Non-Mahram
Non-Maḥram (Arabic: غير المحارم) is someone who is not Mahram by blood, by marriage or by suckling. Observing the rules of hijab and looking are obligatory against non-mahram ones and marrying them is not prohibited; although, in some cases, a man and a woman are non-mahram while their marriage is prohibited.
Looking at, touching and covering oneself against non-mahram ones have specific rules in jurisprudence; including that looking at the body of a non-mahram woman is forbidden for non-mahram man and vice versa. Also, looking at the face of non-mahram ones with the intention of gaining pleasure and also making steady look at them are forbidden. Touching the body of non-mahram ones and shaking hand with them are also forbidden.
- According to Shia rules of jurisprudence, some non-mahram ones, marrying whom is forbidden, are as follows:
- The sister of one's wife, as long as his wife is alive and not divorced.[1]
- A man, who divorces his wife nine times, will be prohibited to marry her forever.[2]
- A woman, who is in her 'idda of divorce, enters marriage with another man.[3]
- A man and a woman who commit adultery regardless of having spouses.[4]
- The marriage of the mother, the sister or the daughter of a man who has been sodomized with the sodomizer.[5]
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References
- Banīhāshimī Khomeinī, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥasan. Tawḍīḥ al-masāʾil-i marajiʿ. Tehran: Daftar-i Intishārāt-i Islāmī-yi affiliated to Jāmiʿa-yi Mudarrisīn-i Ḥawza-yi ʿIlmīyya-yi Qom, 1383 Sh.
- Ḥillī, Jaʿfar b. al-Ḥasan al-. Sharāʾiʿ al-Islām fī masāʾil al-ḥalāl wa l-ḥarām. 2nd edition. Qom: Muʾassisa-yi Ismāʿīlīyān, 1408 AH.
- Mufīd, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-. Al-Muqniʿa. Qom: Kungira-yi Jahānī Hizāra-yi Shaykh al-Mufīd, 1413 AH.
- Najafī, Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-. Jawāhir al-kalām fī sharḥ sharāʾiʿ al-Islām. Beirut: Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 1404 AH.
- Shahīd al-Thānī, Zayn al-Dīn b. ʿAlī. Masālik al-ifhām ilā tanqīh sharāyiʿ al-Islām. Qom: Muʾassisa al-Maʿārif al-Islāmiyya, 1413 AH.