What is the ruling on an unmarried person watching indecent films?
The religious ruling for watching pornographic films is prohibition, due to their religious and worldly harms, and their contravention of Allah's command to lower one's gaze, as He (the Most High) says: (Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and guard their private parts. That is purer for them. Indeed, Allah is Acquainted with what they do). The viewer must repent and hasten to marry in response to human nature, or fast, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "O young people, whoever among you can afford to marry, let him do so, and whoever cannot afford it, let him fast, for it will be a shield for him."
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