#697: Ruling on Muslim Sisters Making Videos For Da`awah
QUESTION:
“”Assalamu alaikum warahmatullah. Please I want to ask, what is the Islamic ruling on sisters making dawah using video clips, and posting on YouTube and other outlets?”
ANSWER:
Wa Alaykum Salām Warahmatullāh Wabarakātuh.
Alhamdulillāh.
May Allāh rectify our affairs, amīn.
This is completely against the Ethics of Islām that a Muslim Sister should make herself available posting video clips on social media in the name making Da’awah.
Is this the way the Women Pious Predecessors made their Da’awah and taught their Ilm throughout our history?
Were this Muslim Sister to observe the Hijāb and the Niqāb and be doing this, she would still have transgressed the limits of the Sharī’ah because she has exposed herself and the Muslim Ummah to a great lot of Fitnah.
The Rasūl -salallāhu alayhi wasallam – said:
ما تركت بعدي فتنة أضر على الرجال من النساء
“I have not left behind me any Fitnah that is worse on men then women”
This Hadīth is recorded by both Imām Al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
We all know that the Wives of the Rasūl – salallāhu alayhi wasallam – were of the most Learned of the Sahābah as the Ulamā have mentioned.
Yet, it wasn’t their practice to make themselves available in the Masjid of the Rasūl – salallāhu Alayhi Wasallam – or on the Minbar to teach the Dīn to the Ummah.
Rather, what was obtainable was that the Sahābah or the Tābi’īn who needed their consultation or wanted to learn from them approached them in their houses, sought permissions from them and asked them questions behind a veil.
Why then should a Muslim sister make herself available on Social Media channels with her voice and video, or either of both, making ‘da’awah’ thereby exposing herself and the Ummah to a great lot of Fitnah.
This should be abhorred.
Women may teach the Dīn and make Da’awah to women particularly and restriction should be made in such a way that such does not extend to men.
Women may only teach matured men behind a Veil and in gatherings that completely screen the women and don’t expose them to Fitnah.
That said, the command of Amr Bi Al-Ma’arūf and Nah’y ‘an Al-Munkar is encompassing of both men and women.
Except that women are obliged to do it in a way that is free from Fitnah for herself and the Ummah.
Bārakallāhu Fīkum
Jazākumullāhu Khayran.
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