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Praise be to Allah,
Lord of the worlds.

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Abundant, pure, blessed praise.

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He completed the religion for us
and perfected the blessing on us.

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He approved Islam as religion for us.

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And I bear witness there is no god
but Allah alone, with no partner.

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He has not imposed on us in religion.

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Any hardship.

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And He intended ease for us
and did not intend hardship for us.

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And I bear witness that Muhammad
is His servant and Messenger.

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He was sent with the upright
and tolerant faith.

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And if given a choice of two matters
he chose the easier unless it was sinful.

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ﷺ.

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And upon his family and his
noble, blessed Companions.

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And upon his wives, the Mothers
of the Believers, and the Followers.

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And those who followed them with
excellence until Judgment Day. To proceed.

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Indeed, discussing applications of
fiqh of ease in fatwas for women visitors.

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requires mentioning the concept.

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The concept of facilitation
and stating its criterion.

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Then moving on to these applications.

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So I will mention the concept
and the criterion briefly.

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The concept of facilitation,
and of ease, is that the servant complies.

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Commands and prohibitions
without hardship beyond the ordinary.

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And its criterion is the Sharia,
not whim.

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For the Sharia came to move people
from self-will to God's will in practice.

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the pleasure of their Lord ﷻ.

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Accordingly, the mufti strives
to realize this great objective.

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Ease in the Sharia is of two kinds.

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An inherent ease.

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It encompasses the whole Sharia
in its foundations and branches.

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Allah ﷻ said, "He has not placed
upon you in the religion any hardship."

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And He said, "Allah intends ease for you."

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"He does not intend hardship for you."

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And the Prophet ﷺ said:
"This religion is easy."

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And the second type.

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It is incidental, partial ease
that comes to relieve undue hardship.

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And the applications fall
under both types together.

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And modern analogues are
measured against both.

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And I focused these applications on
women visitors to the Prophet's Mosque.

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Without discussing ease
in the rulings of Hajj and Umrah.

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That has its own subject;
it has been discussed.

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It is a vast sea with many issues.

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I will discuss these applications
through their main points and principles.

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so they become clear.

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The proof for these applications
is clear, and their meaning is evident.

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The first of these principles
is that ease.

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in religion's roots
and branches alike.

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And very often.

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When ease is discussed, the mind
often turns to religion's branches

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while overlooking the ease in
the Sharia's foundations.

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Indeed, tawhid and following the
Sunnah are ease, comfort, and peace.

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And the fatwas are based

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upon the Book of Allah ﷻ and the Sunnah
of His Prophet ﷺ.

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according to the understanding of the
righteous predecessors.

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This noble meaning is instilled.

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Then comfort, ease,
and tranquility are attained.

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And this, praise be to Allah,

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This comes through the blessed efforts
of our brothers.

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The muftis and guides in this noble
Prophet's Mosque and al-Masjid al-Haram.

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The opposite of that lies in shirk
and bid'ah.

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And leaving the Prophet's ﷺ
guidance is hardship and division.

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And disagreement and no peace of mind.

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And the fatwas of the people of whims
and innovations.

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lead people to extreme hardship
and difficulty, away from Allah ﷻ.

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The second point.

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That ease applies to men and women.

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However, for women, ease is even
greater and more abundant.

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in consideration of her condition.

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And this is among the beauties
of the radiant Sharia.

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for it considered a woman's
condition and granted her ease.

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more so than for men.
For example:

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No personal jihad is required of them,
nor Jumu'ah nor jama'ah.

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And among the applications of this ease
in this mosque and other mosques

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What is best for a woman
is to pray in her home.

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And she must not be barred
from the houses of Allah.

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The Prophet ﷺ said,
as Abu Dawud reported.

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Do not prevent Allah's
maidservants from Allah's mosques.

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But let them go out
without perfume, i.e. not perfumed.

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And in another narration:
"Do not prevent women from the mosques."

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"Do not prevent women from mosques.
Their homes are better for them."

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And this is part of that ease.

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As stated by our Prophet ﷺ,
this is clear in two ways.

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The first aspect.

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That her prayer in her home
is better for her.

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And in this is ease for her.

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And protection and
safeguarding for her.

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And if.

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The second aspect of ease is that
if she wishes to go to the mosque.

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then her guardian should not
prevent her.

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For the Prophet ﷺ said,
Do not bar Allah's women from His mosques.

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So it fulfills this desire for her.

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subject to its condition:
that she go out unadorned.

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For his ﷺ saying:
"But let them go out unperfumed."

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And another facilitation is that
the reward.

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She receives it
while she is at home.

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Even this multiplied reward.

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is granted to her many times over.

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whenever she wished to pray
in the Prophet's Mosque—and then.

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Then she left that and prayed at home.

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And he was asked.

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the eminent Shaykh 'Abd al-'Aziz
ibn Baz RH, about prayer.

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Should the optional prayer be prayed
in the Prophet's Mosque or at home?

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He replied that the texts
are general in scope.

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So praying at home is better.

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And the texts on that concur.

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He also said that one receives
the multiplied reward.

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If he prays it in his house,
in his dwelling.

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Along with the added reward
for following the Sunnah.

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And we also say this applies to the
woman too, by Allah's help ﷻ.

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And this is from Allah's favor
upon her.

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And an aspect of ease is that
prescribed gathering in worship helps.

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obedience, removing the hardship
of worship or lessening it.

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For worship must entail
some degree of hardship.

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And prescribed gathering in worship
helps lessen that.

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Therefore Allah ﷻ prescribed
congregational prayer.

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And prescribed fasting
and prescribed.

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The Hajj. And part of that,
Allah knows best.

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is that she is not prevented from coming.

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to the mosque to ease worship for her.

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Many women become energized when,
say, they pray Taraweeh with women.

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besides the good in attending
the mosque and Muslims' supplication.

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And the Prophet ﷺ stated this clearly.

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in instructing women to go out
for the prayer.

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Eid—even Umm 'Atiyyah said.

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He even instructed young women,
secluded women, and menstruating women.

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He ordered menstruating women
to avoid the prayer area.

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And he ﷺ said, “Let them witness
good and the Muslims' supplication.”

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The good and the Muslims' supplication.

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This confirms a woman's attendance
at these beneficial gatherings.

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There is much good in it.

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That includes learning the Qur'an
and teaching it.

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and reading it and teaching
its recitation in this blessed mosque.

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And among matters related to this aspect.

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Even if a menstruating woman is
barred from entering the mosque.

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There is no harm in her being
in its courtyard. For this reason.

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This courtyard surrounding the
Prophet's Mosque.

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Apparently, it does not have
the ruling of the mosque.

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Even if it were enclosed
by this wall.

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This wall was not built to incorporate
this courtyard into the mosque. Therefore.

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I'tikaf is not observed there;
I'tikaf there is not valid.

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Thus.

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If she comes and it is easy
for her to hear

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the sermons and lessons,
that is a great good.

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Praise and favor be to Allah.

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And this specifically indicates
the courtyard is not part of the mosque.

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Ibn Battah narrated with a chain
from Aishah (RA), Abu Bakr (RA)'s daughter:

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We were in i'tikaf, and when we
menstruated, the Prophet ﷺ ordered.

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leave the mosque.

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And have tents pitched for them
in the courtyard until they became pure.

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And among the features of ease.

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Please conclude, Shaykh.

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I'll conclude.
Another aspect of facilitation.

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This includes respecting
local customs.

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Especially regarding clothing.

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Women's clothing differs
from one country to another.

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And fatwa authorities in these lands
don't require women to wear.

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A specific color or a specific style.

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What matters is that the clothing
conforms to Sharia guidelines.

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Another facilitation is easing
access to fatwa.

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by obtaining fatwa
from qualified sisters.

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in the women's areas, and this is
available to them.

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With praise to Allah ﷻ
and His tawfiq.

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And this is something for which

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this blessed Presidency is thanked.

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May Allah reward everyone
for listening attentively.

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And thank you, Your Excellency,
Mr. President. May Allah bless you.