Friday, March 18, 2011

He committed adultery and his conscience is troubling him, and he wants to get rid of the foetus

He committed adultery and his conscience is troubling him, and he wants to get rid of the foetus
I a Moslem single person, who lives in the USA. I committed adultery many times with the same woman. Now, the women is pregnant. I would like to know if I can marry her in order to solve the problem (I mean cover the scandal)so the baby will find a father and gets the name. Actually, unfortunately, I would prefer abortion and I wish to convince her to do that, but don't know if this is considered killing a person. If so, I would feel guilty because of that. I believe the embryo is about 6-8 weeks. Please I need your help as soon as possible, Jazak Allah Khair.

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And important note that we want to discuss and share with you its is about reading Quran and Reciting Holy Quran to understand it, Ramadan is the month when the beautiful the Holy Quran has been revealed.  A miracle by the creator of the worlds, Allah (SWT)  Should we not glorify him by reading the gift he has sent down for us and learn Arabic Quran by heart  to feel the power of it and learn is with translation to understand it and let our heart fill will tears of glory and wash away our sins  “Will they not meditate on the Quran, or are there locks on the hearts”, read Holy Quran, Surah Muhammad, Verse 24.

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Praise be to
Allaah.

Firstly, my brother in Islam, I offer
you my condolences for the faith that you lost during the times when
you were committing adultery. For the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “When an adulterer
commits illegal sexual intercourse, then he is not a believer at the
time he is doing it, and when a drinker of an alcoholic liquor drinks
it, then he is not a believer at the time of drinking it, and when a
thief steals, then he is not a believer at the time of stealing, and
when a robber robs, and the people look at him, then he is not a believer
at the time of doing robbery.” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari,
no. 2475) 

Have you not read what your Lord says in His
Book? 

“And come not near to unlawful sex.
Verily, it is a Faahishah (i.e. anything that transgresses its limits:
a great sin, and an evil way that leads one to Hell unless Allaah forgives
him)”

[al-Israa’ 17:32 – interpretation of the meaning] 

Do you not know that Allaah sees you wherever
you are, and He hears you when you speak? 

Do you not remember the great blessings that
Allaah has bestowed upon you? For He is the One Who heals you when you
are sick, the One Who feeds you when you are hungry and gives you to
drink when you are thirsty. And He has given you the greatest blessing
that He has bestowed upon mankind, the blessing of Islam. “Is there
any reward for good – other than good?” [al-Rahmaan 55:60 – interpretation
of the meaning] 

My brother, ask yourself, Whose dominion do you live
under? Whose provision do you eat from? By Whose command do you live?
Is it not the dominion of Allaah, the provision of Allaah, the command
of Allaah? So how can you disobey Allaah? 

Perhaps you have forgotten the hadeeth
of the Mi’raaj, in which the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said:

“… then we proceeded and came to something like a tannoor
(a kind of oven).” [The narrator] said: “I think he said, ‘in which
there were clamouring voices.’” He [the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)] said: “We looked into it
and there we saw naked men and women. Flames were coming to them from
the bottom of it, and when the flames reached them, they made an uproar.
I said to them [i.e., the two angels who were accompanying him], ‘Who
are these?’ They said, ‘Proceed, proceed!’… I said to them, ‘I have
seen strange things this night. What is this that I have seen?’ They
said, ‘We will tell you…. The naked men and women in the structure that
resembled a tannoor oven are the adulterers and adulteresses.’”

(Narrated by al-Bukhaari in Baab Ithm al-Zunaat,
no. 7047). 

So you must hasten to repent sincerely before
death overtakes you, for the gate of repentance is open until the sun
rises from the west or before the soul reaches the throat [at death].
Allaah rejoices over the repentance of His slave, and He will change
his bad deeds (sayi’aat) into good deeds (hasanaat). Allaah
says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“And those who invoke not any other
ilaah (god) along with Allaah, nor kill such person as Allaah has forbidden,
except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse
and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.

The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection,
and he will abide therein in disgrace;

Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism),
and do righteous deeds; for those, Allaah will change their sins into
good deeds, and Allaah is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful.

And whosoever repents and does righteous good deeds;
then verily, he repents towards Allaah with true repentance[al-Furqaan
25:68-71] 

Secondly, with regard to your question, “Do
I have to marry her?”, this is the issue of the adulterer marrying the
woman with whom he committed adultery. The answer is that it is not
permissible for him (the adulterer) to marry her, or for her to marry
him, until the label of adultery no longer applies to them. That label
can only be removed through repentance. 

It is not permissible for you to marry her
even if she is Jewish or Christian, because she is a zaaniyah
(adulteress). Even if she is Muslim, it is not permissible for you to
marry her because she is a zaaniyah.  And it is not permissible
for her to accept you as a husband because you are a zaani (adulterer).
Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): 

“The adulterer — fornicator marries not but an adulteress
— fornicatress or a Mushrikah; and the adulteress –fornicatress, none
marries her except an adulterer — fornicator or a Mushrik [and that
means that the man who agrees to marry (have a sexual relation with)
a Mushrikah (female polytheist, pagan or idolatress) or a prostitute,
then surely, he is either an adulterer — fornicator, or a Mushrik (polytheist,
pagan or idolater). And the woman who agrees to marry (have a sexual
relation with) a Mushrik (polytheist, pagan or idolater) or an adulterer
— fornicator, then she is either a prostitute or a Mushrikah (female
polytheist, pagan, or idolatress)]. Such a thing is forbidden to the
believers (of Islamic Monotheism)”[al-Noor 24:3] 

The phrase “Such a thing is forbidden to
the believers” indicates that this marriage is forbidden. 

“It is essential that both of you repent to
Allaah, give up this sin, regret the evil actions that have occurred
in the past, resolve not to return to them, and do many righteous deeds,
so that Allaah may accept your repentance and turn your bad deeds (sayi’aat)
into good deeds (hasanaat). Allaah says (interpretation of the
meaning): 

‘And those who invoke not any other
ilaah (god) along with Allaah, nor kill such person as Allaah has forbidden,
except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse
and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.

The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection,
and he will abide therein in disgrace;

Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism),
and do righteous deeds; for those, Allaah will change their sins into
good deeds, and Allaah is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful.

And whosoever repents and does righteous good deeds;
then verily, he repents towards Allaah with true repentance’

[al-Furqaan 25:68-71] 

If you want to marry her, you have to be sure that
she is not pregnant by waiting to see if she menstruates before you
do so. If it becomes apparent that she is pregnant, it is not permissible
for you to marry her until after she delivers the baby, in accordance
with the hadeeth of the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), in which he forbade a man
to use his water to irrigate the crops of another.” 

(Fatwas of the Standing Committee in al-Buhooth
al-Islamiyyah magazine, vol. 9, p. 72) 

Thirdly, you say, “so the baby will find a father
and gets the name” This is the matter of attributing the child of adultery:
who is he to be named after? 

The answer is that the majority of scholars said
that the child of adultery should not be named after the adulterer,
because the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The child goes to the owner
of the bed and the adulterer gets nothing but the stones (despair, i.e.,
to be stoned to death).” (Agreed upon. Al-Bukhaari 2053; Muslim, 1457.
Al-Mughni by Ibn Qudaamah, vol. 7, p. 129) 

Fourthly, you say, that you would prefer the
woman to get rid of the baby. This is the issue of abortion, and the
ruling on that is as stated in the report of the Committee of Senior
Scholars (Hay’at Kibaar al-‘Ulamaa’), no. 140, dated 20/6/1407
AH, which is as follows: 

“1 – It is not permissible to abort the pregnancy
at any of its various stages except for a legitimate shar’i reason,
and within very narrow limits.

2 – If the pregnancy is in the first stage, which is
forty days, and aborting it will serve a legitimate shar’i interest
or ward off some harm, then it is permissible to abort it. But aborting
it at this stage for fear of difficulty in bringing up children or in
providing for them or teaching them, or fear for their future, or because
the couple feel that they have enough children – this is not permitted.

3 – It is not permissible to abort the pregnancy once
it has become an ‘alaqah (clot) or mudghah (chewed lump of flesh) [i.e.,
after 40 days’ gestation] unless a trustworthy medical committee has
stated that allowing the pregnancy to continue poses a danger to the
health of the mother, such that there is the fear that she will die
if the pregnancy continues. In this case it is permissible to abort
the pregnancy, after exhausting all other means of trying to ward off
that danger. 

After the third stage, and after the completion
of four months of pregnancy, it is not permissible for you to abort
the pregnancy unless a group of trustworthy specialist doctors decide
that leaving the foetus in his mother’s womb will lead to the death
of the mother; this is after exhausting all possible means of keeping
the foetus alive. Performing an abortion subject to these conditions
is permitted in order to ward off the greater of the two harms, and
to preserve the greater of the two interests.” 

(Quoted from al-Fataawa al-Jaami’ah,
vol. 3, p. 1055) 

We ask Allaah to keep us safe and sound and to accept
our repentance. May Allaah bless our prophet Muhammad.

Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid

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