some guidence

[FatB]

asalama calaycum brothers and sisters

 

the day before last i was having a religous conversation with a friend (who is a babtist)and he asked me, "why is it forbiden for {yous} to socialise with females?" as i tryed to expalain it i ended up confussing him and myself to an extent :confused:

 

so, could some one tell me consisivly why such ackts are prohibited??

[ADNAAN]

You have raised a good point to discus because not many of our ppl know the guide lines of Islam regarding the issue of mingling with woman.

There is a verse in the quran that prohibits zina “adultery†or anything that leads to it (walaa taqrabu a zinaa inahuu kaana faaxashatan wa saa’ sabiilaa) and this issue is a classical example of social attitudes that pave away for such sins to be committed.

I don’t know if you have noticed or not but when you ask some ppl about this issue they say “this is how the civilised ppl does it†but truly what they are missing and thus looking for is satisfaction from their dull lives and impotent ideologies that won’t provide them with any lasting solutions.

 

In order to justify the above verse and my explanation, all you have to do is to reflect on your emotions and those of the opposite sex while in any encounters (I mean long periods of association such as class rooms class rooms or work places) that you had with them. In my humble experience I have witnessed it many times and to be honest a significant proportion of females do give the sheydan a hand by the means of flirting and arousing ones feelings and of course the same applies to men. All of this constitutes in a way or another to the sheydan’s efforts to deviate the Muslims from their right path and with out a doubt the best option is to back off as I did. Another precaution is marriage.

 

I hope to have contributed positively.

 

 

*some one correct me if anything is wrong especially the aayah*

By no means am claiming to be a good muslim.

[Caveman]

I would only suggest that you tell your (babtist) friend to read Islam and

Reflect on particular Ayah/Hadith concerning subject at hand.

 

Furthermore, Islam has very strict rules against adultery and fornication, and introduces many cautious measures to ensure the prevention and avoidance of such sins. One measure is the prescription that men and women should avoid intermingling as far as possible {check Qur'an verse 33:53}. This is why men and women pray in separate areas or separate rows in the mosque.

 

Another measure is that men and women should cover the specified areas of their bodies the sight of which arouse sexual desire in others {check Qur'an verses 7:26; 33:59}. Yet another measure is that men and women should lower or turn their gaze away from looking at a person of the opposite sex {check Qur'an verse 24:31}. These instruction from Allah(sw) is only some aspect of a wider context of purity of action for men and women; which is

beneficial to greater good of all mankind.