Dr. Rif`at Fawzi, former professor of Shari`ah atCairo Univ., states: “Based on the juristic rule of blocking the means to evil and averting doubts, a Muslim male is not permitted to tell a non-mahram (marriageable) woman that he loves her for the sake of Allah. But if she is one of his mahrams (non-marriageable), there is nothing wrong in telling her that he loves her for the sake of Allah.”