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Muta (Temporary marriage Or
Legalised Prostitution)
"MUTA" MEANS TEMPORARY MARRIAGE WITH
UNMARRIED WOMEN. IN THESE MARRIAGES AGENT AND WITNESSES ARE NOT
REQURIED. MUTA COULD BE FOR A NIGHT OR A FEW DAYS OR EVEN A FEW
HOURS, MONTHS OR YEARS AS MAY BE FIXED. AS SOON AS THE PERIODIS
OVER, THE WIFE ISCONSIDERED AUTOMATICALY DIVORCED.
MUTA IS
THE ARABIC WORD, THE LITERAL MEANING OF WHICH IS "ENJOYMENT" BUT
TECHNICALLY IT MEANS A MARRIAGE CONTRACTED FOR A FIXED PERIOD IN
RETURN FOR A RECOMPENSE OR AJR.
THIS SORT OF TEMPORARY
MARRIAGE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN IN VOGUE IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC DAYS AND THE
PROPHET PERMITTED IN THE BEGINNING IN CERTAIN COMPELLING
CIRCUMSTANCES BUT LATER ON PROHIBITED IT.
ACCORDING TO
AHADITH MUTA WAS LAWFUL IN THE EARLY EPOCHS OF ISLAM IN THE CASE OF
NECESSITY AND WAS FORBIDDEN BY THE PROPHET ON THE DAY OF THE
CONQUEST OF MAKKAH.
THE MUSLIMS MAINTAIN THAT THERE CAN BE NO
REFERENCE TO SUCH A TEMPORARY MARRIAGE OF PLEASURE IN THE QUR'AN
WHICH STANDS FOR MORAL EXCELLENCE AND DEALS ONLY WITH NIKAH OR
REGULAR MARRIAGE, THE SHITTES CONTEND THAT THERE IS A REFERENCE TO
THIS FORM OF MARRIAGE I.E. MUTA IN THE VERSE 24 OF SURAH AL-NISA.
THE CORRECT POSITION IS THAT THE SAID VERSE HAS COME TO SPECIFY THE
AJR OR RECOMPENSE WHICH BECOMES PAYABLE IN FULL WHEN THE WIFE IN A
REGULAR MARRIAGE IS GONE IN. "BUT GIVE THEM THEIR RECOMPENSE I.E.
DOWER FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ENJOYED OF THEM" ARE THE ACTUAL WORDS AND BY
ENOYMENT IS MENT THE SEXUAL INTERCORSE AFTER MARRIAGE THAT MAKES THE
RECOMPENSE OR DOWER PAYABLE IN FULL WHILE ONLY THE HALF OF IT IS TO
BE PAID, IF THE MARRIAGE IS DISSOLVED BEFORE SUCH INTERCOURSE. THE
PURPOSE OF THIS VERSE IN THEREFORE, TO CLARIFY THE OBLIGATION OF THE
HUSBAND IN CASE THE MARRIAGE IS EONSUMATED BY SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE.
MUTA IS NEITHER NIKAH (REGULAR MARRIAGE) NOR IS
IT APPLICABLE TO THE CAPTIVE WOMEN AND ACCORDING TO AL-DAR QUTNI,
ALI IBN ABI TALIB IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID THAT MUTA IS FORBIDDEN BY
THE PROPHET AS IT WAS FOR HIM WHO COULD NOT FIND (ANY ALTERNATIVE)
AND WAS ABROGATED WHEN THE REVELATION CAME WITH REGARD TO NIKAH OR
MARRIAGE, TALAQ OR DIVORCE, IDDAT OR WAITING PERIOD, AND MIRATH OR
INHERITENCE.
AS REPORTED BY TIRMIDHI AND OTHERS IT (MUTA) WAS
IN VOGUE IN THE EARLY EPOCHS OF ISLAM ESPECIALY WHEN A MAN CAME TO A
STRANGE TOWN HE WOULD MARRY A WOMAN FOR A PERIOD OF HIS STAY SO THAT
SHE MIGHT LOOK AFTER HIM AND HIS PROPERTY. AND AS SUCH IT WAS IN USE
WHILE A MAN WAS ON HIS JOURNEY. IT WAS ALSO PERMITTED ON PERTICULAR
OCCASIONS SUCH AS WAR WHEN IT IS HARD FOR MEN TO KEEP AWAY FROM
WOMEN FOR A LONG TIME. MUTA WAS PERMITTED BY THE PROPHET (SAW) IN
THE PERIODOF TRANSITION FROM THE JAHILIYYA TO ISLAM AND FOR THOSE
WHO WERE ON THE MILITARY EXPEDITIONS AND THEN HE FORBADE IT ONCE FOR
ALL.
THE PROHIBITION OF MUTA BY THE PROPHET (SAW) IS PROVED
TO BE FOR EVER AND IT IS ON THIS GROUND THAT UMAR FORBADE IT AS IT
WAS FORBIDDEN BY THE PROPHET (SAW) HIMSELF. PERHAPS SOME OF THE
COMPANIONS LIKE JABIR, IBN ABBAS AND OTHERS WHO ACTD UPON MUTA WERE
UNAWARE OF ITS PROHIBITION BY THE PROPHET UNTIL IT WAS PROCLAIMED BY
UMAR.
USQALANI SAYS THAT JABIR'S STATEMENT "WE ACTED UPON
MUTA" REFERS TO NONE EXCEPT HIS OWN SELF AND IBN HAZM ADMITTED MUTA
TO E UNLAWFUL IN OBEDIENCE TO THE SAYING OF THE PROPHET THAT IT WAS
FORBIDDEN UPTO THE DAY OF RESURRECTION, AND SAID, WE HAVE FAITH IN
THIS SAYING WHICH ESTABLISHES THE UNLAWFULNESS OF MUTA, (FATH
AL-BARI, VOL. 9, Pp. 166--174, CAIRO).
ALL IBN TALIB IS
REPORTED TO HAVE SAID TO HAVE SAID THAT THE PROPHET ON THE DAY OF
KHAYBER, FORBADE MUTA WITH WOMEN AND EATING OF THE MEAT OF THE
DOMESTICATED DONKEYS. FURTHER, IT IS REPORTED OF ALI BY THE SAME
CHAIN OF NARRATORS THAT HE ASKED IBN ABBAS TO ABSTAIN FROM ALLOWING
MUTA FOR THE PROPHET HAD FORBIDDEN IT AND THE MEAT OF THE
DOMESTICATED DONKEYS ON THE DAY OF KHAY BER.
THE UNLAWFULNESS
OF MUTA IS AGREED UPON BY THE UMMAH I.E. CONSENSUS EXCEPT THAT OF
THE SHITTES HOLD IT LAWFUL WHILE JAFIR AL-SADIQ, THEIR SIXTH IMAM,
IS REPORTED TO HAVE SAID THAT MUTA WAS EXACTLY ZINA OR FORNICATION
(BAIHAQI, SUNAN AL-KUBRA, VOL. 7, HYDERABED, 1353 A.H.).
AS
TO THE VARYING STATEMENTS IN THE BOOKS OF AHADITH REGARDING THE DATE
OF PROHIBITION OF MUTA, WE FIND THAT WHAT IS PROVED IS THAT MUTA WAS
PERMITTED ON THE DAY OF KHAYBER AND THEN PROHIBITED AGAIN; IT WAS
PERMITTED ON THE DAY OF KHAYBER AND THEN PROHIBITED AGAIN; IT WAS
PERMITTED IN THE YEAR OF CONQUEST OF MAKKAH AND THEREAFTER FORBIDDEN
FOR EVER.
IN THE FACE OF FACTS THAT MUTA WAS DEFINITELY
FORBIDEN BY THE PROPHET THERE CAN BE NO CHARGE AGAINST THE CALIPH
UMAR THAT HE WAS FIRST TO FORBID IT. WHAT UMAR DID WAS IN OBEDIENCE
TO THE COMMAND OF THE PROPHET (SAW) WHO DID NOT SPEAK OF (HIS OWN)
DESIRE UNLESS IT WAS A REVELATION THAT WAS REVEALED (AL-QUR'AN, 53 :
3-4). AND ABOUT WHOM IT IS SAID IN THE QUR'AN : "OBEY ALLAH AND THE
MESSENGER: (4: 35). "WHATEVER THE MESSENGER GIVES YOU TAKE IT, AND
WHATEVER HE FORBIDS, ABSTAIN FROM IT" (59 :7).
TO CUT THE
STORY SHORT, UMAR COULD NOT DECLARE THE UNLAWFULNESS OF MUTA EARLIER
AS NO SUCH CASE CAME TO HIM BEFORE. IF UMAR'S DECLARATION WAS NOT
RIGHT, WHY WAS IT NOT OPPOSED BY THE DIGNIFIED PERSONS LIKE ALI AND
OTHER COMPANIONS INCLUDING JABIR? THEY ABSTAINED FROM MUTA WHICH IS
A CONCLUSIVE PROOF OF THE FACT THAT THEY WERE CONVINCED OF ITS
UNLAWFULNESS. EVEN ALI DURING HIS CALIPHATE DID NOT MAKE MUTA
LAWFUL. THE INVALIDITY OF MUTA IS THUS ESTABLISHED BY IJMA OR
CONSENSUS, WHILE ITS PROHIBITION IS PROVED BY THE MOST RELIABLE
AHADITH OF THE PROPHET (SAW). ITS VICIOUSNESS AND INVALIDITY ARE
THEREFORE DOUBLY CONFIRMED. SHAIKH ABDUL WAHAB IS HIS BOOK
DECLARES:
"THE IMAMIAH ARE, NOT ONLY OUTSIDE THE PALE OF
AHLE-SUNNAH BUT ALSO OUTSIDE PALE OF UMMAH. THEY INDULGE IN ZINA. BY
USING THE RECTUM OF WOMAN THEY HAVE OPENED SEVERAL GATES OF ZINA FOR
THEM. ON ACCOUNT OF SUCH SENSUALITIES THEY ARE PRODUCTS OF ZINA. WE
PRAY TO ALLAH TO SAVE US ALL FROM FOLLOWING THE FOOTPRINTS OF
SATAN."
NAIKAH (MARRIAGE) VERSUS MUTA
IT IS RATHER
STRANGE THAT IN SHIA RELIGION GREAT BLESSINGS AND REWARDS ARE
PROMISED ON PERFORMANCE OF UNLAWFUL ACTS LIKE MUTA WHILE THERE ARE
NO SUCH BLESSINGS AND REWARDS ON LAWFUL ACTS LIKE NIKAH (REGULAR
MARRIAGE). IT IS STATED IN ONE OF THEIR BOOKS THAT: "WHOSO DOES MUTA
ONCE WILL RECEIVE THE RANK AND STATUS OF HUSSAIN; WHOSE DOESIT TWICE
THAT OF HASAN AND WHOSO THRICE THAT OF ALI AND WHOSO FOUR TIMES THAT
OF THE PROPHET (SAW) HIMSELF." (TAFSEER MINHAJ-US-SADIQUEEN, VOL. V,
P. 493 BY MULLAH FATHULLAH KASHANI, PUBLISHED FROM
TEHRAN).
CAN THERE BE ANY GREATER AUDACITY? AND CAN THERE BE
ANY OTHER RELIGION WHICH PROMOTES LICENTIOUSNESS IN SUCH A NAKED
FASHION?
THE IMAMIS (SHITTES) GO EVEN FURTHER AND SAY "THE
BELIEVER IS ONLY PERFECT WHEN HE HAS EXPERIENCED A MUTA (SHORTER
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISLAM, LONDON 1961).
ACCORDING TO SHIAS,
MUTA IS AN ACT OF GREAT MERIT, IF INDULGED IN FOR THE PLEASURE OF
ALLAH. WITH LOVING CONVERSATION, WITH INTERCOURSE, MERITS ARE
RECORDED, AND WITH A BATH AFTER COITION ALL HIS SINS PARDONED.
(ISLAHUR RUSUM -- p. 164).
IMAAM BAQAR SAID THAT THERE ARE
THREE RECREATIONS FOR MOMINS (SHIAS): MUTA, JOKING AMONG THEMSELVES
AND PRAYERS AT NIGHT (ISLAHUR RUSUM -- P. 164) HAZRAT OMAR (R.A)
DECREED THAT MUTA IS PROSTITUTION AND ILLEGAL IN ISLAM. IN ORDER TO
CONTROVERT HAZRAT OMAR (R.A), THE SHIAS LAY GREAT STRESS ON ITS
LEGALITY AND MERIT.
AS WOULD BE SEEN FROM THE FOREGOING
ACCOUNT, ALTHOUGH THERE IS A GREAT LAXITY IN SHIA RELIGION IN
SATISFYING SEXUAL LUST BY WAY OF MUTA, THERE IS ONE SEVERE
RESTRICTION IN CASE OF NIKAH. SOME INSTANCES OF THIS RESTRICTION
ARE:
(1) IT IS STATED IN AL-KAFI (P. 350) : "NO SHIA MALE CAN
MARRY A SUNNI FEMALE; AND NEITHER A SUNNI MALE CAN MARRY A SHIA
FEMALE. EVEN A WEAK (IN FAITH) SUNNI CANNOT MARRY A SHIA
WOMAN."
(2) "IT IS NOT LAWFUL FOR ANY MUSIM ADULT THAT HE
SHOULD MARRY WITH A SUNNI WOMAN. A SHIA FATHER SHOULD NOT GIVE IN
MARRIAGE HIS DAUGHTER TO A SUNNI MAN. IF PER CHANCE THE NIKAH HAS
TAKEN PLACE; HE SHOULD NOT ALLOW HIS DAUGHTER TO LIVE IN UNION WITH
THE SUNNI. WHOSO HAS OPPOSED THE PROGENY OF MUHAMMAD (SAW) (AS THE
SUNNIS DO) HAS NO SHARE IN ISLAM. THAT IS WHY NIKAH (MAN LA
YAHDHURUHU! FAQAH).
(3) FAISAL SAYS THAT HE ASKED IMAM BAQIR
WHETHER HE CAN MARRY A SUNNI LADY. THE IMAMREPLIED: NO, NEVER
BECAUSE NASIBIES (I.E. THOSE WHO CONSIDER THAT ABU BAKR, UMAR, USMAN
HAVE PRECEDENCE OVER ALI) ARE KAFIRS (INFIDLS). (7: 303
TAHZIB-UL-AHKAAM).
(4) IT WAS NARRATED BEFORE IMAM BAQIR
ABOUT THE NASIBIS: THEREUPON HE SAID: YOU SHOULD NEITHER TAKE THEM
IN MARRIAGE, NOR TAKE THEIR ZABI'AH (MEAT OF SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS)
AND NOR LIVE IN THEIR COMPANY." (7 : 303 TAHZIB
UL-AHKAAM).
(5) "ALMIGHTY ALLAH HAS NOT CREATED ANY THING
MORE NASTASTING ( ) THAN THE DOG. BUT THE SUNNI IS EVEN MORE
POLLUTED( ) THAN THE DOG." ( 5: 234 ).
THE SHIA CONSENSUS IS
THAT SUNNI MUSLIMS ARE THE WORST OF THE CREATED BEINGS !
"LO
! HEREIN IS INDEED A LESSON FOR THOSE WHO SEE." (24 : 44)
IT
IS VERY SAD AND DISTRESSING TO NOTE THAT SOME OF THE PEOPLE OF ALLAH
SUNNAH OUT OF IGNORANCE ENTER INTO MARTIMONIAL BONDS WITH THE SHIAS
THINKING THAT THEY ARE MUSLIMS WITH THE RESULT THAT IN THE LONG RUN
THEY HAVE TO FACE DIRE CONSEQUENCES.
THERE IS NO DENYING THE
FACT THAT IT IS VERY HAND TO SAY SOMEONE WHO RECITES THE KALIMAH AS
KAFIR AND ULAMA OF ISLAM HAVE BEEN VERY CAREFUL IN THIS REGARD. IMAM
ABU HANIFA HAS EVEN WARNED THAT ONE WHO FACES THE QIBLA OF MUSLIMS
SHOULD NOT BE DUBBED AS KAFIR UNLESS HE DENIES THE FUNDAMENTALS OF
ISLAM. BUT NOW WHEN THE SHIA BELIEFS ABOUT IMAMATE WHICH IS A
NEGATION OF THE FINALITY OF PROPHETHOOD AND TAHRIF (PERVERSION OF
THE TEXT) IN THE QUR'AN HAVE BECOME IT IS CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT ONE WHO
SUBSCRIBES TO THE VIEW OF TAHRIF IN THE QUR'AN IS A KAFIR (INFIDEL)
ACCORDING TO ALL SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT OF THE SUNNI MUSLIMS.
A
PERUSAL OF THE BRIEF BUT AUTHENTIC FATAWA OF THE ULAMA GIVEN AT
APPENDIX -- V ABOUT THE KUFR AND IRTIDAD (APOSTACY) OF SHIAS WILL
HOPEFULLY MAKE THE CARE-FREE SUNNI MUSLIMS REALISE THE TRUE STATE OF
AFFAIRS AND THEREBY ENABLE THEM TO REFRAIN FROM ENTERING INTO
MATRIMONIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SHIAS OR EAT THEIR ZABIAH (MEAT OF
ANIMALS SLAUGHTERED BY THEM) OR PARTICIPATE IN EACH OTHER FUNERAL
PRAYERS.
FOR AN INSIGHT INTO THE SHIA RELIGION, THE READERS
ARE ALSO ADVISED TO SEE VARIOUS ARTICLES IN URDU OF MAULANA ABDUS
SHAKOOR PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM UNDER THE TITLE " . " THIS COLLECTION
IS AVAILABLE FROM: JAMIA HANAFIA TALIMUL ISLAM, MADANI MOHALLAH,
JHELUM, (PAKISTAN).
THE SUBSTANCE OF SHIA TEACHINGS AND
PROPAGANDA IS THAT THE COMPANSIONS OF THE HOLY PROPHET WHO WERE MORE
THAN 1,00,000 IMMEDIATLEY AFTER THE DEMISE OF THE PROPHET (S.A.W)
WITH THE EXPECTIONS OF FOUR PERSONS. THE REST BECAME MURTADS ( ).
THE SHIA BELIEVE THAT THE QUR'AN HAS BEEN PERVERTED AND CORRUPTED OR
INERPOLATED AND CHANGED WHEREAS FALSEHOOD (THE SO CALLED TAQIYA) IS
THE SOLE ANS DISTINCT DOCTRINE OF THE SHIA. THEY CONSIDER IT AS THE
NOBLEST OF ALL WORKS AND GREATEST OF ALL MEANS OF SEEKING NEARNESS
TO ALLAH.
THE SHIA ALSO BELIEVE THAT ALI AND HIS CHILDREN
ARE NOLBER ANS MORE VIRTUOUS THAN THE PROPHET (S.A.W)! REITERATING
THIS BELIEF, A SHIA ALIM HAS SAID RECENTLY TO T.V TAHT RASUL-ALLAH
(SAW) HAD BEEN BLESSED BY ALMIGHTY ALLAH WITH EVERY THING EXPECT
MARTYRDOM. AS IT WAS ORDAINED TO COMPLETE THIS DIVINE BLESSING, IT
WAS ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE MARTYRDOM OF HADRAT HUSSAIN.
UNFORTUNATELY MOST OF THE SIMPLE-MINDED SHIAS HAVE BEEN
BEGUILED BU THEIR LIVE FOR THE AHL-AL-BAIT (PEOPLE OF THE HOUSE OF
THE PROPHET -- SAW) AND THEIR HOLINESS. ALAS! WOULD THEY EVER CARE
TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND TO HAVE INSIGHT INTO THE AFFARIS! BUT MOST OF
THEM DO NOT KNOW THE REALITY OF THEIR FAITH AS IT IS PURPOSELY KEPT
HIDDEN FROM THEM BY THEIR HIGH PRIESTS FOR ULTERIOR MOTIVES. THE
BOOK IN URDU3 --------------------
--------------------------------------------------- BY MAULANA ABUL
HASAN ALI NADWI WOULD BE ABLE TO ILLUMINATING, INSTRUCTIVE AND
HELPFUL FOR THEM IN THE DISCOVERY OF TRUTH.
THERE IS A DIRE
NEED TO ENLIGHTEN AND WIN OVER MISQUIDED SHIAS TO THE PATH OF
AHLE-SUNNAH BUT THE TRAGEDY IS THAT SOME OF THE ISLAMIC GROUPS IN
VARIOUS COUNTRIES HAVE BEEN ENAMOURED BY THE OUTWARD GLAMOUR OF THE
SO-CALLED "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION" IN IRAN. THEY ARE MISLEADING
SIMPLE-MINDED MUSLIMS IN THEIR AREA WITHOUT STUDYING DISPASSIONATELY
THAT THE MUCH-PUBLICISED "ISLAMIC REVLOUTION" OF IRAN IS FOR ALL
INTENTS AND PURPOSES A SHIITE REVOLUTION AND IN FACT A TROJAN HORSE
FOR PLATING THE SEEDS OF SHIA BELIEFS AND DOCTRINES IN MUSLIMS
LANDS. LET THEM READ THE BOOK "IRANIAN REVOLUTION" AVAILABLE FROM
SIDDIQUI TRUST, G.P.O. BOX 609 KARACHI (PAKISTAN) WHICH WILL UNVEIL
THE CURTAINS FOR THEM. ON THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL FRONT LET THEM
SEE AND REALISE THAT SUNNI MUSLIMS IN TEHRAN ALONE NUMBERING HALF A
ILLION HAVE SO FAR NOT BEEN PERMITTED TO BUIL A MASJID OF THEIR OWN
DESPITE THEIR LONG STANDING DEMAND AND APPEAL TO THE AUTHORITIES
INCLUDING KHOMENI. ON THE OTHER HAND, COUNTLESS SUNNI MUSLIMS HAVE
BEEN KILLED SINCE THE REVOLUTION IN FEB. 1979.*
THE SUNNI
MUSLIMS IN IRAN WHO ARE OVER 1/3 OF THE TOTAL POPULATION DO NOT HAVE
THE FREEDOM TO BUILD A MASJID IN THE CAPITAL OR CALL ADHAN ALTHOUGH
OTHER MINOURITIES LIKE HINDUS, SIKHS, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS HAVE THEIR
PLACES OF WORSHIP IN TEHRAN. SUCH ID THE "ISLAMIC REVOLUTION" OF
IRAN WHERE SUNNI MUSLIMS LIKE KURDS, TURKS, BALUCHIS ETC. WHO ARE IN
MAJORITY IN ALL THE BORDER AREAS ARE PERSECUTED AND DENIED OF THEIR
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS!
NOTES:
1. MUTA DR. MUHAMMAD
MUSLEHUDDIN, ISLAMIC PUBLICATIONS LTS; 13-E, SHAH ALAM MARKET,
LAHORE (PP. 67-69).
2. THIS SHIITTEE TRADITION ALONE IS
ENOUGH TO DEMONSTRATE THAT IN THE VIEW OF SHIAS MUTA IS THE HIGHEST
AND MOST EXCELLENT WORSHIP. NOWHERE IN THEIR BOOKS IT IS MENTIONED
THAT BY ACTS OF DEVOTION LIKE SALAT, ZAKAT OR HAJ ONE CAN ATTAIN THE
RANK OF IMAM OR MESSENGER (NABI) EXCEPT BY DOING MUTA. THIS
ABSURDITY ALONE IS THE SPECIALITY OF SHIA RELIGION.
3 THIS
BOOK IN URDU LANGUAGE IS AVAILABLE FROM MAKTA NADWATUL ULAMA, P.O
BOX 93, LUCKNOW, INIDA.
4 TILL THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF
IRANIAN REVOLUTION (I.E. FEB. 1980) TWENTY THOUSAND SUNNI MUSLIMS
ALONE HAD BEEN KILLED IN ISPHAN AND KURDISTAN WHERE 95% OF THE
POPULATION IS AHLE-SUNNAH. FOR DETAILS PLEASE SEE "KHOMENISM AND
ISLAM" BY ABU RAHAN FAROOQI, (PP. 92--102) PUBLISHED BY ISHAAT
AL-MAARIF, RAILWAY ROAD, FAISALABAD,
(PAKISTAN). |