Geebath and Zina

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GEEBATH AND ZINA

By: A. Ismail Sait


GEEBATH:

In Sura 49. verse 12, we have been fore-warned regarding three human traits, grouped as a trio consisting of (i) suspicion, (ii) spying, and (iii) backbiting.

In a human society, these three are unavoidable. By any strech of imagination, we cannot assume a society sans these three traits:

(i) Suspicion is natural, and can lead to preventive measures.

(ii) Spying can help to take preventive as well as curative measures against harm done by enemies.

(iii) Backbiting cannot be equated with complaining against some one in order to seek justice, or warning someone to be wary of a particular person or group.

Man, by nature, feels that these three traits, although unavoidable in particular situations and contexts, are not to be indulged in, to the detriment of social harmony.

Sura 49. verse 12, translates thus: "O Those who believe! Desist from suspicion aplenty, for, some of it is sinful. Neither spy (inordinately), nor (habitually) backbite one another..."

After all, the Intelligence Department is the backbone of any government. And its stock-in-trade is cumulated suspicions, and regulated spying.
As for speaking ill of a person behind his back, the folowing example will suffice:
If you know that someone is commiting zina in your neighbourhood, and you want to bring the culprit to justice, you will have to create three more witnesses besides yourself. You cannot do this without thorough deliberation and meticulous planning.

ZINA:
                                               
That all obsceneties are forbidden, has been repeated umpteen number of times in Al Quran. Fornication is an obscenity (17:32). They, including fornication have been ranked among the deadliest of sins.

In one place ZINA has been mentioned as one of a trio, along with joining partners in the worship of Allah, and murder, thereby proving beyond any doubt that it is one of the three most heinous, deadliest of sins, placed at the topmost slot among all the sins of the world.

It is the worst sin in the world, next only to invoking others beside Allah, and murder.

"Those who invoke not with Allah any other god, nor kill without absolute justificaton the life that Allah has made sacred, nor commit zina; - and any who does this (not only) meets punishment but the torment on the Day of Resurrection will be doubled for him and he will abide therein in utter ignominy." (25: 68, 69)

The original phrase translated here as "he will abide therein", belongs to the same root that is used to denote the punishment for shirk and kufr throughout the Quran: ie; khulood finnar. 

Now compare the trio in (49:12), and the trio in (25:68-69)!!

Even after chrystal clear presentation of everything in Al Quran,  we - the purported standard bearers of Al Quran - have distorted our religion so appallingly, and with such blatant impunity, that our self conceit is matchless in the past and present world!                                                 

In spite of crystal clear verses of Al Quran, we equate geebath with zina! Worse still, we consider it to be worse than zina!!

Regards,

A. Ismail Sait.

[Deliverance]

What is geebath sorry i didnt read the post

[Ismail]

Salaam.

Sorry, I just took for granted, readers will know the meanings.

geebath (not the exact transliteration) means backbiting.

Now read the first sentence in the article, and the rest will follow, in sha' Allah.

Regards,
A. Ismail Sait.