What is the ruling on publishing magazines that feature unveiled women in a seductive manner and that focus on news of male and female actors, and what is the ruling on those who work in distributing and purchasing them?
It is impermissible to publish magazines that include the dissemination of women's images or the promotion of indecencies and abominations. It is also impermissible to work in their editing or promotion, as this constitutes cooperation in sin and aggression and the spread of corruption on Earth, in affirmation of His (the Most High) saying: (And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression). And according to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever calls to misguidance will bear a burden of sin equivalent to that of those who follow him." Among what has been narrated condemning women who are dressed yet naked, inclining and inclined, is the hadith: "Two types of the people of Hell I have not seen yet... and women who are dressed yet naked, inclining and inclined, their heads like the humps of leaning camels. They will not enter Paradise nor smell its fragrance."
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