A woman locked the door on a man and demanded that he commit fornication with her, threatening that if he did not submit to her request, she would scream; what should he do?

The Shaykh : It seems the questioner is the one involved in the story, even though he is behind walls via the phone, but his tone and phrasing in asking suggest that he is the one with the problem. He says: "I want to ask you a question, please go ahead." He says: "A man works for a teacher, so the teacher sent him on an errand to his house. He delivered the item and handed it to the teacher's wife. As soon as the woman received the item from him, she locked the door on the man from the inside and demanded that he commit fornication with her. He refused. She said: 'By Allah, if you refuse, I will raise my voice and gather the people around you and expose you to the people unless you submit to what I want.'"

The questioner : A tax...

The Shaykh : Yes, so he said to me: "What is the value of this?" Meaning, he is now going to face a problem, as if his inner voice is saying that this scandal is going to happen; so why not settle it? But he is now telling it about someone else, yet I feel as if he is the one who did it, or the one this matter happened to. I told him: Instead of letting her scream, let him be the one to scream [Everyone laughs!], let him scream and the neighbors gather [The Shaykh laughs!], that is all.