Slandering of a Woman
By : Arshad A Javed
The Quran takes slandering of women very seriously. If anyone who blames a woman and attacks her chastity without complying stringent sharia requirements of testimony and evidence, Quran warns them of dire consequences. Look at the following verses from the Quran:
Why should we not slander a woman
It says in Surah Noor:
- And those who launch a charge against chaste women, and produce not four witnesses (to support their allegations),- flog them with eighty stripes; and reject their evidence ever after: for such men are wicked transgressors.(24:4).
- Why did they not produce four witnesses to it? Since they did not bring four witnesses, in Allah’s sight, they are liars. (24:13)
- People who love to see filth being spread about concerning those who believe will have a painful punishment both in this world and the hereafter. Allah knows and you do not know. (24:19)
What should you do when you hear such rumour?
- Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the believers, instinctively think good thoughts and say, ‘This is obviously a lie’? (24:12)
- Why, when you heard it, did you not say, ‘We have no business speaking about this. Glory be to You! This is a terrible slander!’? (24:16)
- Were it not for Allah’s favour to you and His mercy, both in this world and the hereafter, a terrible punishment would have afflicted you for your plunging headlong into it. (24:14)
- You were bandying it about on your tongues, your mouths uttering something about which you had no knowledge. You considered it to be a trivial matter, but, in Allah’s sight, it is immense. (24:15)
- Allah warns you never to repeat the like of it again if you are believers. (24:17)
- Allah makes the Signs clear to you and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. (24:18)