❀ Ruling on Reading Deviant Magazines and Journals ❀
This content is derived from the book “500 Questions and Answers for Women,” based on the fatwas of the Scholars of the Ḥaramayn, translated by Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbdullāh Salīm.
What is the ruling regarding women who read magazines and journals that promote deviant ideologies?
It is ḥarām for every accountable (mukallaf) man and woman to read books filled with innovation and misguidance, as well as magazines and journals that are champions of falsehood and nonsense.
All such newspapers and periodicals that serve as propagators of lies and promote immoral ideologies are impermissible to read.
However, if a person engages with such material in order to refute the deviations, and to guide people toward the path of steadfastness and truth, then they may read such content—but only for the purpose of exposing its falsehood and warning others against it.
(Shaykh Ibn Bāz رحمه الله)
This content is derived from the book “500 Questions and Answers for Women,” based on the fatwas of the Scholars of the Ḥaramayn, translated by Ḥāfiẓ ʿAbdullāh Salīm.
❖ Question:
What is the ruling regarding women who read magazines and journals that promote deviant ideologies?
❖ Answer:
It is ḥarām for every accountable (mukallaf) man and woman to read books filled with innovation and misguidance, as well as magazines and journals that are champions of falsehood and nonsense.
All such newspapers and periodicals that serve as propagators of lies and promote immoral ideologies are impermissible to read.
However, if a person engages with such material in order to refute the deviations, and to guide people toward the path of steadfastness and truth, then they may read such content—but only for the purpose of exposing its falsehood and warning others against it.
(Shaykh Ibn Bāz رحمه الله)
