So, before getting such feelings for each other, they have...

So, before getting such feelings for each other, they have already crossed the limit of shari'ah. It is this phenomenon about which the mujtahidin have said that it is definitely wajib for a woman to cover her face and palms if there is a possibility of someone looking at her with lustful eyes. This is fatwa, (not Ihtyat) and all the mujtahidin are unanimous in this matter. Now comes the second step, and that is "talking to each other" Verbally or in writing.

A few authentic ahadith from the Ma'sumeen (A.S) When women wanted to enter into the fold of Islam, the Prophet (S.A.W) Used to make it a condition of bay 'ah that "they should not talk with any man except their mahram." (Da'a'imu'l-Islam). 'Ali (A.S) said that the Prophet (S.A.W) had prohibited that a woman should talk to anyone (other than her husband or her mahram) more than Five words it becomes necessary.

(Man La Yahduruhu 'l-Faqih; Da'a'imu'l-lslam) Imam Ja'far as-Sadiq (A.S) said: Talking with women is among the traps of the Shaitan. (Da 'a 'imu 'l-Islam). 'Ali (A.S) said: "Verily there are five things which follow (other) five things, and these five must throw (the culprit) into the Fire:.... and whoever indulges in joking with young girls and boys, will fall into fornication; and the fornicator is bound to enter the Fire.(Mustadrak).

Talking or joking aside, Islam seriously discourages men to do salaam to women. There are several ahadith in Al-Kafi, Man la yahduruhu 'l-faqih and other books which say that it is makruh for men to do salaam to women, more so if they are young.

Looking at this matter in the light of our present day social and family environment, this business of love-letters may create real problems, if the parents or guardians of the boy or the girl, when approached by them to agree to, and bless their marriage, refuse to do so. The scenarios that may follow this refusal are easy to imagine, but none of them is pleasant. Q. 31: Non-alcoholic beer!! The sale of non-alcoholic beer is in fashion here.

And when one of my friends visited one such store, he was told he could get alcoholic one too but from the inside of the store! So the objection may not be for the sale of non-alcoholic but the step two of inducing the customer to taste the alcoholic as well! A: It is the same hypocrisy about which I have written somewhere else and it has come from Mecca and Medina, so it has the sanction of the Wahhabi Islam!!