The Judicial Investigation into the Look at a Non-Mahram with the Aim of Marriage and Its Reason

The issue of the look at a non-Mahram with the aim of marriage is different from the prohibition of the look at a non-Mahram. Regarding the prior importance of the look for marrying, the purpose of this research is to investigate the judicial limits of the look at a non-Mahram with the aim of marriage, its reason, and ambiguous cases of this issue. The following questions also have been answered: what are the limits of allowable look? Does the permission of the look depend whether the proposer first does elementary searches about the girl and like her from all aspects or he can judicially have a look at her before doing searches? Are boys permitted to have a look at many girls in order to choose a girl with the aim of marriage? What is the reason the look at a non-Mahram is permitted with the aim of marriage? This analytical-descriptive research concludes that the proposer is permitted to have a look at the girl›s face and two hands, hair, and even body over her clothes and just the aim of marriage will not be enough to have the permission of the look at many girls. In addition, reasons for the permission of the look are the followings: not to harm men in paying the dowry, and to marry consciously in order to form a stable family on the basis of love and affection.