Message #12356

[muslima]

Hummm, very interesting and intelligent discussion.  Let me add one more misinterpretation through which Muslims try to promote zina.  It's through the Bukhari Hadith.  I'm not sure about the Shiias, but various communities of Sunnis do use it as an excuse to justify zina. 

In the Noble Quran there is no death penalty for zina, instead the punishment is 100 lashes.  But the Hadith has introduced the law from the altered Christian & Jewish bibles of death penalty for zina.  Since the Quran confirms that punish for such a violation is 100 lashes and not death, therefore the Hadith has twisted this law and made its own rule by separating adultery and fornication.  The Hadith law claims that punishment for adultery (i.e. extra-marital sex by married people) is death, but punishment for fornication (i.e. extra-marital sex between two unmarried people) is 100 lashes. 

With the passage of time, as the Muslim community has blended with western culture, it ignores the punishment of 100 lashes for fornication and only upholds that the punishment for adultery is death.  So you can see how much they have deviated from the actual Quranic law.

Now, my point here is, in view of the changes brought by Hadith, there are many sunni Muslim men who think that extra-marital sex with a married woman is zina but if that woman gets a divorce and is single, then sexual relations with her is okay.  That's how far many Sunni men have been misguided by the Hadith into condoning their sin.   I remember reading a story about the late Diana Spencer Windsor and one of her many lovers.  One of her boyfriends was a Pakistani sunni doctor living in UK.  This doctor gave his story to a British newspaper in which he mentioned that he did not consummate his relationship with Ms. Spencer as long as she was legally married.  But he considered it fine to consummate their relationship when she got her legal divorce because according to him, sexual relations between two unmarried people was fine.  May the curse of Allah Almighty be on such degraded minds !!

you are right sister heba  Sunni men's are misguided by the Hadith,ulmas give them extra unquranic rights on behalf of bukhari

these bukhari follower fixed death penalty for zina only for women 
 i  have never heard that men get death penalty of zina ? punishment of 100 lashes ? never ?