REGARDING THE HUSBAND AND WIFE HOLDING HANDS IN PUBLIC (ALSO THE HUSBAND PUTTING HIS HAND AROUND HIS WIFE AND KISSING)

Shaykh Muhammad bin Haadee reads the question:

Is it permissible for the husband to hold his wife’s hand or for her to grab his arm while walking in a public place?

Answer:

There is nothing wrong with this. This affair returns to the customs of the people, there is nothing wrong with this.

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A questioner from Belgium asks:

Is it permissible for a man to hold his wife’s hand in the street in front of everyone?

Answer by Shaykh Zayd bin Muhammad al-Madkhalee:

If there is fear that a harm may happen to her…If a man fears for his wife whilst walking in the street and she is covered with the legislative clothing; he fears that a harm may occur to her, whether she might be hit by cars, or in a place where it is overcrowded. Then (if) he takes her hand, there is no blame, no shame, or sin upon him.

As for if it is done for play or desire, then it is not permissible for him to do it in front of the people. Na’am.

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Putting Your Arm Around Your Wife or Holding Her Hand in Public

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ibraaheem (may Allah have mercy on him) said in his Fataawa (10/277) that kissing one’s wife in front of people is not permissible.