Proper Conduct and Manners When Visiting Others
Understanding the importance of proper conduct and manners when visiting others is essential for maintaining strong relationships and avoiding potential misunderstandings or discomfort. Islam provides guidance on seeking permission before entering, lowering one's gaze to respect modesty, and forbidding certain displays of adornments. These practices aim to foster respect, consideration, and harmonious interactions among people during visits.
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Social Media: Good Conduct and Manners
Starter Question: Man is by nature a Social Entity. Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
Man is a Social Entity Humans love to establish relations and engage in transactions with others.
Man is a Social Entity A visit represents a mean by which man realizes the need to establish relations with others.
Man is a Social Entity Although visiting others effectively contribute to strengthening the ties of cooperation, they sometimes thrust a burden on the host or cause embarrassment.
Man is a Social Entity This may lead to severing ties with people. In order for visits to achieve their noble goals, Islam has legislated manners to govern the practice of visiting.
Proper Conduct When Visiting Others: 1. Asking Permission when entering the house of others. 2. Lowering one s gaze and guarding one s modesty 3. Forbidding women to display their adornments to people other than their unmarriageable kin (maharim) 7
O ye who believe! Enter not houses other than your own, until ye have asked permission and saluted those in them: that is best for you, in order that ye may heed (what is seemly). -Surat An-Nur: Verse 27 8
Proper Conduct When Visiting Others: Lowering One s Gaze And Lowering One s Gaze And Guarding One s Modesty Guarding One s Modesty Lowering one s gaze is a means of guarding one s modesty ; it is a means of purifying the self from the whisperings of the devil and attaining greater purity for believes in this worldly life and in the hereafter. Forbidding Women To Display Forbidding Women To Display Their Adornments To No One Their Adornments To No One Other Than Their Kin Other Than Their Kin Allah has forbidden women to display their adornments to people other than their kin (relatives). He excluded the kind of adornment which was diffucult to coneal. In order to perform some tasks women has to expose their hands or unveil their faces to deal and mingle with people. The adornments for women is divided into two categories. Asking Permission Before Asking Permission Before Entering One s House Entering One s House The wisdom of sharia associated with houses as sanctuary; it is prohibited to enter houses unless owners of the house grant the visitor permission in order to preserve privacy. There are 2 states in entering one s house. 9
Two states of Asking Permission Before Entering One s House First: First: Second: Second: The owners of the house are present and there are 2 states: 1. The owners permit entry and hence the guest salutes them and enters. 2. They do not permit the guest to enter and the guest has to go back. No one is in the house and hence it is not permissible to enter it while its occupants are not present unless a prior permission is granted. 10
Two Categories of adornment for women Hidden Adornment Hidden Adornment Displayable Adornment Displayable Adornment These include bracelets, necklaces and earrings. It is not permissible to display hidden adornment except to the husband and relatives mentioned in the holy verses. These include normal clothing that must be ordinarily shown to others such as rings, kohl and dye. This is any kind of adornment that is impossible to conceal as adornment of the face and the hands. 11
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Thanks! Any questions? Any questions? This presentation was presented by: Zayed Mir 12B The Atlantis 13