion of semen without intercourse while awake. Vomiting for desire, which is forbidden by Sharia.
She pointed out that the masturbator sought following his lust, and no exception is made from the sanctity of masturbation except what was in the hands of the wife to her husband and vice versa.
She indicated that masturbation entails the following:
1- Entitlement to sin by falling into sin, and there is no difference in its sanctity between a man and a woman.
2- The obligation of repentance on the one who did that, by giving up this bad habit, regretting what he neglected in the right of God Almighty, and resolving not to return to it.
3- The occurrence of impurity by ejaculating semen with desire. It is necessary to perform ghusl by circulating the body with absolute water with the intention of removing the major event for purification.
4- Masturbation is one of the things that break the fast, if it occurs during the day in Ramadan, then it is necessary to make up the day, and repent from this sin, and from the sin of intentionally breaking the fast in Ramadan.
The Dar Al-Iftaa enumerated the ways to get rid of masturbation as follows:
1- Not being alone with oneself too much.
2- Turning a blind eye to taboos.
3- Not thinking regarding the stimuli of lust.
4- Being in good company that helps a person to be upright.
5- Excessive fasting of supererogatory fasts; فعن عبد الله بن مسعود رضي الله عنه قال: كُنَّا مَعَ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآله وسَلَّمَ شَبَابًا لَا نَجِدُ شَيْئًا، فَقَالَ لَنَا رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآله وسَلَّمَ: «يَا مَعْشَرَ الشَّبَابِ، مَنِ اسْتَطَاعَ البَاءَةَ فَلْيَتَزَوَّجْ، فَإِنَّهُ أَغَضُّ لِلْبَصَرِ وَأَحْصَنُ لِلْفَرْجِ، وَمَنْ If he is not able to fast, then it is for him to fast.” Narrated by Al-Bukhari in his Sahih.
6- Looking at the consequences of matters, and that God Almighty sees you, so you have to observe God Almighty, respect His look at you, and be ashamed that He finds you disobedient to Him. of the people, and they do not take lightly of God and He is with them.
Dr. Muhammad Ibrahim Al-Ashmawy, a professor of hadith at Al-Azhar University, said that the permissibility of masturbation is a case if a person fears that he will fall into adultery, in accordance with the rule of committing the lesser of two evils and the lesser of two evils.
Al-Ashmawy added, in statements to Masrawy, that the practice of this habit is prompted by the effervescence of youth and its fullness with energy, and the absence of a natural outlet for the discharge of this energy, with the availability of the environment that provokes them to these latent instincts, and stirs in them those static desires, such as the nakedness of women, their makeup, their perfume, their breaking, their submission to words and their mixing. Men, their conversation and ease of access, as well as addiction to watching pornographic films and sexual clips.
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