{"id":2730,"date":"2021-02-12T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2021-02-12T08:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T06:56:01","slug":"grandparents-siblings-being-mahrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2730","title":{"rendered":"Grandparents siblings being Mahrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Grandparents siblings being Mahrams<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Is a woman\u2019s grandfather\u2019s and grandmother\u2019s brother\u2019s Mahrams? Can they shake hands for longer periods of time? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>A woman\u2019s grandfather\u2019s and grandmother\u2019s brothers are considered Mahrams (non-strangers) to each other. It is permissible for them to shake\/hold hands (Musaafahah) with each other whenever they meet provided that there is no fear of temptation (Fitnah) that may arise between them. <strong>(Surah Nisaa\u2019 23).<\/strong> It is inappropriate for them to shake\/hold each other\u2019s hands for long periods of time.<\/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>Grandparents siblings being Mahrams Q. Is a woman\u2019s grandfather\u2019s and grandmother\u2019s brother\u2019s Mahrams? Can they shake hands for longer periods of time? A. A woman\u2019s grandfather\u2019s<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":[67,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laws-of-women","category-nikah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","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=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}