Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The Islamic preacher, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi, the former director general of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, sparked a wide interaction among activists on social media during the past two days, following an interview he gave in which he talked regarding the awrah and the lack of proof. Fasting 6 days of Shawwal.
Al-Ghamdi said in the interview he gave on the Gulf Rotana channel, Monday: “The hadith of the thigh is awrah.
He continued, “The ‘awrah for men and women is the thickened ‘awrah, which is the kiss and the anus only. As for anything other than that for the man, it is related to custom. What do people like as chivalry and so and so only… And the woman there is the thickened awrah and there is what she must cover because of God Almighty’s saying ‘and they do not show their adornment'” ‘The woman’s permission there is something called the duty of covering and does not mean that it is her private parts..’
With regard to fasting 6 days of the month of Shawwal according to the Hijri calendar, Al-Ghamdi said in the same interview: “It is not proven (the hadith) narrated by Abu Saeed Al-Khudri. As a work that was not transferred from them…”
