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In the same way that one is allowed to look at the cornfield or a flower-bed, enjoying its green and breathing in its various odors so long as he does not stretch out his hand for it, but is not allowed to stretch out his hand for a single grain of mustard seed without right to it, as he is not allowed to eat something that is forbidden, so is one allowed to talk to the singing girls, to joke, flirt, and shake hands with them, and to touch them in order to turn them around as long as nothing illicit is involved in it.  Did not Allah himself except al-lamam, ‘the lesser offenses,’ when he said: “Those who avoid the heinous things and indecencies, save lesser offenses-surely thy lord is wide in his forgiveness” (Sura 53:32, Arberry’s translation).

Jahiz then puts forward a number of interpretations of what lamam may mean, including kissing or, If I may use the expression, “petting.“

- Society and the Sexes in Medieval Islam edited by Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid-Marsot, P. 103