Adultery Rules in Islam

1. prepared by: bro. a. erandio

3. ZINA IS A SHAMEFUL ACTS
Islam consider Zina not only as a
great sin but also as an act open the
gate for many other shameful acts,
which destroy the very basis of the
family,
which leads to quarrels and murders,
which ruins reputations and property
and which spreads numerous
disease, both physical and spiritual.

4. Al-Isra 17:32 Allah (swt) the Most
High says Do not come near
Zina, for it is a shameful deed
and an evil path.

5. Al-Furqan 25: 68-70 (The servants of the
Most Merciful are, among others)
those who do not call upon any other
god besides Allah
nor kill any person whom Allah has
prohibited (killing) except in (the
course of) justice,
nor commit fornication (or adultery)
- and whoever does this shall receive
the punishment.

7. Abdullah bin Masud reported: I
asked the Prophet (sas) “O
Allah’s Apostle which is the
biggest sin? He replied:
to set up rivals with Allah (swt)
by worshiping others though he
alone has created you.”

8. “I asked: “what is next? He
said: to commit illegal sexual
intercourse with wife of your
neighbor. (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Kitab Al-Hudud)

9. The Prophet (sas) said: The
dwellers of Hell will have the
punishment of smelling the
most pungent smell
emanating from the private
parts of an adulterer.

10. EIGHTY DOORS OF HELL
He is further reported to have
said: that if a person commits
adultery, Allah (swt) will open for
him in his grave 80 [eighty] doors
of Hell from which will emerge
scorpions and snakes to trouble
him until the day of resurrection.
(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Kitab Al-Hudud)

11. • Islam abhors adultery and for
that end enjoins upon Muslim to
keep away from all those
satanic things which lead a man
to adultery.
• Prophet Muhammad (sas) said:
“Even to look at an unknown
woman (with a passionate look)
is also a sin.

12. Qur’an 25:69 The punishment will be
doubled for him on the Day of
Resurrection and he will abide therein
in disgraced;
EXCEPT THOSE WHO REPENT
Qur’an 25:70 Except those who repent
and believe (in Islamic Monotheism)
and do righteous deeds; for those,
Allah will change their sins into good
deeds, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.

13. Al-Nur 24:2 The male and female who
commit fornication - flog each one of
them with one hundred lashes,
and do not let compassion for the two
of them keep you from (complying
with) Allah’s religion, if you believe in
Allah and the last day.
And let a group of believers witness
their punishment.

14. • If a person was ever married before
committing the crime of Zina, he or
she is to be punished by stoning to
death.
• This is established by the practice
of the Prophet (sas).
• If they are not punished in this world
and die without repentance, they
will be punished in the fire with
whips of fire.

15. “ZINA” REFERS TO BOTH
FORNICATION”
• In Arabic, the single word “Zina”
refers to both fornication (illicit
sexual relations between two
unmarried people) and adultery
(the same between married
partners).

16. FOUR WITNESSES OR SELF
CONFESSION
Such a severe punishment may
be only after four sane adult
male eye-witnesses solemnly
testify that they have seen the
actual act of intercourse, an
extremely rare if not impossible
situation, or after self confession
by either of the two parties
involved.

17. WHILE COMMITTING ZINA, STEALING, DRINK WINE
AND CHEATING IS NOT A BELIEVER
• Abu Hurairah (raa) reported Allah’s
Messenger (sas) as saying: A Zina
(fornicator or adulterer). While
committing Zina, is a not believer
• thief, while stealing, is not a believer,
• when one drinks wine, he is not a
believer,
• and one of you cheating he is not a
believer, Therefore, beware, beware!”
(Bukhari & Muslim)

18. • The Prophet (saws) said: “When a
servant of Allah engages in Zina, his
faith leaves him; for it (his faith) is like
a covering above his head, and when he
leaves off (committing Zina), faith
returns to him.” (Tirmidhi and Abu Dawood)
• The Pro. (sas) also said: “When
someone commits Zina or drinks wine,
Allah removes his faith from him, just
as a person takes his shirt off over his
head.”

19. • And he (sas) said: “On the day of
resurrection, Allah (swt) will not
speak nor look at them nor purify
three (types of) people:
1 An old man who commits Zina,
2 A lying king,
3 And a Vainglorious poor people.
There will be a grievous
punishment for those.” (S. Al-Bukhari)

20. A DREAM OF A PROPHET
• In a tradition transmitted by
Bukhari, on the authority of
Samura Ibn Jundab (raa),
concerning a dream of the
Prophet’s in which the Prophet
(saw) accompanied the
Archangels Gabriel and Michael,
the Prophet (saws) said:

21. ‘We went on and arrived near a pit
which was like an oven, out of which
we could hear cries.
We glanced into it and saw naked men
and women, who cried out when the
flames reached them from below.
I asked: “Who are these, O Gabriel?
he replied, Males and females who
have committed fornication” (S. Bukhari)

22. THE HELL IT HAS SEVEN GATES
• Al-Hijr 15: 44 It has seven gates; to
each of these gates, a class (of
sinners) is assigned”
THE MOST SEVERE OF THIS GATE
• “The most severe of these gates
in terms of heat, pain sorrow,
and stinking air is the gate for
the doers of fornication, who did
it (even) after knowing the
awfulness of it.”

23. SATAN SENDS HIS TROOPS
ACROSS THE EARTH
The Prophet (saws) said: “Satan
send his troops across the earth with
a promise that the one who most
misleads a believer will be
crowned with a crown, for the
greatest mischief makers among
them are the dearest to him. Then
one of them comes back to him and
says:

24. SATAN SENDS HIS TROOPS
ACROSS THE EARTH
1, “I did not leave such- and- such
until he divorced his wife”. Satan
says: “you did nothing: he will
marry another!’

25. SATAN SENDS HIS TROOPS
ACROSS THE EARTH
2, Another one approaches him
and says: “I did not leave such-
and-such until he and his brother
became enemies”. Satan says:
“You did nothing: they will be
reconciled!”

26. SATAN SENDS HIS TROOPS
ACROSS THE EARTH
3, Then another one comes to
him and says: “I did not leave
such- and such- until he
committed Zina.” Satan says:
Well done!’ Then he seats him by
his side and crowns him.”

27. The Prophet (sas) said: “O company of
Muslims, fear Zina, because it has six
consequences, three in this world and three
on the last day.
IN THIS WORLD:
1, the light of his face goes away,
2, his life is shortened,
3, and he suffers poverty.
ON THE LAST DAY:
1, Allah (swt) the Most High will be angry
with him,
2, his accounting will be severe,
3, and he will be punished in the fire.

28. The Prophet (sas) said: “If
someone commits Zina with a
woman who is married, in the
grave there will be punishment
on him and on her equal to half
the punishment of this Ummah.

29. THE CUCKOLD
“And a cuckold is a person who knows
about his wife’s adultery but says nothing
and has no jealousy.”
WILL COUNT IT AS A GOOD DEED FOR HER
HUSBAND
On the Day of resurrection, Allah (swt) the
Most High will count it as a good deed for
her husband, in case it was done without
his knowledge,
while if he knew it and said nothing, Allah
(swt) will forbid him the Garden. Truly, Allah
(swt) the Most High has written on the gate
of the Garden: (Al-Kaba’r)

30. THREE TYPES OF PEOPLE WILL NOT
ENTER THE GARDEN
Abdullah bin Umar (r a a ) reported
Allah’s Messenger (s a s) as saying:
Three types of people will not enter
the garden:
1, the one who is undutiful to his
parents;
2, the Cuckold;
3, and the masculinize woman.

31. HIS PRIVATE PARTS WILL SPEAK AGAINST
HIM
•If he kissed her, his lips will
be cut in the fire,
•and if he had sexual
intercourse with her, his
private parts will speak
against him on the Day of
judgement, saying : I did what
was forbidden.

32. HIS HAND TIED TO HIS NECK
The Prophet (saws) also said:
“The man who has laid hand with
lust on a woman who is not
permissible to him will come on
the Day of judgement with his
hand tied on his neck.

33. ALLAH (SWT) LOOKS AT HIM WITH
ANGER
Allah (swt) most high will look at him
with anger, and the flesh on his face
will sag (Lumuyloy) and he will look
haggard (hapis, pagod) and old. He
will say: ‘What did I do?’
His tongue will witness against him,
saying, I said what was forbidden:’
His hand will speak and say, ‘We
reached for what was forbidden;

34. HIS TONGUE WILL WITNESS
AGAINST HIM
saying, I said what was
forbidden:’
His hand will speak and say,
‘We reached for what was
forbidden;

35. Each of his eyes will speak and
say, ‘I saw what was forbidden’
Each of his feet will speak and
say, I went to a forbidden place;
And his private parts will say, I
did it;

36. And one guardian angel will say, I
heard it,
and the other guardian angel will
say, I wrote it,
and Allah (swt) the Most High will
say, I knew it but I concealed it.
Then He will say: My angels take
him and give him a taste of My
punishment.

37. THE MOST HEINOUS TYPE OF ZINA
The most heinous type of Zina is
incest with one’s mother or sister
or daughter or step-mother, or
with any of the permanently
prohibited relatives (Muharim).

38. THEIR BODY, BEAR WITNESS
AGAINST THEM
• Al-Nur 24: 24 “On the day when their
tongues and their hands and
their feet will bear witness
against them concerning what
they used to do”

39. A MAN WHO HAD MARRIED HIS OWN
FATHER’S WIFE
• “Bara (raa) reported that the
Prophet (sas) sent his uncle to a
man who had married his own
father’s wife, ordering the uncle
to kill that man and confiscate
his property.

40. HOMOSEXUALITY (SODOMY)
• In more than one place in His Majestic
Book, Allah the Most High has related the
story of the people of Lut (Lot). (as)
Concerning their destruction,
• Hud 11:82-83 He (Allah) says: Then when
Our command came to pass, We turned it
(their city) upside- down and rained upon
it stones of baked clay, heaped layer upon
layer, marked by your Lord. And they (the
stones of punishment) are never far from
the wrong-doers!

41. ALLAH’S PUNISHMENT IS NOT
FAR OFF
The last warning is for the
Muslim Ummah: if they indulge
in the practice of
homosexuality, Allah’s
punishment is not far off.

42. ALLAH (SWT) HAS CURSED ANYONE
WHO DOES WHAT LUT’S PEOPLE DID
The Prophet (sas) cursed
homosexuals by repeating
three times: “Allah has cursed
anyone who does what Lut’s
people did.”

43. IF YOU FIND ANY PERSONS
ENGAGED IN HOMOSEXUALITY
The Prophet (sas) said; “If you
find any persons engaged in
homosexuality, kill both the
active and the passive partner.”

44. THROW IT IN THE TALLEST BUILDING
Ibn Abbas said: “Find the tallest building
in the town and throw the
homosexual down from its roof, and
then stone him to death. (S. Al-Bukhari)
SUMIPING SA KAPWA LALAKI
Leviticos 20:9-21- Kung may lalaking
sumiping sa kapwa lalaki gaya ng
pagsiping sa babae, nakagawa silang
dalawa ng kasuklam-suklam na
bagay; papatayin sila at sila ang
mananagot sa kanilang kamatayan.

45. THEY WERE AN EVIL PEOPLE
Al-Anbiya 21:74 And (remember) Lot, We
gave him Hukman (right judgement of
the affairs and Prophethood) and
(religious) knowledge, and We saved
him from the town who practised Al-
Khabâ'ith (evil, wicked and filthy
deeds, etc.).
Verily, they were a people given to evil,
and were Fâsiqûn (rebellious,
disobedient, to Allâh).

46. NOT COVERING THE PRIVATE PARTS
Ibn Abbas (raa) describes several traits
related to what the people of Lut
used to do.
SOME OF THESE ARE:
* Not covering the private parts in
front of people of the same sex,
* whistling with the fingers,
* opening the shirt to show the chest,
* wearing long trousers which drag on
the floor,
* and homosexual sex- that is sodomy
(or lesbianism).

47. FOUR TYPES OF PEOPLE AWAKE UNDER
ALLAH’S ANGER AND GO TO BED UNDER
HIS DISPLEASURE
“Abu Hurairah (raa) reported Allah’s
Messenger (saws) as saying: “four
types of people awake under
Allah’s anger and go to bed under
his displeasure.” Those who were
listening asked: “Who are they,
Messenger of Allah? “He replied:

48. FOUR TYPES OF PEOPLE AWAKE UNDER
ALLAH’S ANGER AND GO TO BED UNDER
HIS DISPLEASURE
Who are they, Messenger of
Allah? He replied:
1- Men who imitate woman,
2- Woman who imitate men,
3- Those that have sex with
animals,
4-and men who have sex with
men.

49. It is said that when a man mounts a
man, the Divine Throne shakes out of
fear of Allah’s Wrath and the Heavens
tremble.
The angels start reciting, “Say: He is
Allah, the One; Allah, the Self-Sufficient.
He does not beget nor He is begotten,
and there is none like Him” (Al Ikhlas
112: 1-4) until his wrath subsides.

50. ALLAH (SWT) WILL NOT LOOK ON THE DAY OF
RESURRECTION
Among those at whom Allah (swt) will
not look on the day of resurrection, and
to whom He will say, “Enter the fire
along with those who enter, “the
Prophet (saws) counted the following:
1- The active and passive partners in
homosexuality;
2- The one who has sex with animals,
3- The one who is married to a woman and
her daughter at the same time;
4- And the one who masturbates regularly,
unless they repent and reform.

51. THE ABOMINATIONS OF LUT’S PEOPLE
The following are also listed among the
abominations of Lut’s people:
1-playing backgammon,
2-racing pigeons,
3-holding fights with dogs,
4-rams or roosters,
5-entering bathhouses naked;
6-and cheating with regards to weight and
measures.
IF A HOMOSEXUAL DIES
Ibn Abbas (raa) said: “If a homosexual dies
without repentance, he is changed into a
pig in his grave.”

52. ALLAH (SWT) WILL NOT LOOK AT THEM
The Prophet (sas) said: “Allah
(swt) will not look at a man who
has intercourse with a man or
with a woman in anus.”

53. ZINA OF THE EYE, TONGUE, HAND
FOOT AND THE EAR
A lustful look toward a woman or a
boy is Zina, as the Prophet (saws) has
said:
* The Zina of the eye is the look;
* The Zina of the tongue is the
speech:
* The Zina of the hand is grasping;
* The Zina of the foot is walking,
* And the Zina of the ear is listening.

54. SPECIAL PRECAUTIONS AGAINST
MIXING SOCIALLY WITH HANDSOME
BOYS
Some scholars go to the extent of
prohibiting a man to be alone with
young boy in a house or bathhouse,
on the analogy of the prohibition of
being in privacy with a strange (non-
Mahram) women.
The Prophet (saws) said: When a man is
in privacy with a woman, Satan joins
them as the third.

55. Now, if there is a beardless youth
who is more beautiful than a woman,
the temptation from him in privacy
may be greater than a woman’s, as
the evil of homosexuality is definitely
much greater than the evil of Zina
with a woman.

56. FIFTEEN SATANS PRESENT
• Sufyan Thawri once entered a
bathhouse and then a handsome boy
came in, Sufyan called out:
• “Please take him away from me, for
if there is one Satan present when
one is in privacy with a woman,
there are fifteen Satan's present
when one is in privacy with a
beautiful boy.” (Al-Kaba’r)

57. A MAN WHO INVITED OTHER MEN TO HAVE
ANAL SEX WITH HIM
• Khalid Bin Walid (raa) once wrote to
Abu Bakr (raa) that in a certain place
there was a man who invited other
men to have anal sex with him.
• Abu Bakr (raa) consulted with
companions of the Prophet (saws)
about this.

58. • Ali Ibn Abi Talib (raa) said: “this is
that sin which none but the people of
Lut have done, and Allah the Most
High has informed us about how He
punished them.”
• In my opinion, he should be killed.
“So Abu Bakr (raa) wrote to Khalid,
and Khalid killed him.”

59. JESUS SAW A MAN BEING BURNED BY FIRE
It is reported that on one of his journeys,
Jesus saw a man being burned by fire.
He took some water to throw at him, but
then the fire turned into a boy and the man
turned into fire.
Jesus was surprised by this and said:
“Lord, return them to the condition they
were in this world so that I may ask them
about their situation”.
“Thereupon Allah (swt) revived them and
they were a man and a boy.

60. Jesus asked them: “What is the situation
with you? “The man replied:
“O Spirit from Allah, while I was alive, I
was passionately in love with this boy
and used to have homosexual relations
with him”.
When I died and the boy died, he became
fire, which burns me, then I take a turn,
and become fire and burn him.
Thus, we alternate, and this is our
punishment until the day of resurrection.
(Al-Kaba’r)

61. HAVING ANAL INTERCOURSE WITH
ONE’S WIFE
• Having anal intercourse with one’s wife
is a kind of sodomy and it is prohibited
by Allah (swt) and His Messenger (sas).
• Quran 2:223 Your wives are tillage for you,
so go in to your tillage as you will, and
send ahead (something good) for your
souls.
WHETHER IT IS FROM THE FRONT OR THE REAR
• That is to say, whether it is from the
front or the rear (is not important,) as
long as intercourse takes place in the
vagina, which constitutes the “tillage.”

62. THE JEW’S CONTRADICT
The Jews of the Prophet’s time
used to say, “If a man has
intercourse with his wife through
the vagina but being on her back,
the child, if conceived, will have
a squint (duling o banlag).

63. FROM THE FRONT OR THE BACK (IS NOT
IMPORTANT)
“The companions asked the Prophet (sas)
concerning this, whereupon Allah (swt)
revealed this verse contradicting them (the
Jews).
The Prophet (saws) told his companions:
“From the front or the back (is not
important,) but avoid the anus and
intercourse during menstruation.
“He mentioned a single receptacle, meaning
the vagina, and that is the tillage. Because
the seed of the child is planted in it, while
the anus is a place of excrement and that is
unclean filth.

64. MENSTRUATING OR IN HER ANUS,
IS AN ADHA
• Qur’an 2:222 They ask you concerning
menstruation. Say, that is an Adha (a harmful
thing for a husband to have a sexual
intercourse with his wife while she is having
her menses), therefore keep away from
women during menses and go not unto them
till they’re purified (from menses and have
taken a bath).
• And when they have purified themselves,
then go in unto them as Allah has ordained
for you (go in unto them in any manner as
long as it is in their vagina).

65. Abu Hurairah (raa) also reported:
Allah’s Messenger (saw) as
saying: “Anyone who has
intercourse with a woman who is
menstruating or in her anus, or
who goes to a soothsayer, has
rejected what had been revealed
to Muhammad (sas) “ (Tirmidhi).

66. “PURITY OF SEX”
Islam commands purity of sex life
both for men and women, at all times
of their lives. Therefore, punishment
for Zina is carried out openly so that it
may be a different for other in the
society.

67. THE SHARIAH DOES NOT FAVOR
ANY PERSON
The Shariah does not favor any
person whether a King or a Slave,
Rich or Poor, Black or White.
Once Zina is proved against him
beyond any doubt, punishment will be
applied to him regardless of his
station in life.

68. PUNISHMENT GIVEN TO UBAID ALA,
ALIAS ABI SHAMHA
• The second son of Caliph Umar
(raa) One day he passed by the
house of the Jew, Drank wine and
got intoxicated.
• He saw a sleeping woman and
committed Zina with her.

69. • She became pregnant, when she got
a son, she came to the prophet’s
Mosque and placed the child in
Caliph’s Umar’s lap (raa) and saying:
• ‘O commander of the faithful, take
this child as you have greater right
over him than myself.
• Then the Jew’s woman explains that
it was the child of Abi Shamhah.

70. “Caliph Umar (raa) asked her
whether it was legitimate”
The lady replied: from my side,
it is legitimate but from his
side it is illegitimate, then she
told the whole story.

71. “CALIPH UMAR (RAA) HE FELT VERY
MUCH ASHAMED OF IT”
• The Caliph Umar (raa) went home
and confirmed from his son Abi
Shamhah that he had committed the
crime although he felt very much
ashamed of it.
• The Caliph caught him by his collar
to take him to the Mosque of the
Prophet (sas); Abi Shamhah asked
him where he was taking him.

72. • The Caliph replied that he was
taking him to the companions
of the Prophet in the Mosque so
that it may take from you the
right of Allah (swt) in this world
before it is taken from you in
the next world.

73. • “Shamhah requested the Caliph” To
take the right of Allah (swt) from
him then and there so that he may
not be put to disgrace in the
presence of the companions of the
Prophet.
• “Caliph Umar (raa) replied” “O son
you have already disgraced yourself
and your father.
• We must go in their presence. Umar
(raa) ordered Maflah to give him
stripes.

74. • When he was given 70 (seventy
stripes) Abi Shamhah appealed to
the companions of the Prophet to
intervene.
• “The companions requested Umar
(raa) to stop”
• Umar replied: “O companions of
the Prophet, have you not read in
the Qur’an Allah (swt) says: Do
not show mercy over them.

75. • He was given 100 (one hundred
stripes)
• As a result of which Abi Shamhah
died.
• Then Caliph Umar (raa) took him to
his house, gave him a bath and buried
him. (Al-Kaba’r)
• NOTE: It should be noted here that
most of the punishment carried out
by the Prophet (sas) and the four
Rashidun Caliphs were based on
confession and not the proof.

76. ZINA THE GATE OF SHAMEFUL ACTS
• Islam consider Zina not only as a great
sin but also as an act which opens the
gate for many other shameful acts;
• which destroy the very basis of the
family,
• which leads to quarrels and murders,
• which ruins reputation and property
• and which spreads numerous disease,
both physical and spiritual.

77. ZINA THE GATE OF SHAMEFUL ACTS
Qur’an:17: 32 And come not near to
unlawful sex, Verily, it is a
Fahisha (i.e. anything that
transgresses its limits: a great
sin), and an evil way (that leads
one to Hell unless Allah (swt)
forgives him).

78. Abdullah Bin Masud (raa) reported: I
asked the Prophet (saws) O Allah’s
Apostle which is the biggest sin? He
replied:
To set up rivals with Allah (swt) by
worshiping others though He alone has
created you” I asked:’ what is next? He
said:
To kill the child lest it should share your
food. “I asked:’ what is next? He said:
To commit illegal sexual intercourse
with the wife of your neighbor.

79. PUNISHMENT OF ZINA, SHOULD BE
FOUR WITNESSES
• Qur’an: 4: 15 And those of your
women who commit illegal sexual
intercourse take the evidence of
four witnesses from amongst you
against them, and if they testify,
confine them to house until death
comes to them or Allah (swt)
ordains for them some (other) way.

80. HUNDRED STRIPES
• Holy Qur’an: 24:2 The fornicatress and
the fornicator, flog each of them with
a hundred stripes.
BE EXILED FOR ONE YEAR
• Narrated Abu Huraira (raa) Allah’s
Messenger (sas) judged that the
unmarried person who was guilty of
illegal sexual intercourse be exiled for
one year and receive the legal
punishment (i.e. be flogged with one
hundred stripes). (S. Al- Bukhari vol.8
H.no.819)