Abstention from Shaking Hands with Women - Woman [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

prevention on sense of sighting is ordered, as God didn't say: Do not look "la tanzura", but He gave His orders to do something positive, i.e. lowering the eyes.

AbuSa'id AlKhudri, reporting a hadeeth in this context from the Prophet"S", said: "The Messenger of Allah"S" said: Abstain from sitting on the "sidewalk of" roads. People said to him: We have no other alternative but to sit and talk to each other. The Prophet said: Now if it be so, you should fulfil the rights of roads. They questioned: What are rights of roads? He replied: lowering the eyes, abstaining from harming the others, responding to greeting, and enjoining to good and forbidding from evil." ¹⁴⁵

Examples of impudence can be found in some of the traditions, like the following:

Ibn Abbas is reported to have said: The Prophet made AlFadl Ibn Abbas ride the mount behind him on Id AlAzha "Greater Bairam". AlFadl was of good and wellcut figure. Once upon a time, the Prophet made a halt for giving answers to people's questions regarding religious ambiguities. A goodlooking woman from Khatham Tribe came near the Prophet to inquire him about some matters. When AlFadl was dazzled with her beauty and kept on gazing her with open eyes. Thereat the Prophet put his hand before his "AlFadl's" face and turned it to the other side.

In this hadeeth a good example and true application of principle of lowering the gaze can be clearly seen.

Abstention from Shaking Hands with Women

Another sample of manners of partnership being abstention from shaking hands with women. In the same

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145. Saheeh Muslim, vol. VII, p. 3.