{"id":24370,"date":"2022-03-23T22:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/?p=24370"},"modified":"2022-03-23T22:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:05:27","slug":"is-watching-pornography-a-major-sin-or-a-minor-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/is-watching-pornography-a-major-sin-or-a-minor-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Watching Pornography a Major Sin or a Minor Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Fatwa ID: 05954<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Is watching pornography a major sin or a minor sin?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><u>Answer:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Although pornography itself is not a major sin, what it leads to i.e. fornication\/adultery is a major sin.<a href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\"><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Allah Ta\u2019ala says in The Quran: And do not approach unlawful sexual intercourse. Indeed, it is ever an immorality and is evil in a way.<a href=\"#sdfootnote2sym\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Under the commentary of this verse, Imam Qurtubi highlights \u201cDo not approach fornication, is more general than saying: Do not commit adultery; Its meaning does not approach adultery\u201d<a href=\"#sdfootnote3sym\"><sup>3<\/sup><\/a> Do not do those things that lead to adultery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Abu Huraira reported Allah&#8217;s Messenger (\ufdfa) as saying. Allah fixed the very portion of adultery that a man will indulge in. There would be no escape from it. The adultery of the eye is the lustful look and the adultery of the ears is listening to voluptuous (song or talk) and the adultery of the tongue is licentious speech and the adultery of the hand is the lustful grip (embrace) and the adultery of the feet is to walk (to the place) where he intends to commit adultery and the heart yearns and desires which he may or may not put into effect.<a href=\"#sdfootnote4sym\"><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Only Allah knows best<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Written by Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#sdfootnote1anc\">1<\/a> al-Kaba&#8217;ir, Page 103 Saeed International 2007<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#sdfootnote2anc\">2<\/a> Surah Al-Isra 17 Verse 32<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#sdfootnote3anc\">3<\/a> \u0642\u0648\u0644\u0647 \u062a\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0649 : \u0648\u0644\u0627 \u062a\u0642\u0631\u0628\u0648\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0646\u0627 \u0625\u0646\u0647 \u0643\u0627\u0646 \u0641\u0627\u062d\u0634\u0629 \u0648\u0633\u0627\u0621 \u0633\u0628\u064a\u0644\u0627 \u0641\u064a\u0647 \u0645\u0633\u0623\u0644\u0629 \u0648\u0627\u062d\u062f\u0629 : \u0642\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0644\u0645\u0627\u0621 : \u0642\u0648\u0644\u0647 &#8211; \u062a\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0649 &#8211; \u0648\u0644\u0627 \u062a\u0642\u0631\u0628\u0648\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0646\u0627 \u0623\u0628\u0644\u063a \u0645\u0646 \u0623\u0646 \u064a\u0642\u0648\u0644 : \u0648\u0644\u0627 \u062a\u0632\u0646\u0648\u0627 ; \u0641\u0625\u0646 \u0645\u0639\u0646\u0627\u0647 \u0644\u0627 \u062a\u062f\u0646\u0648\u0627 \u0645\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u0632\u0646<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"#sdfootnote4anc\">4<\/a> Sahih Muslim 2658a<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatwa ID: 05954 &nbsp; Answered by: Shaykh Ahmed Bin Mohamed Umarji &nbsp; Question: &nbsp; Is watching pornography a major sin or a minor sin? &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24763,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24370\/revisions\/24763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}