Re-having sexual relationship with your wifes sister.i would like to ask this question is it not allowed in islam to have sex with your wifes sister. and if your wifes sister is willing to have sex with you should you agree.
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re-having sexual relationship with your wifes sister.
i would like to ask this question is it not allowed in islam
to have sex with your wifes sister. and if your wifes sister is willing to have
sex with you should you agree.
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Answer:
Zina with Sister in
Law
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is no one (no idol, no person, no
grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 23 Surah
Muminoon verses 1-7:
1 The Believers must (eventually) win
through
2 Those who humble themselves in their
prayers;
3 (And those) Who avoid vain talk;
4 (And those) Who are active in deeds of
charity;
5 (And those) Who abstain from sex
6 Except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or (the captives) whom their right hands possess; for (in their
case) they are free from blame.
7 But those whose desires exceed those
limits, are transgressors
Islam has made it permissible only to conjugate with one’s
legally wedded wife or wives! To have a
sexual relationship with any other than one’s legal spouse is absolutely,
completely, and utterly prohibited in Islam! The act and sin of sex outside of the sacred
institution of marriage (zina) is so hated and so despised by Allah Subhanah,
that the prescribed punishment for ‘zina’ (adultery) in Shariah is to be stoned
to death; and if one does not seek sincere repentance for their heinous crime
of ‘zina’, their punishment for their heinous sin in the Hereafter will be much
much more severe and intolerable indeed!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 17 Surah
Israa verse 32:
Do not even go near ‘zina’ (fornication or
adultery) for it is a very indecent thing and a very evil way!
The sin of ‘zina’ is heinous enough alone, but to perform
this atrocious and monstrous act with the sister of one owns wife would be a
crime beyond compare! Such is the
sanctity of the blood-relations which Allah Subhanah has created for humankind,
that even though a sister-in-law is a non-mehram, it is absolutely prohibited
in Shariah for one to marry two sisters at one and the same time; and the main
wisdom behind this prohibition is the sanctity and harmony between the two
blood-sisters should never be disturbed!
One can only imagine the rift and ill-will which would be
created between one sister towards her own sister if the husband of one were to
have illegal sexual intercourse with the sister of one’s own wife! One should fear the chastisement of Allah
Subhanah and the severe accounting that awaits each individual in the Presence
of the Majestic Lord on that Inevitable Day of Judgment when every deed,
whether done openly or secretly, will be laid bare and the shame, humiliation
and disgrace such a deed would bring upon the guilty ones!
Your Question: and if your wifes sister is willing to have sex with you
should you agree.
Regardless of whether the wife’s sister is willing or
unwilling, regardless even if the wife herself approves or dis-approves,
regardless even of the approval of everyone in creation….Allah is our witness,
to have an illegal sexual intercourse with anyone other than one’s spouse is an
heinous enough crime by itself; but to have an illegal sexual relationship with
the sister of one’s own wife would be an abomination in its extreme in the
Sight of the Lord All-Mighty! And Allah
is our witness, His Anger, His Wrath, His Punishment, His Chastisement and His
Revenge which will descend upon the guilty ones will be unimaginable and
intolerable indeed!
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 2.504 Narrated by Abu Huraira
The Prophet (saws) said, "Seven
people will be shaded by Allah under His Shade on the Day when there will be no
shade except His. They are:
(1) a just ruler;
(2) a young man who has
been brought up in the worship of Allah, (i.e. he worships Allah Alone
sincerely from his childhood),
(3) a man whose heart is
attached to the mosque (who offers the five compulsory congregational prayers
in the mosque);
(4) two persons who love
each other only for Allah's sake and they meet and part in Allah's Cause only;
(5) a man who refuses the
call of a charming woman of noble birth for an illegal sexual intercourse with
her, and says to her: ‘I am afraid of Allah’;
(6) a person who
practices charity so secretly that his left hand does not know what his right
hand has given (i.e. nobody knows how much he has given in charity).
(7) a person who
remembers Allah in seclusion and his eyes get flooded with tears."
My dear and beloved brother in Islam, as much as the woman
might approach you for having illegal sexual intercourse with her, and as much
as you might desire her….if you could only bring yourself to refuse her
invitation for the sincere fear of Allah Subhanah your Lord, Allah is our
witness brother, Allah would honor and reward you with His Shade on the Day of
Judgment, a Day when there will be absolutely no other shade from the excruciating
heat of the sun, a Day the duration of which is 50,000 years, a Day whose
terror will make a child an aged old man, a Day when every man will seem to be
in a drunken state but they will not have consumed any intoxication…..!
My dear and beloved brother in Islam, if you refuse her
invitation only because you fear Allah, Allah is our witness brother, you cannot
imagine the unending rewards this small sacrifice of your desires will bring
upon you in the Presence of your Lord Most Supreme! If you can bring yourself to refuse her
invitation only because of the fear of Allah, Allah is our witness brother, you
might be amongst the most fortunate and honored people on that Inevitable and
Tumultuous Day of Resurrection!
My dear and beloved brother in Islam, if you study the
seven kinds of people who have been promised the Shade of Allah on the Day of
Judgment, you will realize that six of those seven kinds are those people who
would have to strive all their lives to fulfill the requirements….but it rarely
ever happens that a woman of noble birth invites one to have illegal sexual
relationship with her…..!!!
Blessed are those indeed who control their desires and
refuse her invitation for the fear of Allah Subhanah; and indeed unfortunate
are those who accept her invitation and bring upon themselves the Displeasure
of Allah Subhanah!
May Allah guide you to protect your chastity, and give you
the wisdom and the courage to make a decision which will almost guarantee you a
place in the Shade of Allah Subhanah, on a Day when there will be no shade
except His!
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan