14. Zina Prevails

RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “Zina will prevail.” [Bukhari]

In another hadith, which is a scientific miracle, RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “If zina will prevail until people will advertise for it in public, then Allah will inflict on them diseases which did not exist before.” Not just committing zina – but zina in public and advertised. AIDS was a disease that did not exist before. Allah sent it on the people because zina is public and it is advertised for in movies, on billboards, etc. Even advertisement of cigarettes or cars, there is nudity -this is also advertisement of zina. People should not think that if they find the cure for AIDS, it’ll be ok, because Allah will send another disease that didn’t exist before. This is one of the signs that will happen partially, and in the end it will prevail.

RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said in a hadith narrated by Muslim, at the time of ‘Eesa ibn Maryam(AS), Allah will take away the souls of the believers, and then in the end, the evil people would remain. They would have sexual relations just like donkeys – everything is legal. Promiscuity will be just like donkeys – everything will be in public. “This Ummah will not end until a time will come when a man will approach a woman and will sleep with her in the middle of the road (in front of everyone). The best amongst them at that time, the most righteous, will go to them and say, ‘If you could please go behind that wall.” This man is not preventing them, or shouting at them. He’s just asking them to go behind a wall - and this is the best amongst them.

Zina is widespread now, even amongst Muslims. We need to wake up to the fact that the culture of Hollywood is a world-wide culture. People in the most holy places are doing these things. The satellite dish is now over huts and houses in some parts of the worlds that are so secluded that da’wah has not reached them in decades. You will find that movies and nudity has reached them. One of the reasons is that we are promoting that. We have made halaal difficult, and haraam easy. Look at how difficult marriage is. Muslims have made marriage so difficult – the responsibility on the man and woman before marriage is so difficult: the man has to be an engineer or a doctor, etc. The requirements are so specific.

RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam said, “If a man comes to you and wants to marry your daughter, and you are pleased with his religion and his character, and you refuse to marry him, then there will be fitna and corruption on the earth.” This is talking about social corruption. We are all raising our daughters in the same environment. If we don’t rectify the situation, then we are going to have to pay for it.

One of the scholars was saying that the rich people would do a great sadaqah if they would help poor couples get married by sponsoring marriage, rather than giving money to the beggars at the doors of the masjid. You find a lot of people giving them money. A lot of these people are business people. We need to re-evaluate how we give sadaqah. There are a lot of people who are in real need of sadaqah and they don’t get it. For example, a young couple that needs money to get married.

Al-Qurtubi said that this is a sign that RasulAllah sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam talk about that is happening especially during our times (the hadith about zina in public). Al-Qurtubi was describing the situation in his era in AlAndalus. What caused the Muslims in Spain to lose this strong hold of Islam, that was at one point a khilafaa in itself? The Muslims, for a long time, didn’t agree with the concept of more than one khilafaa. Even though the Muslims were independent of Khilafaa Abbasiyya, they didn’t call themselves a khilafaa. They became so rich, confident and strong that they began to say that they formed a khilafaa. This is the first time that there were two khilafaas – a khilaafa in Qurtuba and a khilafaa in Baghdad. Spain was so wealthy and rich. There was social corruption. There was a prostitute that wrote on her forehead one line of a poem, inviting others. Qurtubi was describing that these things (open zina) happened during his time.