Assalamu-alaikum,
It saddens me to see fellow muslims try to justify that, which we are clearly warned against by Allah (subhanawatála) and His messenger (sallahu alaihi wasalam).
Please inform me which part of the following article is necessary for muslims to be informed of?
Perhaps read it again, and tell me what differentiates us from sleazy tabloids and gossip-columns??
Again, I will ask: Is this the way a MUSLIM conducts himself - by even entertaining the PRIVATE affairs of others - be they muslim or non-muslim.
Stephen Hawking may be confined to a wheelchair, but that doesn't seem to keep him from making the rounds. The celebrated astrophysicist is a regular at a sex club in California, according to media reports.
The 70-year-old, almost completely paralyzed by a neurological disorder known as motor neurone disease, frequents a San Bernadino "swinger's club" called Freedom Acres, a long-time member of the club told Radar Online.
"I have seen Stephen Hawking at the club more than a handful of times," the member told the celebrity site. "He arrives with an entourage of nurses and assistants. Last time I saw him, he was in the back 'play area' lying on a bed fully clothed with two naked women gyrating all over him."
Does Hawking really like lap dances? Not so fast, a University of Cambridge press officer told the Cambridge News.
"Lurid statements appeared on a website in America, but they are not true," Tim Holt told the paper. "This report is greatly exaggerated. He visited once a few years ago with friends while on a visit to California."
Twice divorced and the father of three, Hawking is director of research at the university's Center for Theoretical Cosmology and a well-known expert on black holes and the Big Bang. He earned worldwide fame with his 1988 best-seller "A Brief History of Time," though he made another big media bang last January when he called women "a complete mystery."
The center is "devoted to the development and testing of fundamental theories of the universe," according to its website.
And Freedom Acres? Its website calls it "one of the most dynamic and largest on premise Swinger club in the Los Angeles and Orange County with an active member list of couples and single ladies."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...lws-main-nb|dl7|sec1_lnk3&pLid=139267#s592662
We are stating the facts on the news not concocting them!
My dear sister, please understand that not everything we read on-line/ or the news are facts.
If this entire article was concocted - please tell me, how would you know?
Where you there to witness it......before deciding to spread such news to the rest of us?
And in the event that this story is false - do we realise that we are partaking in slandering a person? - WHY?.....Because he is an atheist?
Perhaps we forget that he lives in an unislamic state - where each man is free to his/ her beliefs - just as a muslim is, living in such a land.
Does Islam not call for tolerance towards each other, and teaches us that there is no compulsion in religion?
Do we expect tolerance towards us, yet we are not willing to treat others the same?
And his deeds and character are indeed of relevance as they often are when one mixes science with philosophy and presents his personal conviction as if an authority to lead the masses astray -- he doesn't seem ashamed of his actions why should we be ashamed for him? Google fatwas do nothing for me in that regard or generally!
Sister, this is called justifying our actions of gheebat.
Please read my 2nd post here - referring to back-biting about non-muslims.......this is not a 'Google fatwa', but that of a very respectable scholar in this field - Mufti Ebrahim Desai (Askimam.org) - if we cannot respect the advices of even those who are far more knowledgable than us in this field, then this is truly sad.
To all here - I dont think its very difficult to understand this:
If we are speaking negatively about someone (e.g President Baashir, Ghadaffi, etc etc) - with the intention of protecting others from HARM, or to protect and defend this DEEN - then Alhamdulillah - this is our duty.
Im afraid the supposed bedroom secrets of others do not fall into this category - no matter how much we wish to justify it.
If this were so,should we perhaps start threads about the intimate lives and indiscretions of Tom Cruise (who promotes Scientology) or Oprah (who promotes everything that goes against Islam), etc. We can develop just as many reasons why this may seem justifiable....
And, i will repeat this blessed ayat:
“O you who believe!
Avoid much suspicion, in deeds some suspicions are sins.
And spy not neither backbite one another.
Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it (so hate backbiting). And fear Allah, verily, Allah is the one who accepts repentance, Most Merciful” (Al-Hujuraat 49: 12)
You're welcome not to partake in this thread- I myself try to skip out on the cat and other social threads as I feel them of no relevance on an Islamic forum
Im sorry sister - this is an Islamic forum......and many here are expecting conversations to be held bearing our Quraan and Sunnah in mind.
There should be no reason, not to partake in threads if the above is respected by all, insha Allah.
Im not sure what is sadder - to see muslims engaged in heedless back-biting on an islamic forum.......or to see them trying to defend such actions.
May Allah guide us all.
Ameen
Salaam
