Is Sadd E Zariya Law Related To Probabilities?
@UmerQureshi Sir can you please help me in one thing, I have a question regarding relation of An act which has a probability of leading to a major sin, committing such act being minor sin in itself And the mathematical probability, a person maps in his mind I’ll just use an example for explanatory purpose; Ahmad for suppose has a data about people indulging in Backbiting (this thing only happens when a conversation between humans happen). He sees that an average Muslim indulges in backbiting 1 out of every 20 conversations the man does with their friend/cousin/relative. for a pious Muslim nowadays, it’s about 1 in every 50 conversations. The stats vary from individual to individual sometimes 1/3 sometimes 1/60. for Ahmad himself it is about 1/30, that he calculated Had the meetups not happened, the sin of backbiting won’t happen, as it’s door is actually meetups between humans Now when he was about to marry a girl. he suddenly realizes, that marrying this girl means having new relationships with her family. which inevitably means that he will have to attend their invitations, meetups, dawats and visiting them and their coming to his house. which if is extended throughout his life, would mean 1000+ instances of meetups and conversations. Now keeping in mind the stats presented above (in average 30 meetups, he did one backbiting), but now it’s like 1000+ meetups (which means risk of 33+ instances of backbiting). all happening if he marries her. (even if it’s not 33+, and even if he tries to improve things a lot, he’ll still be at high risk of committing at least 25 instances of backbiting) so now he concludes that, me marrying her => inevitable high risk of many instances(25+) of backbiting. Ahmad looking at this started to think in the lines of sadd e zariya principle and started to think that me marrying her is a minor sin. because here, just a one instance of marriage will result in 25+ instances of backbitings. Is Ahmad correct to conclude that his marrying to this girl, a minor sin? This was just about Backbiting, we can place many other major sins in its place A normal person might not think this deep, but a person with a deep fine detail thinking mind can easily discover, simple probabilities like above in different scenarios Now coming to my question, I understand that no one considers ‘marrying’ a minor sin in above case, despite knowing all the risks as I mentioned above. and these risks would have been present in times of prophet as well but he did not prohibit from them, this gives a hint that it’s not a minor sin. But I can’t deny the simple fact of probability the above example presents, that marrying her = many instances of backbitings. point of view of sadde zariya principle, says that this is minor sin. but then again, this would eventually lead to Rehbaniyat (as this not only applies to marriage, it can be applied numerous things which inevitably expose us to having relations with people), which is also not required in Deen. How can the contradiction be resolved? (the solution that came in my mind was that only the things that are directives of Allah or his messengers, based on sadde zariya, their intentional violations would be minor sins. apart from that, such cases of probabilities are not minor sins even if there’s clear mathematical probability like above provided that the act is halal in itself. such an explanation really settles the contradiction)