ভূমিকা
A person, as a result of being overcome by lust and due to lack of faith, audaciously transgresses the womenfolk of other people. In this world, fornication reduces sustenance and shortens the life-span, while on the Day of Judgment, a fornicator shall suffer the wrath of Allah and an evil reckoning.
The murderers of prophets, such as Prophet Yahya (a.s), and the auliya of Allah, such as Imam Husain (a.s), were mostly illegitimate children - a consequence of the Satan's invitation to a male and female to commit this sin.
Prophet Isa (a.s) said to his disciples: “Prophet Musa (a.s) had advised his people: “Do not commit fornication”, (but) I advise you: “Do not even think of committing fornication””[^3] Five Fornicators and Five Rulings Five persons, who had committed fornication, were brought before Umar, who ordered them to be subjected to the legal punishment for the crime. At that moment the Commander of the Faithfuls (a.s) arrived and said: “O' Umar!
Allah's ruling in their case is not as you have ruled!” Umar requested: “You issue the ruling for them and implement the legal punishment.” The Imam (a.s) beheaded the first person, stoned the second, subjected the third to the full punishment of eighty lashes, the fourth to half the punishment and ordered the discretionary punishment for the fifth! Umar was amazed and the people astounded over the Imam's (a.s) ruling. Umar asked him: “O' Abul Hasan!
Five persons were involved in one crime and you have issued different rulings for all of them?” the Commander of the Faithfuls(a.s) explained: “The first person was a dhimmi,[^4]) who had transgressed (the honour of) a Muslim woman and so had fallen out of the dhimmah[^5]) - as such, his punishment could only be death. The second person who had committed fornication possessed a spouse and so I had him stoned.