{"id":6551,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/necking\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:18:45","slug":"necking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/necking\/","title":{"rendered":"Necking"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I had a question regarding necking. Is it considered <em>haram<\/em>?  I am 19 years old and recently got into a relationship with another  Muslim. We are both university students and we both made it clear that  our ultimate goal will be marriage. We have not engaged in any sexual  acts and we both respect that we will wait till marriage as it is <em>haram<\/em> to do so before. We are both practicing but moderate Muslims. What is the <em>fatwa<\/em> when it comes to us kissing with no intentions of lust and if we know and set limits (nothing more than kissing) <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>One of the essential ingredients of <em>taqwa<\/em>  (to be guarded and conscious about things that the Almighty does not  like) is to be cautious. In the Qur&#8217;an we are advised not only to avoid  evil acts but to avoid even getting close to evil acts (Qur&#8217;an, 6:151).<\/p>\n<div>This attitude of refraining from anything that might (even with a small chance) lead to <em>haram<\/em> is the attitude that the Almighty likes to see in his servants (Qur&#8217;an, 49:13).<\/div>\n<div>My advice therefore is to refrain from any physical relationship with the person you referred to that might lead to <em>haram<\/em>.  Human emotion and passion in particular when it comes to relationship  with the opposite sex is very complicated and it often leads us to  things that we had never thought of. Satan often takes advantage of this  as he is keen to use any opportunity to deceive us (Qur&#8217;an, 7:16,  17). <\/div>\n<div>Thank God, you are a practicing Muslim and are well aware of the main purpose of your life as a Muslim. The feeling of <em>taqwa<\/em>  that refraining from such physical relationship will bring to you and  your future husband is not to be missed, and the risk of getting  involved in <em>haram<\/em> is definitely not worth of taking.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Farhad Shafti<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-02-11<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6551\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a question regarding necking. Is it considered <em>haram<\/em>?  I am 19 years old and recently got into a relationship with another  Muslim. We are both university students and we both made it clear that  our ultimate goal will be marriage. We have not engaged in any sexual  acts and we both respect that we will wait till marriage as it is <em>haram<\/em> to do so before. We are both practicing but moderate Muslims. What is the <em>fatwa<\/em> when it comes to us kissing with no intentions of lust and if we know and set limits (nothing more than kissing) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1162],"tags":[2414,1342,2415],"class_list":["post-6551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-issues","tag-necking","tag-relationship","tag-taqwa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Necking - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/necking\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Necking - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I had a question regarding necking. 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