{"id":3235,"date":"2011-09-03T11:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T11:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/wp\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2011-09-03T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T11:08:54","slug":"shaking-hands-with-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/shaking-hands-with-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaking hands with women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shaking hands with women<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. <\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Answer<\/h1>\n<p>It is not permissible for a Muslim to shake the hands of a strange woman.\u00a0 Saaiduna Maqil Ibn Yassar Radiallahu Anhu narrates that the Prophet of Allah Sallallahu Alahi Wasalam said \u201cIt is better for a iron rod to be driven into the head of a man, than for him to touch a woman who is not permissible for him.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 (Imam Tabraani (RA) in his Mujam al-Kabir p.211 v.20)<\/p>\n<p>With regards to your question it is advisable that you refrain from shaking the hands of a woman even though it may be for an interview.\u00a0 Explain to the woman nicely that your religion does not allow you to touch a woman who is not lawful for you.<\/p>\n<p>Only Allah Knows Best<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Tosir Miah<\/p>\n<p>Darul Ifta Birmingham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaking hands with women In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful. Answer It is not permissible for a Muslim to shake&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235"}],"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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daruliftabirmingham.co.uk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}