A Dayyooth
Question
Will the following acts classify one as being a Dayyooth?
1. A husband who doesn’t mind that his wife to go out wearing tight-fitting and/or revealing clothes (even though she is fully covered, her body shape is seen e.g. skinny jeans, or wears tops with see-through sleeves)
1.1. What are the punishments or warnings, if any, regarding such a woman?
2. A husband who doesn’t mind that his wife talks to her brothers-in-law, cousin’s baaligh sons and her baaligh male cousins on a social level i.e. not out of necessity. (be it face-to-face or on social media)
3. A husband who does not mind that the above-mentioned “family” members visit at his home, even at times when he is not there (for a genuine, work-related need and not to socialise with his family i.e. wife and children).
Answer
1. He will be classified as a Dayyooth and the Ahadith tells us such women will not enter Jannah and will be denied its fragrance as well; despite the fact that the fragrance of Jannah can sensed from an incredibly far distance.
2. Yes
3. Yes
References (Arabic / Urdu sources)
(يجب) وظاهر الآية أنه فرض نهر ج ٦ ٥ الديوث وهو الذي لا غيرة له على أهله
( حاشية السندي علي سنن النسائي)
صِنفان من أهل النار لم أرهما: قوم معهم سياط كأذناب البقر يضربون بها الناس، ونساء كاسيات عاريات مميلات مائلات، رءوسهن كأسنمة البخت المائلة لا يدخلن الجنة، ولا يجدن ريحها، وإن ريحها ليوجد من مسيرة كذا وكذا”
((رواه مسلم))
وقال الإمام أبو النصر إسماعيل بن حماد الجوهري في كتابه الصحاح في اللغة: الديوث القنزع، وهو الذي لا غيرة له،
( تفسير ابن كثير)
- Approved by
- Mufti Muhammed Saeed Motara Saheb D.B.
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