What is the philosophy behind the prohibition of Adultery in Islam?
Committing adultery is one of the great sins in Islam.
The evilness of this very shameful sin is accepted in almost every religion, nation and group.
The holy Quran says about adultery in chapter Isra verse 32:
وَلاَ تَقْرَبُواْ الزِّنَى إِنَّهُ كَانَ فَاحِشَةً وَسَاء سَبِيلًا
“Do not draw near to fornication, for it is an indecency, and its way is evil”.
some points can be taken from this verse, the verse does not say, just do not commit this sin, but rather it says: do not also get near to it, and getting near to this sin can be done through its preliminaries like, looking at the scenes that are unlawful and make the sexual appeal to be turned on, or looking at the opposite sex with pleasure, or looking at the sexual movies or pictures or being alone with the opposite sex in a private place, or even some hardships which are created by the parents at the time of the marriage of their children can be a kind of the preliminaries of adultery.
Another point from this verse is that it is a bad path that can lead to other sins, for example the one who commits this sin, he/she usually wants to do this sin again and again with different persons and a lot of times for obtaining the situation of this sin, might do dangerous acts, like attacking houses of people or even killing someone or if he/she cannot reach to that wanted person, he/she might commit suicide etc.
The bad consequences of adultery are so much, like the cutting of the generations, collapsing the foundation of the family, removing the purity and Hayaa(modesty), being a cause for different illnesses and a way for transferring them like H.I.V, making the illegitimate children that in a lot of cases, they do not grow in a good upbringing, and in a lot of cases their parents especially fathers leave their responsibilities towards them, the indefiniteness of the father of a child, creating the enmity and hatred among people etc.
At the end we mention a Narration from Imam Ali peace be upon him who has narrated it from the Prophet of Islam that he said:
“There are six bad consequences in the adultery, three of them are in this world and three of them are in the hereafter, the three consequences of adultery in this world are these: it takes away the (spiritual) light of face, it cuts the aliment and sustenance, and it enhances the destruction of the human, and the three which are in the hereafter are these: it is a cause for the wrath of Allah and it is a cause for the hardship of the calculation( of the deeds on the day of judgment) and it is a cause for entering or immortality in the hellfire.”
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