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Dear sir

I want to ask one question is some one muslim young boy is allowed to invite a young non-muslim female into islam? and to sponsor her in respect of her living expenses?

History

I met one girl on internet and we had chat with each other. During discussuion i came to know that she is interested in ISLAM. She herself told me that she want to come into ISLAM

but where she is living she has no such atmosphere and circumstances to accept ISLAM and to follow ISLAM. Then i told her if you want i can bear your expenses of visa and living expenses just

for the sake of ISLAM. Come into ISLAM and be a true muslima. Which she agreed.she has to travel to new country where she has no relatives. I have arrange the accomodation for her with other girls and i have the intention not to meet her alone. If i have to meet her i will meet her in the presence of my brother's wife.

I told some of my close friends that i am doing this just for ISLAM they said no no it is not good your reputation among your mates will be under clouds.My intention is 100% pure and Allah knows very well.

Just advice me whether is it allowed or not?

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Answer:

Sponsor non-mehram girl invite to islam

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 none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Your Question: I met one girl on internet and we had chat with each other.

Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 24 Surah Noor verses 30-31:

30 Say to the believing men that they should lower their gaze and (scrupulously) guard their modesty: that will make for greater purity for them: and Allah is well acquainted with all that they do.

31 And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and (scrupulously) guard their modesty.

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 3118 Narrated by Umar ibn al-Khattab

The Prophet (saws) said, "Whenever a man is alone with a (non-mehram)woman, the Shaytaan makes the third."

Respected brother in Islam, first and foremost, it is not lawful for a believer who sincerely fears Allah and the Last Day and desires to scrupulously guard his modesty….to meet and/or casually interact with a non-mehram member of the opposite sex!

Your Question: I told some of my close friends that i am doing this just for ISLAM they said no no it is not good your reputation among your mates will be under clouds.My intention is 100% pure and Allah knows very well.

Just advice me whether is it allowed or not?

Respected brother in Islam, as pure and as noble as your intentions to invite one amongst the disbelievers to the Truth of Islam may be…..such is the natural and inherent attraction between two non-mehram members of the opposite sex, that the casual interaction between the two of them is, without an iota of a doubt, a path which perchance may lead them to the absolute abomination and intolerable sin of ‘zina’ (illegal sexual intercourse)…….

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!

Your Question: Just advice me whether is it allowed or not?

For a believer to meet and casually chat with a non-mehram woman alone, bear her expenses to travel to his country (even if it were for her to accept or follow Islam), then sponsor and bear the financial burden of her stay in your country (even if it were for her to accept and follow Islam)…..such a series of acts and deeds would just not be consonant with one who sincerely fears Allah and the Last Day.

Respected brother, as noble and as pure as your intentions might be, it is possible that the intentions of the girl in question might not be as noble and as pure as your own, or perchance the accursed and avowed enemy of man, the Shaytaan, might inspire you or the woman upon whom you intend to bestow such innumerable favors towards the manifest transgression of the prescribed Boundaries of your Lord Most Majestic, Most Supreme!

Respected brother in Islam, as noble and meritorious as it is in the Sight of Allah Subhanah for a believer to earnestly and sincerely strive to present the Truth of Islam to all who are willing to listen to good caution…..one should also know that there are only a handful of sins in Islam which are greater in degree that the abomination of ‘zina’!

My dear and beloved brother, if indeed you wish to sincerely help the disbelieving sister come closer to Islam only for the Sake and Pleasure of Allah, or if indeed you wish for her to come to your country so that she may be better able to accept and follow Islam….piety and righteousness would dictate that you hand over the case of the sister to some believing sisters or a female relative of yours (your mother, your sister, etc)….and you continue to support or bear the expenses if you so wish from behind an absolute veil of anonymity. If indeed you wish to help the disbelieving sister only for the Sake and Pleasure of Allah Subhanah, and if indeed you fear Allah and the Last Day…this would be a better and purer way to fulfill your noble intentions of helping one get closer to their Lord Creator and His Deen of Truth.

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