Khalwa and special cases of looking

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Updated on 06 October 2026 at 10:50 PM

This second part of the chapter on the rules of looking and touching brings together thirteen sheets of the fiqh encyclopedia. It covers a woman looking at another woman, looking through a mirror or water, the awrah of a slave woman, the slave looking at his mistress, looking between spouses, kissing between spouses, intercourse in the anus, uncovering one's awrah in solitude, and the rules of seclusion (khalwa) with a non-mahram woman. School positions are reported with their evidences, hadiths and classical references.

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