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Islamic ethics for adultery:
The
Arabic word ‘Zina’ means all extramarital sexual
intercourse between a man and a woman. According
to Islam “Zina”
constituted social suicide—an entire society commits suicide over time if it
allows fornication and adultery to go unpunished in the Islamic style. As per
Islamic justice—unmarried fornicators receive a hundred stripes, but married
adulterers must die by stoning, as
described in the sahih hadiths.
Opinion
of some famous Islamists about Zina
The
Saudi Ambassador to London, Ghazi al-Qusaibi, says
that stoning may seem irrational to the western mind, but it is "at
the core of the Islamic faith." An intellectual, the Saudi ambassador
to London asserted that stoning adulterers to death is a legitimate punishment
for society. He also says that Westerners should respect Muslin culture on this
matter.
Sheikh
Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute
of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, states: “Adultery in Islam is one of the most
heinous and deadliest of sins. Its enormity can be gauged from the fact that it
has often been conjoined in the Qur’an with the gravest of all sins: shirk
or associating partners with Allah.
Hani
Ramadan head of the Islamic Center in Geneva (Hani
Ramadan is the elder brother of famed Swiss Muslim intellectual Tarek Ramadan,
who are both the grandsons of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of Egypt’s outlawed
Muslim Brotherhood.) stated, “Islam
has taken a firm and decisive stance against Zina (fornication or
adultery). Allah, the Almighty, commands in explicit and unequivocal words: “And
come not near unto adultery. Lo! it is an abomination and an evil way.”
(Al-Isra’: 32).”
Mufti Muhammad Aashiq Illahi Muhajir
Madani (Illuminating Discourses on the Noble Qur’an, Karachi,
Pakistan, Zam Zam, 2003) also follows this tactic of describing society that
does not undergo Islamic punishments for the two sexual crimes. Families fall
into ruin, which means society also is ruined. Sexual sins also cause widespread
disease (vol. 6, pp. 360-66).
Al
Skudsi bin Hookah, (roving reporter and foreign correspondent for The
Gaza Gajeera.): “I am very
unhappy. Our way of life is under attack. And we are not fighting back. Deep
down, we know that when a woman has disgraced her family, nothing will restore
honor except by killing her. This is
understood in Jordan, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Egypt, the Gaza strip and the West
Bank. So why are we Arabs telling the Western press that honor killing is
cultural, that it is not really part of Islam? Our way of life is based on
maintaining our honor. And make no mistake about it: a woman does tarnish
her family's honor by engaging in pre-marital sex, or by getting herself raped,
when she seeks divorce and when she marries against her family's wishes. And
keeping our women pure is a big part of our honor. So there's no point saying
honor killing isn't really part of our religion. Honor and Islam are
inextricably bound; they are what give our life meaning. A strong religion
demands we choose to maintain our honor.”
Bassam
al-Hadid, (A Jordanian with an American doctorate who spent 12 years as a
hospital administrator in the United States):
“I would do what I have to do,' said, when asked whether he would
kill a daughter who had sex outside marriage."
Status
of Women in Muslim society:
According to Islamic tradition the woman is an object owned by
the man who assumes responsibility for her behavior and her life. The social and
religious traditions lead to the isolation of the woman in her home. She is
required to cover her entire body in order to maintain the honor of the man. In
Qur’an, prophetic tradition and law, one finds a very strong presumption of women’s
chastity along with numerous safeguards to prevent any imputation of
un-chastity A Muslim feminist sexual ethics must help create the
conditions for the Qur’anic and
traditional values of modesty and chastity to be lived by Muslim women and
men in ways that are faithfully chosen and equitably maintained.
A
woman who is either raped or commits adultery becomes the source of shame to her
family. People will not marry her because she has been spoiled; she and her
family becomes the object of gossip of everyone in the society; hence the entire
family can lose prestige. No one would give a daughter to the brothers of that
girl in marriage and no one would marry her sisters. The family and even the
extended family are maligned and become outcasts. This can only stop if the
family cleanses that stain with blood. The woman thus defiled must be killed
even if she is a victim of rape.
Role of
Misogynistic attitude in Islam:
Islam is dreadfully anti-women. This statement can be
proven with 100% guarantee by the well known and established fact that—women
folks in every Muslim country in general, and in every Islamic paradise (country
where Islamic Shariaat is enforced) in particular, are severely subjugated,
oppressed, and considered less than second class citizen. Women in Islam are considered half human and in the Quran
women have half the rights of men, sister has half the rights of brother, and
women are considered deficient in intelligence.
Practically
and Literally Islam consider women as the sources of great shame. Prophet
Muhammad said women are awrah
which can be translated as object of
shame. What is awrah? The Encyclopedia of Islam defines 'awrah’as pudendum,
which is the external genitals, especially of the female. The wordTherefore,
awrah signify an object of shame that
needs to be covered.
Interestingly,
in the Indian sub-continent (Bangladesh-India-Pakistan)—women have another
alternative name calling, in spite of having their usual name for the English
word woman in the respective language. And this famous name calling is “Auraat”
and common in all the three countries of the Indian sub-continent.
Obviously this common word “Auraat”
for women came from the Arabic word Awrah.
This common word “Auraat” is
usually used as the synonym for woman with empathy, hatred, mercy and shame.
According
to the following Hadiths, women not only have ten 'awrah, but the woman
herself is perceived as 'awrah:
"The woman is 'awrah.
When she goes outside (the house), the devil welcomes her" (Ihy'a
'Uloum ed-Din by Ghazali, Dar al-Kotob al-'Elmeyah, Beirut , Vol II, Kitab Adab
al-Nikah, p. 65. Reported by Tirmizi as a true and good Ahadith).
"
Hazrat Ali (rightly guided Caliph) reported the Prophet saying: “Women have
ten ('awrah).
When she gets married, the husband covers one, and when she dies the grave
covers the ten." ( Kanz-el-'Ummal,
Vol. 22, Hadith No. 858. See also Ihy'a).
In
most fanatical Islamic nations when a woman loses her awrah by e.g. through rape, she becomes the object of shame for her
entire family, and also for the society. Only way to remove that shame and
restore the honor is to remove that defiled woman. It is practiced in most Islamic countries with a regular
pattern. The more religious is a country, the more is widespread the honor
killing. As for example, Pakistan a Muslim majority nation did not have
practice of honor killing until the fanatic and despotic Military dictator
General Ziaul Hoq came to power. This despotic ruler by his decade long
dictatorship turned Pakistan into an Islamic Sharia country. Along with intense
acceleration of making Pakistan into a hub of Talibans, and Islamic
terrorist’s country, citizens of Pakistan also started vigorous practicing of
honor killing on a regular basis.
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