Pardah with the Peer

The condition in cities nowadays is that I saw a love poem of a woman about her Peer (Shaikh) published. Allah alone knows what kind of ‘shaikh’ was this who tolerated this!!! Truly, by discarding the Shariat modesty and self-honour both depart.

I saw in some places that women do not make pardah from their Shaikhs. They come in front of them.

Even more outrageous is that sometimes they come to the Shaikh when he is alone. There is no mahram there even. What heart-rending elimination of Haya is this not!?

Ladies! Just take lessons on Deen from the shaikh. Besides this, do not serve him in any way, and do not come in front of him.

In fact, whatever you wish to write to him, tell your husband to write. If circumstances constrain you to write yourself then incumbently show the letter to your husband or brother or son. And tell the menfolk to write their address. In this way there won’t be any excesses, nor will this be a difficulty on the males.

And if you see your husband or other male mahram balking at you writing, then don’t at all write yourself. Let them ask.

But no one observes these things nowadays leading to a woman writing poetry of romance about her shaikh in which she even portrays the physical features of her shaikh and her anguish of being separated from him.

And this was published in a journal. This journal would come to me. When I saw this,  I became extremely angry and I discontinued my subscription of the journal.

(Huqooqul Bait)