Severity Of Sins – Comparing Adultery With Backbiting
Both are sins in their own right, and are not comparable as such. Please note that all such narrations that randomly compare different sins with each other in this fashion are typically fake and fabricated, and they are purported to convey a disproportionate and exaggerated severity of one sin (typically a more minor sin, relatively). For example, there is another famous but fabricated narration that likens riba to having Zina with one of the close relatives. This is a typical kind of content fabricated by early story-tellers to sell unfounded religious opinions. There is no sense in comparing backbiting with Zina. “ Mutual consensual premarital intimate relationship in a culture that has absolutely no problem with such deeds, this is not a crime there ” is still Zina and thus, haram. There is no excuse for Zina and premarital intimate relationship. Please remember that source of religious guidance is Quran as it is a complete, fully detailed and perfect book (16:89, 6:114, 12:111, 7:52, 10:37), not hearsay traditions (45:6). Any “ narration ruling” that steps outside the scope of Quran and poses as a religious content is void ab initio and a work of devil.