Quran 24:19 – Sad-e-Zaria,Fawahisha, Spreading/Promoting Fawahisha
Word ‘ Fawahish ‘ covers acts of sexual nature and has several applications in its broad sense as used in Quran 7:33 (See: Discussion 60441 • Reply 60476 ) In Quran 24:19 however, this word is used with specific application to adultery , but the crime for which punishment is mentioned is of Muharbah ( in accordance with Quran 5:33-34 ). When a group of people who flout the law of the country in an organized way and start spreading rumours of adultery about pious men and women with explicit imagery ( in a planned and organized way ), thus attacking honour and repute of others in an active and aggressive way, then they are no doubt committing fasad-fil-arz and state may take action against them and try them in court under muharbah. This has nothing to do with media in general. What turkish media is doing and the kind of content it is creating and promoting is the kind being watched by public in general. This is something which reflects moral depreciation of a collectively society and requires education about religion at a societal level.