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| Imam Yahya Garba Al-Yolawi |
THE
SUMMARY OF 265TH SERMON AT AREA 10 JUMA'AH MASJID ABUJA, BY YAHYA AL-YOLAWI, ON
21st t FEB. 2020/ 27 J/THANI
1441AH
TOPIC:
EVIL CONSQUENCES OF
FONICATION AND ADULTRY (ZINA)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful,
the Especially Merciful.
To
proceed; Respected brothers and sisters in
Islam, today’s khutbah centered on: Evil consequences of fornication and
adultery (Zinaa).
Islam as a religion is very much concern of establishing descent
moral standard in individuals within the community, thus constituted many laws
that promote chastity and regulate strong
sexual desires that assist to
control it; Islam also encouraged
remaining firm in your Iman and warned against transgressing the limits of shariah laws by
all means.
Islam has preserved people’s dignity and protected families from
being mixed. Therefore, fornication and adultery are forbidden and classified
as major and destructive sins.
Islam has forbidden not only
committing zina but everything that could lead to it , such as mixing of the
opposite sexes, immoral exchange of looks between the two sexes, immoral words,
seductive moves between a man and a woman or
being in seclusion in a room, office, car, phone, shop, online and anything else which could lead to this
awful sin. Allah (SWT) says: “And do not come close to unlawful sexual
intercourse. Indeed, it is ever an immorality and is evil as away”. Q17: 32
Some of the verses and ahadith on fornication and adultery (zinaa)
includes:
1.
Zina
(fornication and adultry) is one of the highly self-destructive major sins in
Islam:
Allah says: “ And those who
do not invoke with Allah another deity or kill the soul which Allah has forbidden [to be killed], except by right,
and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse (zina) and whoever should do that
will meet a penalty. Multiplied for him
is the punishment on the Day of resurrection, and he will abide therein
humiliated-” . Q25:68-69.
It was narrated by Ibn Mas’ud who said, “I asked the Messenger
of Allah (pbuh),“What is the most grievous sin in the sight of Allah?” He said,
“To associate others with Allah while He created you… and to commit adultery
with your neighbor’s wife.”
2. Adulterer
is one of the three people Allah [SWT] will not talk to in the day of
resurrection: “There are three people to whom Allah,
the Most High will not talk, nor will He forgive them of sins nor look at them:
an aged person guilty of adultery, a king who lies and a poor beggar who is
proud.” (Muslim)
3. It leads to severe punishment in both here
and hereafter. Allah SWT says:
"The un married woman and the un married man, found guilty of sexual
intercourse -flog each of them with a hundred lashes. Let not pity withhold you
in the religion of Allah if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a
party of the believers witness their punishment. [Quran, 24: 2] The punishment mentioned
in this verse concerns only single fornicators only. In case of married
adulterers (even if they experienced marriage before) they must be stoned until
death as carried out by the Prophet (SAW). But even if they escaped the worldly
punishment and died without making repentance, they will never go free in the
day of Qiyamah..
It was narrated from Samurah ibn Jundub in the long Hadith that the
prophet (S.A.W) said: “...I said to my
two companions, ‘Subhanallah! Who are these two persons?’ They said, ‘Move on!’
So we went on, and came to something like a tannoor (a kind of oven, lined with
clay, usually used for baking bread). We looked into it and saw naked men and
women. A flame of fire was reaching them from underneath, and when it reached
them, they cried out loudly. I asked who
are those o Gabriel he said: [The naked men and women whom you saw in a
structure that resembled an oven] they
are adulterers and adulteresses”. Bukhari
4.
An adulterer is
not a believer while committing adultery:
The following hadith was stated by the Prophet
(SAW),“An adulterer is not a believer at the time of committing adultery.”
(Bukhari and Muslim)
EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF FORNICATION AND ADULTERY (ZINA):
There are bad personal, religious, social, economic, and health
consequences of zina such as: Poverty, constant humiliation and disgrace
Darkness of face, that would be obvious to people, darkness of the heart, HIV
/STDs, punishment, becoming insignificant in the eyes of people and in the
sight of Allah SWT. Ibn Al-Qayyim
may Allah have
mercy on him said, “Fornication and adultery combine
all evils; weakness in commitment to the religion, [as we can see] lack of
piety, destruction of mind men and women and the decrease of praiseworthy jealousy. You
will never find an adulterer or fornicator who is pious, fulfills his promises,
truthful in his speech, maintains friendship or has protective jealous over his
wife; he will be characterized by lies, deception, betrayal, devil- agents and
not being mindful of Allah."
There are also other consequences such as:
• Inviting the wrath of Allah the Almighty.
• Corruption of one's wife and children.
• Poverty and gloominess of the face, which will be apparent to
people.
• Darkness of the heart.
• Loss of the characteristics of chastity and righteousness and
becoming known as a sinful, betraying adulterer or fornicator.
• Not being classified as a believer in general.
• Being condemned as an evil person.
All these are consequences of zinaa.
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FACTORS LIABLE OF ZINA
There are a number of factors responsible of committing zina, some
are internal while others are external factors.
INTERNAL FACTORS
1.
Weakness in iman.
2.
Lack of piety (taqwa).
3.
Heart Disease.
4.
Indulging in one or more devil traps
through once 5 sense organs; especially eyes, ears, hand, tongue, etc.
5.
Worldly material inclination
EXTENAL FACTORS
1.
Shaitan (Devil)
2.
Indecent dressing of matured ladies.
3.
Environment (offices, campus, parks
etc)
4.
Bad friends
5.
Smart phones abuse
6.
Misuse or abuse of mass media and Social
Media
7.
Inadequate Government support to
eradicate sex hawkers on our streets.
SOLUTION/REMEDIES
1. Getting married/fasting: marriage is the sharia (legal Islamic
law) and natural protection for the Muslim man and woman. the hadith states “O
young men, whoever among you can afford to get married, let him do so, and
whoever cannot afford it, let him fast, for that will be a shield for him.”
(Bukhari, 4778; Muslim, 1400)
2. Take an example from prophet Yusuf (AS) and how he was able to
overcome temptations.
3. Muslims should strive to strengthen their Iman through zikr,
reading Qur’an, offering prayers “Indeed, prayer prohibits immorality and
wrongdoing, and the remembrance of Allah is greater. And Allah knows that which
you do”.Q:29:45
4. Government support in stopping prostitution and indecent dresses
in public places.
5. Taking time to choose righteous friends and environment to live
with. Allah says “And keep your self-patient [by being] with those who call
upon their Lord in the morning and the evening, seeking His countenance and let
not your eyes pass beyond them, desiring adornments of the worldly life, and do
not obey one whose heart We have made heedless of our remembrance and who
follows his desire and whose affair is ever [in] neglect”.Q18:29
6.Avoid online and offline temptations
and keeping away from anything that
might stimulate desire such as looking at opposite sex with desire, talking,
touching, shaking, kissing, hugging, watching sex pictures and movies all these
are haram and you would be asked about each one of them.
7. Remember the punishments and evil consequences for zina in this
world (100 strokes or stoning to death) and in the hereafter (on ALLAH knows alone),
and that is far prevail over the immediate five (5) minutes pleasure that one
may experience.
8. One of the seven (7) people to be shade in the here- after is
who resist temptation from a beautiful lady as confirmed by an authentic
hadith.
8. Make Dua, get up in mid
nights pray and repents, submitting yourself to him and humbling
yourself before His majesty asking Him to forgive you. He does not turn away
His servants if they are sincere.
May
Allah forgive me where I am wrong and guide us to the right path…Ameen.
May
He [SWT] assist us and ease our tasks in this world and in the hereafter. O
Allah grant us peace in our hearts,
peace in our homes, peace in our working places and eliminate bad habit,
and evils deeds in our country Nigeria.
Ameen.
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