Question
What is the ruling on the crime of rape in Islam?

Summary of answer
The punishment for rape in Islam is the same as the punishment for zina, which is stoning if the perpetrator is married, and one hundred lashes and banishment for one year if he is not married.

Answer in full
Praise be to Allah.

What is rape?
The Arabic word ightisab refers to taking something wrongfully by force. It is now used exclusively to refer to transgression against the honour of women by force (rape).

Rape is an abhorrent crime that is forbidden in all religions and in the minds of all wise people and those who are possessed of sound human nature. All earthly systems and laws regard this action as abhorrent and impose the strictest penalties on it, except a few states which waive the punishment if the rapist marries his victim! This is indicative of a distorted mind let alone a lack of religious commitment on the part of those who challenge Allah in making laws. We do not know of any love or compassion that could exist between the aggressor and his victim, especially since the pain of rape cannot be erased with the passage of time – as it is said. Hence many victims of rape have attempted to commit suicide and many of them have succeeded. The failure of these marriages is proven and they are accompanied by nothing but humiliation and suffering for the woman.

Rape in Islam
Islam has a clear stance which states that rape is haram and imposes a deterrent punishment on the one who commits it.
Islam closes the door to the criminal who wants to commit this crime. Western studies have shown that most rapists are already criminals who commit their crimes under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and they take advantage of the fact that their victims are walking alone in isolated places, or staying in the house alone. These studies also show that what the criminals watch in the media and the semi-naked styles of dress in which women go out, also lead to the commission of this reprehensible crime.

The laws of Islam came to protect women's honour and modesty. Islam forbids women to wear clothes that are not modest and to travel without a mahram; it forbids a woman to shake hands with a non-mahram man.

Islam encourages young men and women to marry early, and many other rulings which close the door to rape. Hence it comes as no surprise when we hear or read that most of these crimes occur in permissive societies which are looked up to by some Muslims as examples of civilization and refinement!

In America – for example – International Amnesty stated in a 2004 report entitled “Stop Violence Against Women” that every 90 seconds a woman was raped during that year. What kind of life are these people living? What refinement and civilization do they want the Muslim women to take part in?

Punishment for rape in Islam
The punishment for rape in Islam is same as the punishment for zina , which is stoning if the perpetrator is married, and one hundred lashes and banishment for one year if he is not married.

Some scholars also say that he is required to pay a mahr to the woman.

Imam Malik (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
“In our view the man who rapes a woman, whether she is a virgin or not, if she is a free woman he must pay a “dowry” like that of her peers, and if she is a slave he must pay whatever has been detracted from her value. The punishment is to be carried out on the rapist and there is no punishment for the woman who has been raped, whatever the case.” (Al-Muwatta, 2/734)

Shaykh Salman al-Baji (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
“In the case of a woman who is forced (raped): if she is a free woman, the one who forced her must pay her a “dowry” like that of her peers, and the hadd punishment is to be carried out on him. This is the view of al-Shafi’i, and it is the view of al-Layth, and it was also narrated from ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (may Allah be pleased with him).

Abu Hanifah and al-Thawri said: the hadd punishment is to be carried out on him but he is not obliged to pay the “dowry”. `

The evidence for what we say is that the hadd punishment and the “dowry” are two rights, one of which is the right of Allah and the other is the right of the other person. So they may be combined, as in the case of a thief whose hand is cut off and he is required to return the stolen goods.” (Al-Muntaha Sharh al-Muwatta’, 5/268, 269)

Ibn ‘Abd al-Barr (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
“The scholars are unanimously agreed that the rapist is to be subjected to the hadd punishment if there is clear evidence against him that he deserves the hadd punishment, or if he admits to that. Otherwise, he is to be punished (i.e., if there is no proof that the hadd punishment for zina may be carried out against him because he does not confess, and there are not four witnesses, then the judge may punish him and stipulate a punishment that will deter him and others like him). There is no punishment for the woman if it is true that he forced her and overpowered her, which may be proven by her screaming and shouting for help.” (Al-Istidhkaar, 7/146)

Secondly: Rape at knife-point or gun-point
The rapist is subject to the hadd punishment for zina, even if the rape was not carried out at knife-point or gun-point. If the use of a weapon was threatened, then he is a muhaarib, and is to be subjected to the hadd punishment described in the verse in which Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“The recompense of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and do mischief in the land is only that they shall be killed or crucified or their hands and their feet be cut off from opposite sides, or be exiled from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter.” [al-Maaidah 5:33]

So the judge has the choice of the four punishments mentioned in this verse, and may choose whichever he thinks is most suitable to attain the objective, which is to spread peace and security in society, and ward off evildoers and aggressors.

And Allah knows best.
https://islamqa.info/en/answers/72338/punishment-for-rape-in-islam

AntiChristian:


That's why 32 virgins was reserved for God in Numbers 31:40!

RightChanneI:
This is Numbers 31:40

And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.
Must you misinterprete the word of God just because you are protecting your satanic Islamic religion?

AntiChristian:


How do you interpret getting 16,000 virgins killing their families and giving God just 32!
Wetin God need virgins for?

RightChanneI:


Where did you see the word virgin been mentioned there?

Numbers 31:40

And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the LORD'S tribute was thirty and two persons.

AntiChristian:


Na me put am there!

Start from Numbers 31: 1, read to 40. You'll get the context!
You don't even need Holy Spirit to understand what happened!

RightChanneI:


Your religion is full of delusion, the same thing is manifesting in your life. Your religious leaders will only converge you inside a building, brainwashing you and telling you lies about the Holy Bible without conducting your own research. I'm so sorry for you and your likes!

This is Numbers 31:1-40 can you point out where virgin is been mentioned?


31 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

3 And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian.

4 Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

5 So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

6 And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.

8 And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

9 And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

10 And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.

11 And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

12 And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.

13 And Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them without the camp.

14 And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle.

15 And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

16 Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

19 And do ye abide without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify both yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

20 And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats' hair, and all things made of wood.

21 And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war which went to the battle, This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord commanded Moses;

22 Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

23 Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

24 And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

25 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

26 Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:

27 And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:

28 And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:

29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the Lord.

30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.

31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,

33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,

34 And threescore and one thousand asses,

35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand and five hundred sheep:

37 And the Lord'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the Lord'S tribute was threescore and twelve.

39 And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which the Lord'S tribute was threescore and one.

40 And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the Lord'S tribute was thirty and two persons.

AntiChristian:


Which false holy spirit reveal this one to you? What's the name of the religious leader? Where sis the venue?

AntiChristian:



Check out the Bolded red

RightChanneI:


Your Uthaz, Imams, Alfas, etc are they not your religious leaders that converge you inside a mosque or Arabic school in order to be brainwashed

The bolded red never mentioned VIRGINS, so where did you get your virgins you wanted to force into the Chapter? I laugh at your stupidity

AntiChristian:

Who are my ustadh and imams?
Where's the venue of the mosque we converge?

Dangerous generalization is akin to extreme foolishness!

AntiChristian:


You lack comprehension! Must I spell it out for you before you understand?

Read verse 18 and come back to argue blindly!

AntiChristian:

That's why 32 virgins was reserved for God in Numbers 31:40!

RightChanneI:


Well, I am not surprised seeing you denying your own people

If ignorance is bliss, you must be the happiest person on the planet!

How does verse 18 of that chapter has to do with the foolishness you displayed earlier?

You need to examine yourself very well, you must be suffering from brain tumor

Did God reserved 32 virgins for himself as read in Numbers 31:18?

AntiChristian:

I won't deny my "own people"! Even Peter denied Jesus three times despite being the rock on which his church would be built! Won't you deny a Celestial Church or Cherubim and Seraphim pastor too?

AntiChristian:

Na your Bible display the foolishness not me! Just as your Bible says god's foolishness is better than the wisdom of man!

AntiChristian:


That's why 32 virgins was reserved for God in Numbers 31:40!

AntiChristian:


18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

AntiChristian:


No be only brain tumor! I'm not surprised most of you guys lack comprehension! Just 40 verses and you can't comprehend things!

AntiChristian:


God was said to get a tribute of 32 virgins reserved for him in numbers 31:40.

AntiChristian:



The order not to kill virgins came in numbers 31:18. Everyone was to be killed except virgins! Numbers 31:17-18!