What is the wisdom behind exiling the unmarried fornicator for one year?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the wisdom behind exiling the unmarried fornicator for one year?
Answer:
It is to change his situation and to distance him from the place of the crime and from bad companions. Changing the place causes a change in the state. They say that changing the place causes a change in the state. He finds good people and people far from the place of the crime, so he is influenced by them toward righteousness and uprightness. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner asks: What is the wisdom behind exiling the unmarried fornicator for one year?
Answer:
It is to change his situation and to distance him from the place of the crime and from bad companions. Changing the place causes a change in the state. They say that changing the place causes a change in the state. He finds good people and people far from the place of the crime, so he is influenced by them toward righteousness and uprightness. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [174 -560] ما الحكمة من تغريب الزاني غير المحصن عاما؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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