Question
Please comment on the ‘Medina team supper’ in which men and women participate. This happens on Umrah and Hajj trips. Such mixed dinners are organized by Molvis at some restaurant. Molvi Ahmed Aakoo and Qari Talhah Dendar of Travel & Tour World, World of Travel and Flywell Travel are involved in promoting such mixed men and women dinners. Can such intermingling ever be permissible on the basis of the journey being a spiritual one?
Answer
Such journeys are not spiritual. They are satanic. Hadhrat Fudhail Bin Iyaadh (Rahmatullah alayh) said that generally people emerge from their bathrooms purified of sin while numerous people return from the Ka’bah loaded with sins. This is so because sins are washed off when a person makes wudhu with sincerity. The Hadith mentions that the sins fall from the limbs as the drops of water fall. Thus they emerge purified of sin from the bathroom.
On the other hand, especially in this era of fitnah and fasaad, people recklessly indulge in sins in the Holy Cities. One such major sin is the abandonment of Hijaab which leads to mingling of men and women.
The dining and ‘wining’ in which men and women participate and about which you have asked, is a function of zina. These miscreant molvis and munaafiq qaaris who plunge the ignorant laypeople into haraam, especially under cover of fake ‘spirituality’ are agents of Iblees in the truest meaning of the term. Their objective in life is the haram boodle. To acquire haram money they use the Deen as a front thereby conspicuously acting the role of a Sign of Qiyaamah. It is mentioned in the Hadith that among the Signs of Qiyaamah will be “The pursu
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