Verse 20
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اِنَّ الَّذِیۡنَ یُحِبُّوۡنَ اَنۡ تَشِیۡعَ الۡفٰحِشَۃُ فِی الَّذِیۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا لَہُمۡ عَذَابٌ اَلِیۡمٌ فِی الدُّنۡیَا وَالۡاٰخِرَۃِ ۚ وَاللّٰہُ یَعۡلَمُ وَاَنۡتُمۡ لَا تَعۡلَمُوۡنَ
伊斯兰教认为散布和流传伪造的指控是一种破坏别人贞节的严重犯罪行为。它谴责这两种罪行并规定了有关的惩罚条例--------对流言蜚语的制造者甚至给以更严厉的惩罚, 因为在一个社会中流传性生活的不道德行为所产生的后果认为比错误的性生活行为要严重得多。在一个社会中, 流言蜚语若允许其存在且任其泛滥, 这个社会势将开始对犯不道德罪行的事情丧失一切嫉恶和痛恨的感觉, 其结果是不道德行为将猖狂泛滥, 整个社会会开始被一种没有前途的悲观情绪所笼罩, 这样就动摇整个社会的道德基础。
یعنی بلا تحقیق فحشاء کے الزام لگانے اور ان کو پھیلانے سے قوم میں فحشاء کی عظمت کم ہو جاتی ہے اور لوگ فحشاء پر جرأت کرنے لگ جاتے ہیں۔
Islam has taken as serious a view of the spreading and circulation of false accusations as that of crimes against chastity. It has condemned and prescribed punishment for both the crimes—for scandal-mongering even a severer punishment since it is calculated to produce more grievous consequences as far as the prevalence of sexual immorality in a community is concerned than the stray acts of sexual misconduct. If scandal-mongering is allowed to be indulged in unchecked in a community, it will come to lose all sense of horror and abhorrence at the commission of immoral acts with the result that immorality will become rampant and a sense of pessimism with regard to its future will begin to prevail in the community, thus shaking its whole moral foundation.
Commentary:
In the foregoing few verses, the Quran has severely condemned scandal-mongering. It has taken as serious a view of the spreading and circulation of false accusations as that of crimes in the community, thus shaking the whole moral foundation of society. It is this sense of pessimism which the verse under comment seeks to eradicate. Whereas on the one hand the Quran has severely condemned scandal-mongering and has enjoined that sexual misconduct should be reported to the concerned authorities and not freely talked about in public, on the other it has encouraged that good and virtuous acts should be given wide publicity and proper appreciation. These Quranic injunctions conduce to the creation of a very healthy atmosphere and to the eradication and extermination of the evil of sexual immorality.
The words "Allah knows and you know not" signify that God alone knows the sources of evil and it is He Who alone can direct us as to how an evil can be successfully resisted and eradicated. It is not given to man to find out the genesis and source of evil. Moral philosophers and psychologists have discussed and debated as to what is vice, but none of them has been able so far to trace out its real source. It is the revealed word of God that has done so. The Quran has not only dealt with the various forms of evil and laid down directions and injunctions to meet and conquer it but has also shed light on how evil originates and takes birth and how it develops. In this verse we are told that scandal-mongering leads to the prevalence of vice.
900
伊斯兰教认为散布和流传伪造的指控是一种破坏别人贞节的严重犯罪行为。它谴责这两种罪行并规定了有关的惩罚条例--------对流言蜚语的制造者甚至给以更严厉的惩罚, 因为在一个社会中流传性生活的不道德行为所产生的后果认为比错误的性生活行为要严重得多。在一个社会中, 流言蜚语若允许其存在且任其泛滥, 这个社会势将开始对犯不道德罪行的事情丧失一切嫉恶和痛恨的感觉, 其结果是不道德行为将猖狂泛滥, 整个社会会开始被一种没有前途的悲观情绪所笼罩, 这样就动摇整个社会的道德基础。
1
یعنی بلا تحقیق فحشاء کے الزام لگانے اور ان کو پھیلانے سے قوم میں فحشاء کی عظمت کم ہو جاتی ہے اور لوگ فحشاء پر جرأت کرنے لگ جاتے ہیں۔
2603
Commentary:
In the foregoing few verses, the Quran has severely condemned scandal-mongering. It has taken as serious a view of the spreading and circulation of false accusations as that of crimes in the community, thus shaking the whole moral foundation of society. It is this sense of pessimism which the verse under comment seeks to eradicate. Whereas on the one hand the Quran has severely condemned scandal-mongering and has enjoined that sexual misconduct should be reported to the concerned authorities and not freely talked about in public, on the other it has encouraged that good and virtuous acts should be given wide publicity and proper appreciation. These Quranic injunctions conduce to the creation of a very healthy atmosphere and to the eradication and extermination of the evil of sexual immorality.
The words "Allah knows and you know not" signify that God alone knows the sources of evil and it is He Who alone can direct us as to how an evil can be successfully resisted and eradicated. It is not given to man to find out the genesis and source of evil. Moral philosophers and psychologists have discussed and debated as to what is vice, but none of them has been able so far to trace out its real source. It is the revealed word of God that has done so. The Quran has not only dealt with the various forms of evil and laid down directions and injunctions to meet and conquer it but has also shed light on how evil originates and takes birth and how it develops. In this verse we are told that scandal-mongering leads to the prevalence of vice.
2035
Islam has taken as serious a view of the spreading and circulation of false accusations as that of crimes against chastity. It has condemned and prescribed punishment for both the crimes—for scandal-mongering even a severer punishment since it is calculated to produce more grievous consequences as far as the prevalence of sexual immorality in a community is concerned than the stray acts of sexual misconduct. If scandal-mongering is allowed to be indulged in unchecked in a community, it will come to lose all sense of horror and abhorrence at the commission of immoral acts with the result that immorality will become rampant and a sense of pessimism with regard to its future will begin to prevail in the community, thus shaking its whole moral foundation.