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In contrast to human rights activists, Islamic scholars and Islamist political parties consider 'universal human rights' arguments as impositions of a non-Muslim culture on Muslim people, a disrespect of customary cultural practices and sexual codes that are central to Islam. Zina laws come under hudud – seen as a crime against Allah; the ...
In Islam, human sexuality is governed by Islamic law, also known as Sharia.Accordingly, sexual violation is regarded as a violation of moral and divine law. [1] Islam divides claims of sexual violation into 'divine rights' (huquq Allah) and 'interpersonal rights' (huquq al-'ibad): the former requiring divine punishment (hadd penalties) and the latter belonging to the more flexible human realm.
In contrast to human rights activists, Islamic scholars and Islamist political parties consider 'universal human rights' arguments as the imposition of a non-Muslim culture on Muslim people, a disrespect of customary cultural practices and sexual codes that are central to Islam. Zina laws come under hudud—seen as a crime against Allah; the ...
The intimate parts (Arabic: عورة 'awrah, ستر, satr) of the human body must, according to Islam, be covered by clothing.Most of modern Islamic scholars agree that the 'awrah of a man is the area between the navel and the knees, and the 'awrah of a woman is the entire body except the face, hand; exposing the 'awrah of the body is against Islamic law.
English: Consensual premarital sex (fornication) and sex outside marriage (adultery) is a crime in Sharia, deserving capital punishment in some cases. Many Muslim nations have legal codes (customary or criminal laws) against such consensual sex, where it is considered a religious crime against god (zina), and these can be tried by sharia courts.
[1] [not specific enough to verify] These include apostasy (leaving Islam to become an atheist or convert to another religion), [11] fasad (mischief in the land, or moral corruption against Allah, social disturbance and creating disorder within the Muslim state) [12] [13] and zina (consensual heterosexual or homosexual relations not allowed by ...
More worrisome for human rights and women's rights advocates, some lawyers and politicians, was the incarceration of thousands of rape victims on charges of zina. [61] Mixing the Pakistan penal code with Islamic laws was difficult because of the difference in the underlying logic of the two legal systems. [61]
A number of different words for sin are used in the Islamic tradition. According to A. J. Wensinck's entry on the topic in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Islamic terms for sin include dhanb and khaṭīʾa, which are synonymous and refer to intentional sins; khiṭʾ, which means simply a sin; and ithm, which is used for grave sins.