Masturbation

Question :

O noble Shaykh, please inform me about the Islamic ruling on masturbation; also, how can one rid himself of this habit?

Answer:

Masturbation, inciting ejaculation by using one's hand, is unlawful; its harms are great, a fact that many doctors have pointed out. Allâh Almighty says describing the people of faith:
"And those who guard their chastity (i.c. private parts, from illegal sexual acts). Except from their wives or (the slaves) that their right hands possess, for then, they are free from blame; But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors."

Masturbation goes against those qualities that Allâh Almighty described the believers with: it involves transgression against one's own self. Whoever practices it must abandon it, replacing it with what the Prophet prescribed:
"O group of young people, whoever among you is able to marry, then let him marry, for marriage is more modest for the eyes and safer for the private part. If someone is not able, then let him fast, for it is a shield (against desire)."

By applying this prophetic advice, anyone can by the will of Allah Almighty-overcome this wicked habit. Moreover, there is no harm in asking a doctor to prescribe some kind of treatment for someone who is neither able to fast nor to abstain from this wicked habit. In an authentic Hadith, the Prophet ﷺ said:
"Allah Almighty has not sent down a disease except that he has also sent down for it a cure; he knows it who knows it, and he is ignorant of it who is ignorant of it."

The Prophet ﷺ also said:
"O servants of Allah, seek cure cure (from your ailments), but don't seek a cure by unlawful means."

We ask Allah Almighty to protect us and all of the Muslims from all that is evil.