Islam has addressed serious issues openly &sought;to correct actions that constitute harm or ZULM (cruelty &abuse;) to the dignity of humankind. Human life and respect for it has been stressed unstintingly, regardless of age or gender. Islâm forbids all ZULM, be it physical, mental, emotional or spiritual:

“Abandon all harm, whether committed openly or in secret.” (Q6:120)

Islamic legal scholars interpret rape as a crime in the category of Hiraba. Hiraba is: A single person or group of people causing public disruption, killing, forcibly taking property or money, attacking or raping women, killing cattle, or disrupting agriculture.

If a person forced a woman to have sex, his actions would be deemed as committing hiraba. The Maliki judge Ibn ‘Arabi, relates a story in which a group was attacked and a woman in their party was raped. Responding to the argument that the crime did not constitute hiraba because no money was taken and no weapons used, Ibn ‘Arabi replied indignantly that "hiraba with the private parts" is much worse than hiraba involving the taking of money, & that anyone would rather be subjected to the latter than the former.

In Islam, sexual autonomy and pleasure is a fundamental right for both women and men; taking by force someone’s right to control the sexual activity of one’s body is thus a form of hiraba.

The focus in a hiraba prosecution is the accused rapist and his intent and physical actions, and not second-guessing the consent of the rape victim. Hiraba does not require four witnesses to prove the offense, circumstantial evidence, medical data and expert testimony form the evidence used to prosecute such crimes.

During the time of the Prophet (saw) punishment was inflicted on the rapist on the solitary evidence of the woman who was raped by him. Wa'il ibn Hujr reports of an incident when a woman was raped. Later, when some people came by, she identified and accused the man of raping her. They seized him &brought;him to Allah's messenger, who said to the woman, "Go away, for Allâh has forgiven you," but of the man who had raped her, he said, "Stone him to death."

NOTE: If a woman seems that she invited a man to have sex with her, or was willing to have sex with him &both;went away &came;back later, &then;she claims that he raped her, &he;denies that, then her case would be considered invalid, &both;of them would be determined to have had illegal sex, ∴, both of them would get punished for it.

A woman has to be respected &protected;under all circumstances, whether she belongs to your own nation or to the nation of an enemy, whether she follows your religion or belongs to some other religion or has no religion at all.

Heavy punishment has been prescribed for this crime, & the order has not been qualified by any conditions.

#Respect #Love & #Support to #Damini #Amanat

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