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 "id": "concept/freedom-of-honour-in-islam",
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 "slug": "freedom-of-honour-in-islam",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الحرية في الأعراض",
  "en": "Freedom of honour in Islam"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "يرى محمد الخضر حسين أن الإنسان يحب أن يُحفظ عرضه من الطعن، وأن الشرع يجعل العرض كالدم واللحم في الحرمة، فلا يحل لأحد أن ينشر عيوب غيره المستورة {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 84} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}. ويستثني من ذلك ما يقتضيه درء المفسدة، كأن يُبيّن عيب الرجل لمن يعزم على معاملته أو مصاهرته نصيحة له {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 86}. ويستثني كذلك من أعلن فسقه وهتك ستره بنفسه، فلا يُعد ذكره غيبة على هذا النحو {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}. ويربط الكاتب بين قوة إرادة الإنسان في صون عرضه وارتفاع همته، وضعفها وانحطاطه {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 84}.",
  "en": "Muhammad al-Khidr Husayn holds that a person naturally wants his honour kept free from attack, and that the law treats honour as sacred as blood and flesh, so no one may spread another's hidden faults (pp. 84-85). He allows an exception where preventing harm requires it, such as disclosing a man's fault in sincere counsel to someone about to marry into his family or deal with him (pp. 85-86). He also excludes a person who has openly displayed his own wrongdoing, whose case is not backbiting in the same sense (p. 85). He links a strong will for guarding one's honour to a high aim, and a weak will to decline (p. 84)."
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  "rights-and-freedoms"
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  "kind": "ethical",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "محمد الخضر حسين، الحرية في الإسلام، مجمع البحوث الإسلامية، ص 84–86",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نظرة عامة",
     "markdown": "يرى محمد الخضر حسين أن الإنسان يحب أن يُحفظ عرضه من الطعن، وأن الشرع يجعل العرض كالدم واللحم في الحرمة، فلا يحل نشر عيوب الغير المستورة {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 84} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}. ويستثني ما يقتضيه درء المفسدة، كبيان عيب الرجل لمن يعزم على معاملته أو مصاهرته نصيحة له {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 86}، ومن أعلن فسقه وهتك ستره بنفسه فلا يُعد ذكره غيبة {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}. ويربط بين قوة إرادة الإنسان في صون عرضه وحرية المجتمع."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/freedom-of-honour-in-islam",
    "lang": "ar"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Muhammad al-Khidr Husayn holds that man loves to have his honor kept from defamation, and that the law makes honor as inviolable as blood and flesh: publishing another's concealed faults is unlawful {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 84} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}. The exception is what warding off harm requires — disclosing a man's fault to one set on dealing or intermarrying with him, as sincere advice {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 86} — and the man who proclaims his own sin and tears his own veil is not backbitten by mention {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}. He links a person's will to guard his honor with the community's freedom."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/freedom-of-honour-in-islam",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "جائزہ",
     "markdown": "محمد الخضر حسین کے نزدیک انسان چاہتا ہے کہ اس کی عِرض طعن سے محفوظ رہے، اور شرع عِرض کو خون و گوشت کی طرح حرمت میں رکھتا ہے — کسی کے چھپے عیوب شائع کرنا حلال نہیں {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 84} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}۔ استثنا وہ ہے جو مفسدہ روکنے کا تقاضا کرے — جیسے کسی سے معاملہ یا صلہ کرنے والے کو نصیحتاً عیب بتانا {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85} {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 86} — اور جو خود اپنا فسق اعلان اور اپنا پردہ چاک کرے اس کا ذکر غیبت نہیں {cite:al-hurriyya-fi-al-islam-azhar p. 85}۔ وہ عِرض کی حفاظت کی ارادی قوت کو معاشرے کی آزادی سے جوڑتے ہیں۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
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    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
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   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-10-22",
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  "concept/adl-wal-fadl",
  "concept/bayt-al-mal",
  "concept/causes-of-ownership",
  "concept/economic-freedom-in-islam",
  "concept/equality-in-islam",
  "concept/freedom-in-islam",
  "concept/freedom-of-property-in-islam",
  "concept/huquq-wal-wajibat"
 ],
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