{"id":5825,"date":"2024-07-10T07:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/acts-leading-to-adultery\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:41:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:41:27","slug":"acts-leading-to-adultery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/acts-leading-to-adultery\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts Leading To Adultery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>I am a happily married woman.  I practice Islam. A couple of years while being married I came close to  an unrelated friend at work. We did not have sex but our sexual parts  somehow touched. I was alarmed and hurried to save my chastity. I have  ever since been repentant. What I want to know is whether that act is <em>zina<\/em>?  I repent everyday and I feel nasty and horrible for what I did. I can  barely look at my lovely husband without feeling horrible. O Allah  forgive me! What can I do? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Thank you for writing to us. Legally and technically the acts you committed are not considered <em>zina<\/em>.  However, as is obvious from the gravity of the act as you yourself can  feel, it is almost equal to the crime. There are acts which show put us  directly into the crime. Such acts too are forbidden as a preventive  measure. This is in Muslim culture women do not mix freely with men. It  is the mercy of God and His decision that He saved you from consummating  what was the natural result of your advances. <\/p>\n<p>The  feelings of remorse and repentance that you have in your heart and mind  are very encouraging. This shows you have the light of <em>imaan<\/em> (faith) burning in your self. <\/p>\n<p>A  strong resolve to give up the sin followed by a positive advancement  towards good and virtue means that one has truly repented and true  repentance washes away sins. God has promised forgiveness to those who  sin driven by the desires of the self and then repent soon for they come  to know the gravity of their sin. Such people are forgiven. However,  those who persist in sin and keep waiting for the time they would not be  able to enjoy the sinful act to repent are not forgiven. <\/p>\n<p>I suggest you continue thank God on that you did not consummate the act and that He turned your heart to virtue and fear of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-05<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"5825\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a happily married woman.  I practice Islam. A couple of years while being married I came close to  an unrelated friend at work. We did not have sex but our sexual parts  somehow touched. I was alarmed and hurried to save my chastity. I have  ever since been repentant. What I want to know is whether that act is <em>zina<\/em>?  I repent everyday and I feel nasty and horrible for what I did. I can  barely look at my lovely husband without feeling horrible. O Allah  forgive me! 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