Is Watching Porn Haram 2?
@faisalharoon @Aj-khan @UmerQureshi Respected brothers I think this point needs to be clarified which I too have difficulty in explaining to others and also the context about H Muhammad Saw and Quran e Pak itself ordering men and women to lower one’s gazes.The confusion gets created when you say it as a Sadd e Zariya which means one will not be held accountable if one stay clear from sexual interactions with another but does this. Thanks
Thankyou. As Umer Qureshi has explained ” The word فَوَاحِشَ comprehensively includes exposing the private parts before others, spreading details of sexual nature or fornication. Therefore, any action or any talk which involves such acts/discussion is to be considered as prohibited.” So wouldn’t porn fall under the Ayah قُلْ إِنَّمَا حَرَّمَ رَبِّىَ ٱلْفَوَٰحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ وَٱلْإِثْمَ وَٱلْبَغْىَ بِغَيْرِ ٱلْحَقِّ وَأَن تُشْرِكُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ مَا لَمْ يُنَزِّلْ بِهِۦ سُلْطَـٰنًۭا وَأَن تَقُولُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ٣٣ Say, “My Lord has only forbidden open and secret indecencies, sinfulness, unjust aggression, associating ˹others˺ with Allah ˹in worship˺—a practice He has never authorized—and attributing to Allah what you do not know.” So wouldn’t it fall under the Ayah and becomes mutlaqan haram? Because: يَـٰبَنِىٓ ءَادَمَ لَا يَفْتِنَنَّكُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ كَمَآ أَخْرَجَ أَبَوَيْكُم مِّنَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ يَنزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيُرِيَهُمَا سَوْءَٰتِهِمَآ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ يَرَىٰكُمْ هُوَ وَقَبِيلُهُۥ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا تَرَوْنَهُمْ ۗ إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا ٱلشَّيَـٰطِينَ أَوْلِيَآءَ لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ ٢٧ O children of Adam! Do not let Satan deceive you as he tempted your parents out of Paradise and caused their cover to be removed in order to expose their nakedness. Surely he and his soldiers watch you from where you cannot see them. We have made the devils allies of those who disbelieve. Because in the context also God talked about “exposing nakedness” which happens in porn (if i am doing the right interpretation). So the question is, wouldn’t it become mutlaqan haram under these Ayaat?
Is it the same thing if it is not real awrah of a man or woman. Is it still considered as porn.