{"id":10786,"date":"2019-01-07T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/?p=10786"},"modified":"2019-01-07T18:49:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T18:49:10","slug":"10786-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/10786-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts regarding Hurmat Musaharah after watching pornographic film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 02689<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Answered by:&nbsp;Maulana Tahsin Alam<\/span> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong> <strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Assalamualaikum<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">&nbsp;<br \/>\n\tI used to practice on sunnah, I was my&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">ustaazs<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> favourite in school and madressah. Was a top 90% student. I am a Hafiz of <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">quran<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> grow the sunnah beard. However, my online sin was watching porn and because I never masturbated to it I need worse porn to watch so it progressed watching incest porn(mother and son). <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I would watch like in the holidays then I would stop for months then next holiday, then I&rsquo;ll stop. However, I never ever used to have bad thoughts regarding my mother and I can only remember 3 incidents when <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> had bad thoughts regarding my mother. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Once I wasn&#39;t <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">baligh<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">, once I walked away and the other was because <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> think something my friends told me but there&rsquo;s no guarantee that I caused <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hurmat<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">. After <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> found out about <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hurmat<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">musaharai<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> never ever watched incest again. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">However<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> I think about it every single <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">day,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> when I&#39;m near my mother I get terrible thoughts. I run to the bathroom about 20 times a day to check if I have an erection.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">After about 8 months when I asked a mufti to clear up and confirm I never caused <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hurmat<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> I started imagining incidents that never happened before(I developed <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">an <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">ocd<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> due to my extreme fear of causing <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hurmat<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">). <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I&#39;ll ask my mother and she&#39;ll say that never happened. Some nights I can&#39;t sleep, some nights <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> have nightmares, some days <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> feel like committing suicide because the &#39;fake memories feel so so real&#39;. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">So <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">i<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> stopped watching porn completely for a year but I would watch movies to clear my mind but still <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">to<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> ill still get bad thoughts and imaginations. I was a 90 student always top of my class and now I&#39;m barely passing. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Im<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> stressed and depressed and sometimes feel suicidal but I know its a huge sin. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I try to follow the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">sunnah<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> as much as possible but I can&#39;t do any <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">ibadah<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> because <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">im<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> always scared that Allah is upset with me. I&#39;m just so so scared that I caused <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hurmat<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">A very senior mufti told me that I must never worry about it again and I must write in my pocket that he told me there&rsquo;s nothing to worry. I used to love the deen<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">,was<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> never ever depressed before this and was so happy. Now wallah I just wish to kill myself. I honestly hate the <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hanafi<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">mazhab<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> now for what I&#39;m going through. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I cry to Allah. I don&#39;t understand how harsh it is. I used to be a good boy, everyone thought I was pious, I never even found my mother attractive.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I would ask muftis advice but they will give me the same <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">shaytaan<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> is troubling you because they don&rsquo;t understand mental health and psychiatrists can&rsquo;t help me since they have no knowledge of fiqh.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I was relatively okay this last month ever since I met the mufti, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">however <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">,<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">I<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">1) If one<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tread something that&#39;s really worrying me. Obviously I can never break up my parent&rsquo;s marriage and obviously, I have never ever had sex with my mother. I would really like to know:<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"> causes of&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hurmat<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> with his mother by touching or Kissing, does he become an illegitimate child as well as his siblings automatically or does this only take place after one&#39;s father divorces his mother(since the <\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">nikaah<\/span><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> is still intact) or do the children become illegitimate only if sex takes place.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong>\u0628\u0650\u0633\u0652\u0645\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0652\u0645\u0646\u0650 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u062d\u0650\u064a\u0652\u0645<\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><strong><u>.<\/u><\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">We ask Allah <em>SWT<\/em> to make easy the troubling times you are facing. There is no harm in seeking professional support\/counselling for mental health issues, preferably the practitioner should be a Muslim, but if not; you should explain the fundamentals principles of Islam and take advice accordingly. <\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">In these times of <em>fitna<\/em> and <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">fasad<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">, it is normal for one to be troubled and experience these sorts of difficulties, so you do not have to feel depressed about these things that you are facing. Your main focus should be curing this addiction and seeking forgiveness from Allah <em>SWT <\/em>constantly. Nabi <em>SAW&nbsp;<\/em>is reported <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">to have<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> said, &ldquo;The one who has [sincerely] sought forgiveness is not considered to be a persistent sinner (of that specific sin), even though he may repeat it 70 times in a day.&rdquo;<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">This <em>hadith<\/em> is in reference to the <em>ayah <\/em>&ldquo;And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins &#8211; and who can forgive sins except Allah? &#8211; And [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know.&rdquo;<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\" title=\"\">[2]<\/a><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">What is the reward <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">of<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> such people? Who tirelessly exerted themselves in trying to uphold the commandants of Allah <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">ta&rsquo;ala<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><em> <\/em>while no one watches them; Almighty Allah says in the next verse, &ldquo;Those &#8211; their reward is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which rivers flow [in Paradise], wherein they will abide eternally<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">; and<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> excellent is the reward of the [righteous] workers.&rdquo;<a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\" title=\"\">[3]<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Regardin<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"> your question, having unlawful thoughts about your mother will not establish <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">hurmat<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">And Allah SWT alone knows best.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Written by Maulana Tahsin Alam<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Checked and approved Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&nbsp;\n\t<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a>Abu Dawud (1514)<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn2\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\" title=\"\">[2]<\/a>Qur&rsquo;an03:135.<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn3\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><a href=\"#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\" title=\"\">[3]<\/a>Qur&rsquo;an03:136.<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 02689 Answered by:&nbsp;Maulana Tahsin Alam Question: Assalamualaikum &nbsp; I used to practice on sunnah, I was my&nbsp;ustaazs favourite in school and madressah. 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