The effects of Zinaa
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Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
All praise is due to Allaah and to Allaah alone. And may Allaah send peace and blessings upon His slave and the seal of the Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad the son of ‘Abdullaah.
To proceed,
Zinaa (illegal sexual intercourse) encompasses all the characteristics of evil: lack of religious commitment, loss of piety, loss of chivalry, lack of protective jealousy (gheerah). You will not find any adulterer who is pious, or keeps his promises, or speaks truthfully, or is a good friend, or has complete protective jealousy towards his family. Treachery, lying, betrayal, lack of modesty, lack of awareness that Allaah is always watching, lack of chivalry, loss of protective jealousy from the heart are just some of the effects and implications of zinaa. What follows is a list of effects of zinaa on the person that commits it:
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Zinaa is such that the one who commits it earns the wrath of Allaah because His sacred limits are transgressed. If a man were to do such a thing to any king, he would meet the direst consequences.
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Zinaa darkens the face, and the grimness and misert of face that are apparent to other people.
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Zina leaves the heart in darkness and the extinguishes its light, which is what causes the extinguishing of light in the face and the darkening thereof.
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Another effect of zinaa is the poverty that it leads to.
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Zinaa results in the loss of respect towards the one who does it, and the lowering of his status in the eyes of his Lord and in the eyes of His slaves.
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Another effect of zina is that is causes him to lose the best of attributes, namely chastity, goodness and righteousness, and it earns him their opposites, namely immorality, evildoing, adultery and betrayal.
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Zinaa causes the do-er to lose the title of believer, as it was narrated in al-Saheehayn that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “No adulterer is a believer at the moment when he is committing adultery.”
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Another of the effects of zina is that it exposes one to the possibility of being one of the inhabitants of the oven (tannoor) in which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) saw t adulterers and adulteresses.
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Zinaa also takes away the goodness which Allaah described as the attribute of those who are chaste, and replaces it with the evil which Allaah described as the attribute of the adulterers, as Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Bad statements are for bad people (or bad women for bad men) and bad people for bad statements (or bad men for bad women). Good statements are for good people (or good women for good men) and good people for good statements (or good men for good women)” [al-Noor 24:26].
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Zinaa forbids one from entering Paradise as Allaah has forbidden Paradise to every evil person, and He has made Paradise the abode of the good, and no one will enter it but those who are good. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Those whose lives the angels take while they are in a pious state (i.e. pure from all evil, and worshipping none but Allaah Alone) saying (to them): Salaamun ‘Alaykum (peace be on you) enter you Paradise, because of that (the good) which you used to do (in the world)” [al-Nahl 16:32]. “and its keepers will say: Salaamun ‘Alaykum (peace be upon you)! You have done well, so enter here to abide therein” [al-Zumar 39:73]. So they will deserve the greeting of the angels and admission to Paradise because of their goodness. But the adulterers are among the most evil of creation, and Allaah has made Hell the abode of evil and its people. When the Day of Resurrection comes, the evil will be distinct from the good, and the evil will be piled up together, then it and its people will be thrown into Hell. No one who is good will enter Hell and no one who is evil will enter Paradise.
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Another of the effects of zinaa is the sense of alienation which Allaah instills in the heart of the adulterer, and this is like the alienation that shows on his face. For the one who is chaste has sweetness in his face and contentment in his heart, and whoever sits with him feels at ease with him. But the adulterer has signs of alienation in his face and whoever sits with him will feel uneasy.
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The one who commits zinaa loses respect, as his family, friends and others lose respect for him, and he becomes the most despicable thing in their sight; this is in contrast to the chaste person, who is blessed with dignity and sweetness.
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Another of the effects of zinaa is that people will regard him as a traitor and no one will trust him with regard to his wife or child.
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Zinaa causes foul odour to emanate from the one that commits it and thus be detected by everyone who has a sound heart; it will emanate from his mouth and body, and were it not for the fact that there are all the people have a similar odour, that smell would spread far and wide.
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The zaani will feel uneasy and distressed, for adulterers are doing the opposite of what they are seeking. Whoever seeks the enjoyment and good things of life by means of that which Allaah has forbidden, Allaah will punish him by letting him get the opposite of that which he is trying to achieve. For that which is with Allaah can only be attained by obeying Him, and Allaah never makes disobedience towards Him the means of attaining anything good. If the immoral person only knew what delight, happiness, ease and good living there is in chastity, he would realize that the delights that he has missed out on are many times greater than those which he may have enjoyed, let alone the consequences in the Hereafter, when the chaste person will attain the reward of Allaah and will be honoured by Him.
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Another of the effects of zinaa is that he has exposed himself to missing out on the delights of al-hoor al-‘iyn in the beautiful abodes of the Garden of Eden (Jannaat ‘Adan). Just as Allaah will punish those who wear silk in this world by depriving them of it on the Day of Resurrection, and He will punish those who drink wine in this world by depriving them of it on the Day of Resurrection. Similarly, those who enjoy forbidden images in this world will also be deprived of such in the Hereafter. Indeed, everything that a person gets in this world, if he indulges in it by permissible means, his share of it on the Day of Resurrection will be reduced to the extent that he indulged in it. And if he got it from haraam sources, he will lose out on it altogether on the Day of Resurrection.
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Another of the effects of zinaa is that zinaa leads to cutting the ties of kinship, disobedience towards parents, haraam earnings, mistreating others, neglect of one’s wife and children, and it may even lead a person to shed blood unlawfully. He may seek help to commit zina by means of sihr (witchcraft) and shirk, and he may or not know that this sin inevitably includes other sins committed beforehand or alongside it, and that it leads to other kinds of sins that come after it. It is surrounded by a host of other sins that come before and after. It is the thing that is most likely to bring about evil in this world and the Hereafter, and the most likely to prevent good in this world and in the Hereafter. If a person falls into its traps and snares, it will be hard for sincere people to save him and for doctors to treat him; its prisoner cannot easily be ransomed, and its victim cannot be rescued. It also leads to the loss of blessings. If a person falls into this trap, let him bid farewell to the blessings of Allaah, for blessings may easily depart from a person and vanish. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “That is so because Allaah will never change a grace which He has bestowed on a people until they change what is in their ownselves. And verily, Allaah is All-Hearer, All?Knower” [al-Anfaal 8:53]. And Allaah says: “But when Allaah wills a people’s punishment, there can be no turning back of it, and they will find besides Him no protector” [al-Ra’d 13:10]
These are just some of the harmful effects of this action. May Allaah safeguard and protect the Ummah of Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) from falling intro the traps of zinaa, Aameen.
And Allaah knows best.
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Indeed we are a transgressing sinning people, and we have not worshipped and obeyed our Lord as He deserves to be worshipped and obeyed. And had it not been that our Rabb is full of Mercy, At-Tawwaab, we would be lost and destitute and would have no hope; but indeed only the disbelievers despair.
“Certainly no one despairs of Allâh’s Mercy, except the people who disbelieve.” (Yusuf 12:87)
And, Allaah Jalla wa ‘alaa says in His Noble Book:
Say: “O ‘Ibâdî (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allâh, verily Allâh forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Az-Zumar 39:53-54)
May Allaah forgive us of our sins, for no doubt if we were to weigh them they would outweigh the weight of the mountains, and were we to measure them they would exceed the distance between the heavens and the earth and the very depths of the ocean. Indeed He is the Rich, free of All needs, and we are the poor, and in need of His Mercy and forgiveness, and May Allaah make us of the repentant, and guide us and protect us from the evil of our ownselves and the evil of the misguidance of the shayaateen.
The one in need of the forgiveness and mercy of their Lord..
BarakAllaahu feekum
What is the source to this ? Islamqa?
Source?
I think this is a compilation of the khateeb … there was a khutbah on zina earlier this year.
And Allaah knows best.