to its mundane love and start performing deeds contrary to the Shar’iah, they destroy their worldly life and the Hereafter; for them this is a matter to ponder over:

Shaykh-e-Tareeqat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, the founder of Dawat-e-Islami, ‘Allamah Maulana Abu Bilal Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri Razavi دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـه has said: These days, there is a rapidly growing trend of romantic love. The main cause of this is that most Muslims do not have necessary Islamic knowledge and are far away from a religious environment. This has also caused a flood of sins everywhere. Watching love stories and dramas on TV, VCR and the internet etc., reading novels, monthly magazines, digests, romantic fictions and exaggeratedly love-related news published in newspapers, attending coeducational classes at colleges and universities and freely meeting and talking to non-Mahram relatives are the causes of love among the youth of today.

At first, love is one-sided but the other partner when informed about it also sometimes falls in love, leading to a severe storm of sins. These lovers then engage in shameless conversations over phone and even meet with each other, they exchange love letters and gifts, and secretly promise to marry each other. If their family members cause any obstruction, they sometimes elope, and the news of their elopement is published in papers, causing disgrace for their families. At times, they get married by a court, but sometimes they go beyond all moral bounds even without marriage, and then the corpses of illegitimate babies of such cruel unmarried couples are found lying in a garbage. Furthermore, if they are unable to elope, then they commit suicide. This type of news is often published in newspapers. (Nayki ki Da’wat, pp. 40)

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It is Haraam for men to wear a gold ring. It is permissible for men to only wear a ring allowed for men i.e. with only one gem/stone. It is permissible to wear a silver ring that weighs less than 4.5 Masha (i.e. 4 grams and 374 mg) and that has only one gem. Similarly, it is not permissible for men to wear more than one (permissible) ring or (one or more than one) gem-less ring because in reality, a gem-less ring is not considered as a ring. Women can wear rings