The Ruling on Acquiring Pictures of Women
Question :
Some people acquire pictures of unrelated women and look at them in order to get pleasure from them, claiming that these are only pictures and not real. What is the ruling on this?
Answer:
This kind of carelessness is very dangerous, because when a man looks at a woman, whether it be through the film media or through the newspapers or other things, it must lead to temptation (Fitnah) in his heart, which leads him to deliberately look at actual women, and this has been observed. It has come to us that there are young men who acquire pictures of beautiful women in order to obtain gratification or get pleasure from looking at them. This proves the great temptation and trial involved in looking at these pictures, so it is not permissible for a man to look at these pictures, whether they are in magazines, newspapers or anything else, because in that there is temptation and trial (Fitnah), which harms him in his religion and attaches his heart to looking at women, and he continues to look at them in person. And Allah knows best.
Source:
Ibn 'Uthaimin
Fatawa Islamiyah, Vol. 5 Pages 110-111
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