What is the ruling of Islamic law concerning a 52-year-old married woman, married for 36 years and having grandchildren, whose husband has provided her with everything except emotional affection, and so she befriended a man five years her junior and meets him without committing indecency?
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What this woman did is forbidden (), for Allah has commanded believing women to lower their gaze, and He forbade the wives of the Prophet from speaking in a soft alluring manner to men, and the Prophet prohibited private seclusion with a non- woman. This woman has overstepped all these boundaries and committed these forbidden acts. Therefore, she must perform sincere repentance ( nasuh), which includes regretting what has passed, immediately ceasing the sin, and resolving not to return to it in the future. There is no prescribed punishment (hadd) for her because she did not commit adultery, and only the ruler can carry out the prescribed punishments.
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