According to Encyclopedia Britannica a majority of Americans...

According to Encyclopedia Britannica a majority of Americans contract venereal diseases. America has hundreds of special hospitals for patients with venereal diseases. The book “Qawānīne Jinsi” says that every year thirty-four thousand new born children die of hereditary diseases. The deaths caused by these diseases are more than the deaths due to any other cause (except tuberculosis). The ‘Kahyan Daily’ (no.5356) has mentioned, “Dr.

Maulin Norjoe who practices in North London, writes in his article that every year 50000 abortions of illicit children are carried out in London. One child out of every twenty newborns is illegitimate.” The daily ‘Ittelat’(no.1414) writes that in 1957 America had illegitimate children numbering 201700. There has been a five fold increase in the next twenty years. This year, unmarried pregnant women numbered 24000.

It is astonishing and pathetic that a majority of them are less than eighteen years of age. In Paris, of the total of 43515 new born children, 4145 are illegitimate. In the Soviet Union, every year 17000 illegitimate children are born. The Evil Effects of Adultery in this World and the Hereafter Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (a.s.) says: “Fornication has six types of effects. Three are for this world and Three for the Hereafter.

The Three evils which become evident in this world are: The face of the adulterer loses countenance. He falls into depravity and destitution. His death draws near. And the Three punishments for Hereafter are: (1) He is liable for Divine anger. (2) His reckoning is severe.

(3) He abides forever in Hell.” Fornicator in the Barzakh The fifth Imam (a.s.) has also said, “Whoever commits Fornication with a Muslim, Jew, Christian or Magian woman, whether she is a slave or a free woman; and dies without repenting of his sin, then the Almighty Allah opens Three hundred doors of punishment in his grave.

From each door many snakes, scorpions and pythons emerge from the fire and burn and torment him till the Day of Qiyāma.” Fornicator on the Day of Judgement Imam Muhammad Baqir (a.s.) describes the fornicator in detail and says that when he would be raised from his grave on the day of judgement he shall be in a horrible state. The Imam says, “When a fornicator will rise from his grave the stink of his body shall hurt the people. The people will know what deeds he had committed in the world.