Is hearing a neighbor's conversations and the sounds of their marital life, despite not seeking to do so, religiously permissible due to the nature of housing?
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What is forbidden is listening to or eavesdropping on the private affairs of others that one is not permitted to know. However, what reaches one's hearing by chance or due to proximity is not sinful, and it must be concealed and not divulged.
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