{"id":2521,"date":"2020-03-20T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T06:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2020-03-20T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T06:52:53","slug":"covid-19-shaking-hands-in-the-case-of-contagious-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2521","title":{"rendered":"COVID 19 &#8211; Shaking Hands in the case of Contagious Diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>COVID 19 &#8211; Shaking Hands in the case of Contagious Diseases<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. With the current Corona virus outbreak, authorities have advised limited physical contact with each other. What would be advised in terms of greeting our fellow Muslim brothers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>In normal circumstances, it is <strong>recommended<\/strong> (Mustahab) for one to shake\/join hands (Musaafaha) when one Muslim meets another Muslim. However, in the current circumstances, one would be excused for not shaking or joining hands when meeting others out of precaution.<\/p>\n<p>In the situation where a person is confirmed to have an infectious disease, like the Corona virus, it is considered <strong>Makrooh<\/strong> (disliked) to shake or join hands with them. <strong>(Mawsooah Fiqhhiyya 37\/356 \u2013 Fiqhul Islami Waadillatuhu 4\/2661) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the current outbreak of the Corona virus, one should suffice by simply making Salaam without shaking or joining hands.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID 19 &#8211; Shaking Hands in the case of Contagious Diseases Q. With the current Corona virus outbreak, authorities have advised limited physical contact with each<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}