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How does Riba have anything to do with  a man marrying his mother?

 

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Answer:

 

Riba zina with mother

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 2826        Narrated by Abu Hurayrah

Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "Usury has seventy parts, the least important being that a man should marry his mother."

 

In no human culture, regardless of how low, or debased, or the depths of depravity it might have reached…..even amongst such a culture, for a man to marry and have sex with one own’s mother who gave him birth would be absolutely and totally despised, loathed, detested and abhorred by all amongst mankind!

 

The above quoted guidance of the Messenger of Allah (saws) simply compares the evident sin of ‘zina’ with one’s mother to the gravity of the sin of indulgence in ‘riba’ in the Sight of Allah Subhanah! 

 

Just as one absolutely and totally abhors and detests that one amongst men should marry their own mother, so should man detest and abhor indulgence in the evil of ‘riba’!  That is how serious and heinous a crime the indulgence in ‘riba’ is in the Sight of Allah Subhanah!

 

If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),   one can be assured of never ever being misled;   but if one believes, obeys and follows any other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be assured of being led astray.  

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

 

 

Burhan