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Monday, March 17, 2025

726. Can a Woman Get A Massage?

 By Asma Bint Shameem

 A woman may get a massage only if certain conditions are fulfilled. 

For example 

- the one massaging is also woman 

- the woman is completely covered and there’s no unnecessary exposure. 

- the area between the navel and the knee is completely covered all the time and is not to be touched or removed. 

- there’s no fear of fitnah (temptation) or harm etc. 

-if there’s a “NEED” for it. 

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said: 

 “If a husband does it (massage) with his wife or the wife with her husband, then there is no harm in this because if the affair is like this, it is allowed even if his desires are aroused. His desires are fulfilled with his wife. As for if it is done between other then them, then in it is fitnah. If a young man does that with another man, is it not feared that his desires will be aroused? Of course, even if a woman did it with another women it is feared her desires will be aroused because the woman has desires like how a man has desires. So I do not see this permitted except with a husband with his wife. Likewise, if we assume that the man is very old and he has daughters and he requests them to press his back, then there is no harm with this because desires in this situation are very far. An old man needs this and along with his need and desires being far, we say: there is no harm in this In Shaa’ Allaah.”

And Allaah knows best

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