- Is this Islamic preacher's view on porn correct?by I want to learn islam ago | 2 comments
I was searching whether porn is haram or makruh and came across and islamic preacher who said:Pls tell me if he is right or wrong and pls can you justify it if possible.
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“Certainly makruhHaram is a grey area because porn did not exist in the days of Mohammad and is not, therefore, expressly forbidden or haram.
Maulana Accepting Reality needs to start accepting the reality that he is an ignoramus who shoots his mouth off without thinking.
Now, permit me to explain why it is makhruh. As you know, you are supposed to lower your gaze and not look at the awrah. In porn, you do that. The instruction for lowering the gaze was mustahabb,or recommended, therefore, doing the opposite is makhruh or frowned upon and undesirable.
Allah knows best.'
Al-salam alaykum wa-rahmat Allah.
Dear brother/sister,
Good question.
(1)
First of all, refer to the following chart:
Five types of acts in Islamic law (multilingual)
(2)
You need to realize that some things are haram by name (i.e. explicit mention), whereas some things are haram in principle.
Refer to the following for details:
When can something be called haram?: Rules for declaring things haram (Music & School)
(3)
Porn is haram in principle (i.e. it goes against the guidelines of the Qur’ān, although nowhere mentioned to be haram by name).
Refer to the following to know the details for the prohibition of porn:
Sexting (phone sex or sexual talking)
Masturbation: further related queries (2) [on the prohibition of pornography]
(4)
The expression “lowering of/from their gaze” (Qur’ān 24:30–1) does not refer to lowering the gaze physically; it refers to refraining from lustful sight.
Refer to the following:
Sexual Assault [on lowering the gaze as well]
Commentary on verse 30 of Sūrah al-Nūr (Sūrah 24) [footnote #43] in al-Bayān by Javed Ahmad Ghamidi [Urdu-only]
1. ⇒ غضّ: An Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane
Q&A: What Does Lowering The Gaze Mean? | Dr. Shabir Ally: YouTube
(5)
Majority of the scholars follow the following principle:
الأمر للوجوب إلا أن تصرفه قرينة
which means:
[every] command (
amr) entails obligation (wujūb) unless the context (qarīnah) changes it (i.e. unless there is evidence to the contrary).So every command of Allah and/or of His Messenger is by default obligatory.
This rule is based on several verses of the Qur’ān (e.g. 24:63; 33:36; 7:12–13), and is, therefore, correct.
This is explained here in more detail:
بحث في القاعدة الأصولية: الأمر للوجوب إلا أن تصرفه قرينة: IslamWeb.net [Arabic-only]
دلالة الأمر عند الأصوليين: Alukah [Arabic-only]
Hence, all the commandments, including “lowering of/from the gaze”, are obligatory (wājib/farḍ) and not merely recommended (mandūb/mustaḥabb).
CONCLUSION
Keeping all the above points in mind, we thus conclude that porn is haram and not merely discouraged (makrūh).
Refer to the links mentioned in (3) above to know how/why porn is haram in principle.
Hope this clears your doubts.
Wal-salam alaykum wa-rahmat Allah.
It is totally HARAM.
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- keeping of a man's hair as part of sunnahby Yussuf ibn abdulraheem ago | 2 comments
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I heard from a friend that the prophet (SAW) used to keep his hair till it reaches his neck and then he cuts it completely then leaves it to grow again and still cuts it when it reaches his neckI want to be sure if it’s allowed in Islam for a male to keep his hair and if it is sunnah
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Al-salam alaykum wa-rahmat Allah.
Dear brother,
First of all, you must know that the mutawātir Sunnah is the onlytrue and agreed-upon sunnah of the Prophet(s) ﷺ.
The mutawātir Sunnah is that sunnah of the Prophet(s) ﷺ that has reached us by the perpetual practice (tawātur) and adherence of the whole ummah.
And when something is mutawātir then it yields certainty, just like the Qur’ān.
And this mutawātir Sunnah is independent of and different from the Ḥadīths.
The mutawātir Sunnah is agreed upon by the Muslim laity (common people) and the intelligentsia (scholars) alike, and no one has the right to reject it.
Some examples of the mutawātir practices are the five daily prayers (ṣalāh), fasting, zakāh, ḥajj, and recitation of the Qur’ān.
You can get a list of the mutawātir sunnahs of the Prophet(s) ﷺ here:
The Mutawatir Sunnah (ﺍﻟﺴﻨﺔ ﺍﻟﻤﺘﻮﺍﺗﺮﺓ ﺃﻭ ﺍﻟﺴﻨﺔ ﺍﻟﻌﻤﻠﻴﺔ)
And there are only two sources of Islam:
the Qur’ān, and
the mutawātir Sunnah.
All that is Islam is constituted by these two sources. Nothing besides these two is Islam or can be regarded as its part.
The Ḥadīths, on the other hand, do not constitute a part of Islam, rather they are just historical collection (historical record).
This is because they were written centuries later after the Prophet’s ﷺ death, hence, they do not yield certainty, not even those that are labelled ṣaḥīḥ!
And this truth has been admitted by the Ḥadīth scholars themselves. Read the following for statements of those scholars:
Authenticity of the Qur’ān
The Gharānīq Incident or the ‘Satanic Verses’
How can we be sure that a ḥadīth is the actual uttering of the Prophet? (Dr Jonathan Brown)
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Now coming to your question whether keeping hair as long as up to the neck by men is a sunnah or not, then you can check it in the aforementioned list of the mutawātir sunnahs and you don’t find it. Hence, it’s not a sunnah.
Even if supposedly the Prophet ﷺ did something like that then it could be possible that he did it because of his personal likes and dislikes or the prevailing custom (al-ՙādah al-jāriyah), not necessarily as a religious act, just as is the case with keeping a beard.
As for if it’s permissible for a male to keep his hair that long, it is permissible but you should not keep your hair that long so as to resemble women, because when Allah has made you a man then you must accept what He has made you.
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A very good example of a very important thing known to us because of the mutawātir sunnah but not mentioned in any of the ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīths is the number of obligatory (farḍ) units (rakaՙāt) in the five daily prayers (ṣalawāt).
We all know that the number of farḍrakaՙāt in the ṣalāh are two (fajr), four (ẓuhr), four (ՙaṣr), three (maghrib), and four (ՙishā’), and this is what the ummah has been upon since the time of the Prophet ﷺ without any difference of opinion (ikhtilāf).
But even a thing as important and as simple as this is not mentioned explicitly in any of the so-called ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīths attributed to the Prophet ﷺ.
Even the famous Salafi/Wahhabi/Ahl-e-Hadith fatwa website IslamWeb.net is unable to quote any ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth to prove the number of farḍrakaՙāt in the five daily prayers and agrees that it is known by tawātur:
الدليل على عدد ركعات الصلوات الخمس [Arabic]
Number of Rakats for each prayer: IslamWeb.net
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You can refer to the following for more on the mutawātir Sunnah:
Sunnah vs. Hadith (Follow Up 3: Definition of Established Sunnah)
Sunnah Verses Hadith (Follow Up 4: Beard)
Sunnah vs Hadith (Adis Duderija)
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi on Hadith
Complete Salah based on only Sahih hadith is IMPOSSIBLE
Islam and Sects Friday Sermon by Allama Syed Abdullah Tariq 16 October 2015 [Urdu]
How to identify mutawatir Sunnah (Inkar-e-Hadith aur Javed Ahmad Ghamidi) [Urdu]
Hadith vs Sunnat and the status of akhbar al-ahad (Inkar-e-Hadith aur Javed Ahmad Ghamidi) [Urdu]
Inkar-e-Hadith aur Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (Part 1-2) [Urdu]
Inkar-e-Hadith aur Javed Ahmad Ghamidi (Part 2-2) [Urdu]
what is the right way for salaat, We pray as per what firqa? javed ahmed ghamidi [Urdu]
Only Quran is enough, Hadees?, javed ahmed ghamidi, javed ahmad ghamidi [Urdu]
Sahee Hadith is not Included in Deen By : Javed Ahmad Ghamidi [Urdu]
Difference Between Sunnah and Hadith (Javed Ahmad Ghamidi) [Urdu]
A Muslim Scholar Exposes The False Hadith Culture That Is Corrupting Islam [Arabic + English subtitles]
Quranic Islam - Interview with Shaykh Hassan Farhan al-Maliki [Arabic + English subtitles]
حسن فرحان المالكي في برنامح اتجاهات - القرآنيون [Arabic]
Mutawatir Sunnah, hadiths’ conflict with Qur’an, limiting or extending Qur’anic verses with hadiths (Hanafis) [Arabic]
Hope this clears your doubts.
Wal-salam alaykum wa-rahmat Allah.
Why Hadiths ?? / Confused Muslim