When referring to unlawful sexual intercourse in many religions, people won’t mind but in Islam it’s called major sin. Any sexual activity within women and women and within men and men is illegal in Islam including child abuse. Sexual activity between men and women without getting married is also considered as major sin (Zina) in Islam.
Zina can include adultery, which is by married people as extra marital affairs and fornication, which’s by unmarried parties. Also includes prostitution, pedophilia, homosexual activity and rape. However, Islam prescribes to decide after four witnesses prove the offense of Zina. Without proving if a woman blamed or a man for Zina then it’s also major offense. People shouldn’t point out at innocents involved in illegal sex when they do so not. Pointing so on so on extra marital affairs is a major sin without any proof.
Zina must be proved by four eyewitnesses to the act of illegal sex or a confession repeated four times.
What one should do to keep away from Zina? It’s always recommended in Islam that one should keep fasting whether it’s Ramadan or not. These fasts are called the Nawafil fasts (Not Obligatory) and keep praying Nawafil prayers including the obligatory ones.
Finally, extra marital affairs etc have no space in Islam as the current trend goes on to encourage such acts. These are major sins and the biggest sin in Islam is Shirk (associating partners to the Creator Almighty). Shirk will not find any place of forgiveness and will not be forgiven. Allah the Almighty and the Creator of worlds must be worshiped and not His creation and not at any man made thing etc.
Khalid M Raza
