 As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to Ahqam SOS, the show that discusses Islamic duties and practices by His Eminence the Grand Ayatollah Sayed Sadik Sharazi. I'm your host, Mohsin Shah and joining me is Sheikh Ali Ma'as. As-salamu alaikum Sheikhna. As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi. Sheikhna, as you know, this season we've looked at other Marajas as well and their opinions on certain topics and subjects. In regards to Muharram, which we're going through right now, a lot of people would say that you shouldn't open, you shouldn't go to work on Ashwara, on the 9th, on the 10th of Muharram, you shouldn't go to work, you shouldn't open your shop for business. According to Ayatollah Sistani, how for the what is his opinion on whether you know we should have shops open and not on such days? With regard to opening shops and usual daily business on the Ashwara specifically, Ayatollah Sistani would mention that if this act became some kind of a sign of negligence and neglecting the what happened on Ahl al-Bayt, as-salamu alaikum, this sad day, in other words you just you know come back to work as usual as every day without you know respecting these days, this event, this sad event, in this case the one should leave this act and avoid working on these two days specifically on the 10th of Muharram and 9th of Muharram as well. However, Ayatollah Shirazi would state that it is mustahab for the individual to make himself busy in these two days with the azah, with attending the majalis, reviving the matter of Ahl al-Bayt by attending these programs and it is makruh and disliked for the one to work on the day of Ashwara. Working is makruh, it is disliked to be worked. And he mentions, Samahatuhu that عن ألمام أرض علي السلام قال من ترك السعح في حوائجه يوم عاشورة قضى الله له حوائج الدنيا والآخر, the one who leaves his daily routine in terms of you know shopping, buying, let's say visiting friends you know sitting down. In general, whatever is needed, work, shopping and so forth, Allah would reward him by fulfilling the حوائج الدنيا and آخر for this individual. So it is recommended that the one should not go to work or even if school, college or university to take a day off prior to the Ashwara at least one or two weeks in form of the management that you know I can't attend due to this reason right to let it to school, college and so forth. So we try to commemorate this event and this occasion at in the best form in order to commemorate and stand with the عزاء of أهلبيت عليم السلام and to try to propagate and spread this مصيبة amongst other people as well so when I take a day off for example the next day I go to work they would ask why did you take a day off for example and you would explain the situation that we had عزاء, we had a great Imam who sacrificed for the humanity for the cause of Allah SWT on this day and gradually they might be guided to Islam through Imam Hussain's Salamu Alaykum. Shaikhna let's move on to you know the conversation and and the laws attaining to looking now does a Muslim lady, Muslim sister, does she have to cover her body in front of a boy who's not so this boy hasn't reached the age of puberty that she have to do full hijab in front of that person that child according to Sayed Sistani. I told her Sistani would mention it in his masalah that for a woman as a obligatory precaution, to cover her hair and body from a young boy who can extinguish between the good and the bad, the good and the evil, the one who can understand these things let's say in the age of six, seven, eight it depends on that individual but he would put a condition that if that boy reaches the stage in which if he looks at that woman the arousal of the shahwa of the lust would be applied in this case if that arousal of the shahwa happens then it becomes haram as the obligatory precaution. I told her she would mention that as obligatory precaution that she should cover herself of course the hair and the body from an unbiased boy if he can distinguish between the right and the wrong the good and the bad without the arousal of the lust. So that's the difference between him and her Sistani. So this means that it could be even in the age of six or five even if that boy can actually distinguish between the right and the wrong and we have MashaAllah some clever boys who understand everything in such young age so in this case the woman should cover herself the body let's say long sleeves for example to wear insulafsha clothes sleeves to cover the hair for example and from this young child. Shafna is it okay to look at you know the the private parts what if we're in like you know if it's in water if we're in the swimming pool or we're in you know in the ocean in the sea is it okay then or is it fully not permissible at all times? It is prohibited and not allowed to look at each one's private part you know let's say male to male and of course male to female that is worse of course to look at each other's private parts however the exception is with regard to the husband and wife that they can entirely and fully look at each other's body and if the mother let's say changing a six month old baby nappies and so forth which can she look and there's no issue I mean she can even wash the baby with herself in the bathroom because the baby in this age he cannot recognize or understand his environment in this age other than these two exceptions it seems to be that it is not allowed for the one to look at others I mean in terms of the doctors that's another issue exception that the doctor is a male doctor let's say and there are some kind of treatments for genitals let's say issues diseases now that they have to look for example these are exceptions otherwise for the one to look no you're in a swimming pool changing room for example you're not allowed to look at each other's private parts so if you put private parts on one side what about normal body parts you know the arms legs feet things like that is that acceptable the men can look at men's body except the private parts but it should be without lust without temptation without any shahua and arousal of the last but for the men to look at the woman no they're not allowed to look at the body of the or the head of the woman at all I don't know no of course and even the woman cannot look at the body of the man as well so she has to also lower her gaze as the Quran says to lower her gaze and to her to lower the male gaze as well from the looking at the woman sheikh what about if we turn tables around and we've got a grown man and let's say you know he's got a daughter or a niece and she hasn't started her men's cycle is he allowed to look at her does she have to cover in front of him you know and in terms of you know body parts and stuff hands arms legs and things like that does he is he okay to look at that or should he not and should she be you know observing the hijab if that girl who has reached the age of puberty or the the caliph or bulu if she is a relative let's say she's daughter let's say sister or there's some kind of blood relation with this individual then he can look but of course again they shouldn't look with the intention of lust now that's not allowed but other than that if the girl is non-mahram let's say the neighbors girl for example somebody else's friends girl for example who has reached the the age of buluq then her hukum is like the hukum of her mother mother and other sisters who are baliq or adults because the sharia hukum becomes wajib on this girl who has reached this age of taqlif as if it's wajib on her mother and any other female adults Ahsan thank you very much sheikh now thank you to all our viewers for joining us if you have a question you'd like to send in you can send it on ahkam sos at imamosane3.tv and inshallah the sheikh will be able to address that inshallah we'll see you on the next episode of ahkam sos