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What is the ruling on a girl loving a foreign man, conversing with him, and meeting him, while being unable to distance herself from him?

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The Muslim woman is commanded to lower her gaze, observe the hijab, and conceal her adornments from non-mahram men. She is also forbidden from speaking to non-mahram men with soft and submissive speech that might lead to a man's temptation. This girl has committed all these forbidden acts, so she must rectify her situation with sincere repentance, regretting what has passed, abandoning it immediately, and resolving not to return to it in the future. If she does this, Allah the Almighty will accept her repentance. She must be wary of death coming to her while she is in her previous state. The fact that the sister tried to abandon it but could not, perhaps the reason is that she was not sincere in her repentance. Otherwise, if she had resolved to do so with firm determination, sought help from Allah the Almighty, filled her heart with the love of Allah the Almighty, occupied her limbs with His obedience, and filled her time with what benefits her—if she did all that—then, with Allah's permission, she will see the rectification of her affairs and the soundness of her religion and her worldly life.

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