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Please note: this fatwa has been translated by artificial intelligence.
Touching with Desire and Looking at the Private Parts
According to the Hanafi scholars, touching a woman with desire or looking at the private parts makes the branches and roots forbidden. Is a sister considered among the roots and branches or among the relatives? And if a woman is touched with desire, does that make her sister forbidden, whether before or after puberty?
Answer
I say, and with God's success: The sister is not from the origins, and the detail of desire in touch and sight is the state that precedes intercourse, which almost certainly leads to intercourse, and this only applies to the desired one, and God knows best.
