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[Kakorot]

:salam2: hope everyone is well and high in eemaan

Just wondering can anyone help me. For the holiday I am doing voluntary work in this day care centre for old people. And sometimes it is required for me to help/assist old men. Therefore, I have to touch them like sometimes holding their arms and hands. I was just wondering is this haraam, since they are not my mahram and they are old men, very old who can hardly walk, some are even blind.

JazakaAllaahu khayran/ jazakillaahu khayran

 

[ummyasiin]

This is a good question, I wondered this a while back when I worked @ a rehab hospital and sum of my patients were young males, I remember reading once a while back of how one of the mother of the believers used to volunteer in nursing the wounds of the sahabahs from the war, and based from "personal" decision on what I read,....If any one have knowledge of what im saying plz post it for I no longer have the book of my proof. and Allah (swt) knows best.

 

[thariq2005]

As salamu alaikkum... I came across many fatawaah that it is not permitted, but however here is a fatwah I came across.

I know that it is not permissible to shake hands with a non-mahram woman, but what if she is a 5 year old girl or an old woman – is it permissible to shake hands with them?.

Praise be to Allaah.

It is not permissible to shake hands with a non-mahram woman, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “For one of you to be stabbed in the head with an iron needle is better for him than to touch a woman who is not permissible for him.” Narrated by al-Tabaraani from the hadeeth of Ma’qil ibn Yasaar; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami’ (5045).

It makes no difference whether the woman is young or old, because of the general meaning of this hadeeth.

Al-Mawsoo’ah al-Fiqhiyyah (29/296).

The Standing Committee for Issuing Fatwas was asked: Is it permissible for an old woman to shake hands with a non-mahram man?

They replied:

It is not permissible for an old woman or for any other woman to shake hands with a non-mahram man, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “I do not shake hands with women.” Narrated by Maalik, Ibn Maajah, Ahmad and al-Nasaa’i. This is general in meaning and includes both old and young, for fear of fitnah (temptation). End quote.

Fataawa al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah (17/47).

With regard to young girls who are not regarded as desirable, those who are younger than seven years, there is nothing wrong with looking at them or shaking hands with them. It says in al-Insaaf (8/23): It is not forbidden to look at the ‘awrah of a child below the age of seven, or to touch it. This was stated by Imam Ahmad. Al-Athram narrated that there is nothing wrong with a man putting a small girl in his lap and kissing her, so long as there is no desire. End quote.

As salamu alaikkum sister...