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Ethics and characterFamily, marriage and kinship
Summary
Sheikh Omar Abdelkafy counts the keeping of secrets among the first of the trusts, and gives the example of money deposited with a friend that is returned on time. 1 He condemns the spreading of what happens in homes and gatherings, and holds that what is said in a gathering is a trust that should not leave it. 2
The speaker's view: spreading the secrets of homes
He criticises those who spread the secrets of homes among female friends and relatives, and calls this a betrayal that ruins homes and makes light of the Hereafter. He says that some women, in their gatherings, reveal what passes between spouses (needs_source: this detail is spoken once in the recording and has not been verified). 3 He holds that curiosity divides people and draws them into the secrets of others, and that what is said in a gathering is a trust that should not leave it. 2
The story of Abu Bakr and Umar
He recounts that Abu Bakr asked Umar whether he had found anything from him, and that Umar admitted he had heard the Prophet ﷺ mention Hafsa. He counts this as fulfilling the trust of keeping a secret (needs_source: the narration is garbled in some of its wording). 4
The speaker's view: the chest as a grave for a secret
He reports the saying of the scholars that a person's chest should be a store for a secret that it does not release, then speaks of young men studying in America and of an account about Arab students, which is garbled (needs_source: the saying is not attributed to a named author in the recording, and the account is garbled). 5
People and things also explored
Joy and gladness (al-farah wal-surur)· Hardship and fear of sin ('anat) in marrying a slave-woman· Shahwa (desire: its effect on touch and ablution, on fasting and pilgrimage, on looking, on marriage by touch and on the breaking of the marriage bond)· Shakk (doubt in law: its kinds, the rule that certainty is not removed by doubt, and its effect on worship, contracts, penalties and evidence)· Ghadd al-basar (lowering the gaze)· Hadiyya (gift)· Hajr (abandonment and shunning: its rules for a believer, a sinner, an innovator and a wife)· Hiba (gift: its pillars, the parties, the thing given, possession, return and conditions)
Sources
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Fawzu Al Moubeen, episode 2, at 00:22:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Fawzu Al Moubeen, episode 2, at 00:23:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Fawzu Al Moubeen, episode 2, at 00:22:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Fawzu Al Moubeen, episode 2, at 00:45:30 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
- Assabile archive of Omar Abdelkafy's lectures (audio and video) , Al Fawzu Al Moubeen, episode 2, at 00:46:00 · Listen at the archive (opens the audio at this time)
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islam.museum contributors. “Keeping secrets and trusts”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/concept/kitman-al-sirr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-25.