Islam_in_Focus_text

i s a broken heart here or there, and probably a broken home
too.
Problems of this kind are not imaginary or even rare.
They are common among people. Newspapers deal from
time to tirne with such problems. Court files also bear wit-
ness to this fact. The act of man in this respect may be called
mean, irnmoral, indecent, vicious, etc. Granted! But does
this help? Does it change the fact or alter human nature? The
act is done, an offense is committed repeatedly, and an acute
problem is calling for a practicable and decent solution.
Should the lawmakers satisfy themselves with an outright
condemnation of such a man and his acts? Should they let
him ruin his own integrity and destroy the moral foundations
of society? Should they allow hypocrisy and immorality to
replace honesty and faithfulness? Outright prohibition and
condemnation have not stopped some men from committing
the offense or quickened their conscience. On the contrary,
they have made room for hypocrisy, secret infidelity and ir-
responsibility in the face of which the law and lawmakers
are helpless.
Now Islam cannot be helpless. It cannot compromise on
moral standards or tolerate hypocrisy and infidelity. It can-
not deceive itself or man by false and pretended satisfac-
tions. Nor can Islam deny the existence of the problem or
simply resort to outright condemnation and prohibition, be-
cause that does not even minimize the harm. To save a man
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