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Surah Anaam 151, Denotation Of “La Taqrabu”, Sadd E Zariya
Assallam u alaikum, my question is that in Surah anaam 151, I saw Ghamidi sahabs tafseer video.
when the list of prohibition is being said in ayah, Quran does not commands “la taqrabu” for the other sins mentioned there like killing ones own offspring, Shirk, killing a soul, being disrespectful to parents.
but here when it talks about Zina, it doesn’t merely say of not doing it, but here Quran says that “la taqrabu”….don‘t even go near that.
Ghamdi Sahab when explaining about this told that this demand of Allah from us, by virtue of this command mentioned here, includes all those sins which cause addiction. it means all those sins which cause addiction as a result will fall under this category and Quran demands us all that for such sins… we have to avoid what takes us near too. this was one point that I understood
and further in explanation he told that because when you ‘go near it’ for example touching a woman with lust, this thing sucks you into Zina and it’s almost impossible to break this attraction. (I’m not using the word ’causes’ because many things become a general cause for a sin to happen, but here I’m putting focus on the things that sucks one into a sin like a vacuum cleaner). the attraction of sin starts as soon as a person does the action which falls under “la taqrabu”. this was the second point.
as an example for delivering my understanding : Using phone has become a major cause of Zina these days, because when one uses phone it gives a free access and temptation to watch pornography which slowly slowly drowns a person into eventual Zina. before if 100 youngsters were into Zina addiction, now there are 1000 youngsters because of mobile phones.
but despite this when a youngster buys a phone, we don’t say he’s violating a command of Allah, because phone in itself doesn’t ‘sucks’ a person into Zina. a person doesn’t gets attracted to Zina by merely using phone, even though nowadays it’s a big cause. so there’s a difference between something being a general ’cause’ and something that ‘sucks’ a person into sin by pumping temptations to do that sin ‘like in pornography, or in touching a woman with lust’.
another example would be marriage is a big cause of sins like insulting and saying hurtful things. because when a marriage occurs, a man and a woman live again. and naturally they fight, in fights sometimes someone crosses limit and falls into major sin of insulting or saying hurtful or inappropriate things about other or other’s family. there’s hardly any couple that can claim that in their whole life they didn’t fall in this major sin, but still we marriage we don’t say marriage is sin. because marriage itself doesn’t tempts a person to do insulting, even though it’s a cause
so my question is that 2 points that I understood, one is that the sin results in addiction once it’s done, the other is that the means to it ‘sucks, exerts temptation, marks the start of’ of the sin . then when these 2 conditions meet then Allah demands us to not even do the ‘means’ action . and doing it would be a minor sin because of violation of command of Allah. for example Drinking alcohol causes addiction to drinking alcohol, and drinking a sip of alcohol does sucks a person into drinking a whole glass until he feels the booze. so that’s why even drinking a sip of alcohol is to be avoided under la taqrabu.
I need a scholars advice and help to guide me if I’m correct or not and guide me in whatever thing I’m wrong, in my understanding
I would suggest please to watch the tafsir video of Ghamdi Sahab first, so that my question becomes understandable else it might cause confusion.
https://www.youtube.com/live/L-dGcU0pZzA?si=apIadTsDWeR906a7
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Surah Anaam 151, Denotation Of “La Taqrabu”, Sadd E Zariya
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@Irfan76 sir would someone for example goes to a restaurant where pork is being cooked. he goes there usually and smells the meat of it being cooked, which tempts him and makes him curious to try it. he realized that sometimes the smell of a meat tempts a person into eating the meat.
He understands that there’s high chance of falling into eating this pork meat after getting tempted in the restaurant. But second thing is Pork meat is not addictive like Zina or drugs, it does not cause addiction.
this restaurant has good prices in general and is near his house, if he still goes to that restaurant knowing that there can be temptation leading to try it out of curiousity. will the act of his going to the restaurant, even for a halal meal, be sinful for him?
out of the condition mentioned above of addiction like in Zina, pork meat doesn’t make a person addict and he can easily avoid it and it won’t cause impulsion like addictive things
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It can cause an addiction in the sense that he might get used to eating the pork. He should avoid it.
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sir I meant to just highlight that if the sin that happens for example will not cause an addiction. will he be required by Allah to avoid it’s means too? where merely doing it’s mean will be sinful too.
we can replace the example of above pork meat by a jelly that has a Haram ingredient of pork or meat of cow but without tasmiya. something that doesn’t cause addiction
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Anything which directly and solely leads to a haram thing is to be avoided.
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“directly and solely” I understand sir, but if in the above example his going to the restaurant was not in order to put himself to Haram but it was to fulfill his halal need of eating a halal meal because he was tired, and didn’t want to cook food at home, so he came here to eat a halal meal, despite it’s risk above. now his coming to restaurant is not solely leading to Haram but to some Halal needs too, what will be the ruling in this sir?
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In that case it is ok.
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