Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi's response to I understand that friendship with non-Mahram is not permissible. However, would it be okay in the case that both parties, female and male, have no ill intention and interact with one another within boundaries?

I understand that friendship with non-Mahram is not permissible. However, would it be okay in the case that both parties, female and male, have no ill intention and interact with one another within boundaries?

I understand that friendship with non-Mahram is not permissible. However, would it be okay in the case that both parties, female and male, have no ill intention and interact with one another within boundaries?

Sayyed Mohammad Al-Musawi, Sayyed Mohammad al-Musawi is originally from Iraq and heads up the World Ahlul Bayt Islamic League in London. Other than being involved in various humanitarian projects, he frequently responds to... Answered 2 years ago

No friendship can be permissible between non Mahram men and women. Dealing with doctors or teachers or lawyers or government officers etc from other gender is permissible as far as it does not have emotional impact at all, which in fact not a friendship but just work only.

Friendship between non Mahram men and women is not permissible even if you have no emotional intention now. You can not guarantee the intention of the other person neither now nor in the future.

Wassalam.

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