To mastrubate thinking his OWN wife?
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If someone mastrubate thinking his own wife where he has to stay away from wife
for long time due to job issue & his family resposisbilties. Is that s SIN
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to mastrubate thinking his OWN wife?
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Answer:
Masturbation
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.
If one is away from one’s wife
for a long period and wishes to preserve his chastity, masturbation would
neither be a legal or a permanent solution; but rather a permanent solution to
the issue would be:
- The man changes his job and works in a place
where he and his wife can live together.
- Arrange for the wife to come and live where he
works
The scholars and jurists in
Islam are absolutely unanimous in their opinion that the act of masturbation
would be unlawful at all times, even if one claims that he is only thinking
about his wife.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 23 Surah Muminoon verses 1-11:
1 The Believers must (eventually) win
through
2 Those who humble themselves in their
prayers;
3 Who avoid vain talk;
4 Who are active in deeds of charity;
5 Who scrupulously guard their modesty
(private parts),
6 Except with those joined to them in the
marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess; for (in their case) they are free from blame.
7 But those whose desires exceed those
limits, are transgressors!
8 Those who faithfully observe their trust
and their covenants;
9 And who (strictly) guard their prayers
10 Those will be the heirs
11 Who will inherit
The scholars of all schools of
thought are unanimous in their opinion that the evil act of ‘masturbation’
would, without an iota of a doubt, fall under the category of ‘those whose desires exceed the limits’.
Sunan of Abu-Dawood
Hadith 4886 Narrated by Anas ibn Malik
That he heard the
Messenger of Allah (saws) say: ‘The eye commits ‘zina’, and the palm of the
hand, the foot, the body, the tongue and private part of the body confirm it or
deny it.’
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Hadith 8.260 Narrated by Ibn Abbas
I have not seen a
thing resembling 'lamam' (minor sins) than what Abu Huraira narrated from the
Prophet (saws) who said "Allah has written for the children of Adam their
share of adultery which he commits inevitably. The adultery of the eyes is the
sight (to gaze at a forbidden thing), the adultery of the tongue is the talk,
and the inner self wishes and desires and the private parts testify all this or
deny it."
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 36 Surah Ya-Seen verse 65:
65 That Day shall We set a seal on their mouths. But their hands will speak to Us and their
feet bear witness to all that they did.
Allah Says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 41 Surah Ha-Meem verses 19-23:
19 On the Day that the enemies of Allah will be gathered together to
the Fire they will be marched in ranks.
20 At length when they reach the (Fire) their hearing, their sight, and
their skins will bear witness against them as to (all) their deeds.
21 They will say to their skins: "Why bear ye witness against
us?" They (their skins) will say:
"Allah hath given us speech, (He) Who giveth speech to everything: He
created you for the first time and unto Him were ye to return.
22 "Ye did not seek to hide yourselves lest your hearing, your
sight, and your skins should bear witness against you! But ye did think that
Allah knew not many of the things that ye used to do!
23 "But this thought of yours which ye did entertain concerning
your Lord hath brought you to destruction, and (now) have ye become of those
utterly lost!"
Although in legal terminology
‘zina’ would constitute the actual penetration of the male organ into the
female organ, the Messenger of Allah (saws) warned the believers regarding the
minor ‘zina’ of the eyes, hands, legs, etc. Not only is the evil act of ‘zina’
prescribed as absolutely forbidden in Islam, every path or every way that leads
one to this evil path is also declared as forbidden! Such is the gravity of this abomination of
‘zina’, that Allah Subhanah commands the believers in the Quran: ‘Do not even go near ‘zina’ (Quran 17:32)!!!
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
Wister