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148 clear, because as far as the sin is not manifested and is not reported to the Islamic court, Allah, Who veils vices, does not will to unveil what is secret. But after that the wrong action is proved, and its secret is uncovered, society is defiled and the sin decreases in importance, so punishment must be executed in a way that the negative effects of the sin may be deactivated and the magnitude of the sin can be reestablished.

Essentially, in a sound society, violation of law must be counted important. Surely if that violation is repeated, that importance will be broken. Its importance will be reset only through publicly punishing the offenders. Moreover, we must pay attention to the fact that for many of people honour is more important than the issue of bodily punishment. This very publicizing of punishment suppresses their ungovernable low desires.

Some Narrations on Evils of Fornication Some evils and harm of fornication are mentioned in one of the speeches of Imam Rida (a.s.), including the followings: Committing murder by abortion Violation of structure of family and relationship Abandonment of training issues Ruin of criteria of heritage[^1] In the opinion of Ali (a.s.), abandonment of fornication buttresses family (to be protected) and desertion of sodomy protects generation.[^2] The holy Prophet (p.b.u.h.) says: "Fornication enjoys harms both in this world and the other world.

In this world, there are ruins of man's luminosity and beauty, untimely death, and termination of the portion of sustenance. And in the other [^1] Bihar, Vol. 79, p.

24 [^2] Nahj ul-Balaqah, Wisdom 252 world, there will be helplessness at the time of resurrection's reckoning, and there are Allah's rage and eternal Hell."[^1] There have been narrated in a tradition from the Prophet (p.b.u.h) who said: "When fornication increases, sudden death increases, too."[^2] "Do not commit fornication, so that your wives do not get involve in fornication. Whoever violates another person's honour his honour will be violated.

You will be treated as you treat others."[^3] "There are four things that if each of them exists in any house, that house will be desolate and void of blessing: A) Treachery B) Stealth C) Wine-Drinking D)Fornication."[^4] And "Fornication is one of the major sins."[^5] Imam Sadiq (a.s.) says: "Whenever people commit four sins, they will be involved in four disasters: Whenever fornication prevails, earthquakes will occur.