The Ruling on Falsely Accusing Chaste, Unaware Believing Women

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Question:
May Allah reward you and bless you. Umm Muhammad sent a set of questions, saying: First, the first paragraph: What is the ruling on falsely accusing believing women?

Answer:
Allah (Exalted and Majestic) says:

Indeed, those who [falsely] accuse chaste, unaware and believing women are cursed in this world and the Hereafter

إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ الْغَافِلَاتِ الْمُؤْمِنَاتِ لُعِنُوا فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ

[An-Nur 24:23]

, and for them is a great punishment.
And before that, he said:

And those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses - lash them with eighty lashes

وَالَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ الْمُحْصَنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَأْتُوا بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَدَاءَ فَاجْلِدُوهُمْ ثَمَانِينَ جَلْدَةً

[An-Nur 24:4]

, so their punishment in this world is that they are to be flogged eighty lashes, and their testimony is not to be accepted from them ever,

do not accept from them testimony ever after

وَلَا تَقْبَلُوا لَهُمْ شَهَادَةً أَبَدًا

[An-Nur 24:4]

and the third is that they are open sinners

And those are the defiantly disobedient,

وَأُولَٰئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ

[An-Nur 24:4]

. This is in this world and the Hereafter, as Allah said:

will have a painful punishment in this world and the Hereafter. And Allah knows and you do not know.

لَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةِ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

[An-Nur 24:19]

. Accusing women of zina is among the seven destructive sins and among the greatest of major sins, as the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

(peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Shall I inform you of the greatest of the major sins?" They said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah." He said: "Associating partners with Allah, and being undutiful to parents, and killing the soul which Allah has forbidden except for a just cause, and consuming riba (usury or interest), and consuming the orphan's wealth, and turning back on the day of battle,"

صلى الله عليه وسلم ألا أنبئكم بأكبر الكبائر؟ قالوا بلى يا رسول الله، قال السحر والشرك وعقوق الوالدين، وقتل النفس التي حرم الله إلا بالحق، وأكل الربا، وأكل مال اليتيم، والتولي يوم الزحف،

slandering chaste women who are believers, but unwary

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Sahih Muslim 89

. So it is a major sin among the major sins. And the meaning of qadhf (falsely accusing someone of zina) is to accuse her of zina, such as saying, "O fornicator," or "So-and-so is a fornicator," or "She commits zina." Yes.

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