Can a person with AIDS
masturbate?

Is it permissible for an HIV positive person to
masturbate?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Firstly:
A person who is a carrier of the virus or who
has AIDS may get married to a woman who is
healthy or who also has the disease, if she
accepts that after coming to know of his
condition and to what extent he is affected,
and they may agree not to have children, or
not to have intercourse. The husband may be
masturbated by his wife, and there is no sin on
him for that.
But it is not permissible for him to get
married without informing the woman of his
sickness, because concealing it is deceit and is
haraam. If he conceals it then the wife finds
out, she has the right to annul the marriage.
Secondly:
Masturbation is haraam, as has been explained
in question no. 329.
But if the person who has AIDS cannot get
married, and he is afraid that he may fall into
zina (fornication), it is permissible for him to
masturbate, so as to choose the lesser of two
evils.
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have
mercy on him) said: With regard to ejaculating
by choice, if he masturbates with his hand,
this is haraam according to most of the
scholars, and it is one of the two reports
narrated from Ahmad, in fact it is the more
correct of the two. According to another
report it is makrooh, but if he is compelled to
do that, such as one who fears that he may fall
into zina if he does not masturbate, or he
fears that he may become ill, then in this case
there are two well known scholarly views and
in this case a number of the earlier and later
scholars granted a concession, whereas others
forbade it. And Allaah knows best. End quote
from al-Fataawa al-Kubra (1/302).
It says in Sharh al-Muntaha (3/366): Whoever
masturbates with no need, man or woman, his
action is forbidden and he should be
disciplined for that because it is a sin. But if
he does it for fear of committing zina or
homosexuality, then there is no punishment,
and if he does it for fear of physical harm the
same applies, and more so. But it is not
permissible for a man to masturbate with his
hand unless he is unable to get married,
because if he is able to get married there is no
need for that.

And Allaah knows best.

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