❀ List of Prohibited Acts During Iʿtikāf ❀
🖋 Written by: Shaykh Mubashshir Ahmad Rabbānī ḥafiẓahullāh
Question:
Kindly inform us about the actions from which one must refrain during Iʿtikāf.
Prohibited Acts During Iʿtikāf:
❶ Engaging in marital relations (sexual intercourse)
“And do not approach your wives while you are in Iʿtikāf in the mosques.”
[Al-Baqarah: 187]
[Ibn Abī Shaybah 3/29, ʿAbd ar-Razzāq 4/363]
❷ Leaving the mosque to visit the sick
➤ Even for virtuous reasons like visiting the ill, it is not allowed during Iʿtikāf.
❸ Participating in funeral processions
➤ Attending a janāzah (funeral) during Iʿtikāf is prohibited.
❹ Exiting the place of Iʿtikāf without a genuine need
➤ One may leave only for essential needs such as using the restroom or performing obligatory ghusl.
[Abū Dāwūd, Kitāb aṣ-Ṣiyām: Bāb al-Muʿtakif Yaʿūd al-Marīḍ ḥadīth 2473, al-Bayhaqī 4/317]
