Is it permissible to kiss my paternal aunt's daughter if she is ten years older than me, taking into account my habit of kissing her when I was young and studying at my aunt's house?
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The statement that a woman is like a mother if she is older than a man, like a sister if she is his equal, and like a daughter if she is younger than him, in terms of the permissibility of looking at her and touching her, is false, slanderous, and an assertion about Allah without knowledge. It is not permissible to kiss a paternal aunt's daughter, shake her hand, be in seclusion with her, or look at her. As for a paternal aunt, there is no harm in shaking her hand and kissing her, because she is a (an unmarriageable relative).
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