{"id":18122,"date":"2026-05-20T00:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=18122"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:37:35","slug":"can-committing-suicide-to-escape-rape-be-justified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=18122","title":{"rendered":"Can Committing Suicide to Escape Rape Be Justified?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11107\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-faith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Can-Committing-Suicide-to-Escape-Rape-Be-Justified.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11107\" class=\"wp-image-11107 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.the-faith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Can-Committing-Suicide-to-Escape-Rape-Be-Justified-300x200.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Can Committing Suicide to Escape Rape Be Justified\u061f\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If a woman is sexually harassed by the rapists, she has the right to defend herself.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Muslim woman should try her best to stick to the teachings of Islam and abide by the Islamic decorum, especially when dealing with people of the opposite sex.<\/p>\n<p>If a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/muslim-lifestyle\/family-and-society\/why-doesnt-islam-allow-a-woman-to-have-more-than-a-husband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">woman<\/a> is sexually harassed by the rapists, she has the right to defend herself.\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/prophet-muhammad\/prophet-manners\/loving-the-prophet-muhammad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prophet<\/a> (peace and blessings be upon him) is reported to have said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>\u201cWhoever is killed in defense of his property is a martyr, whoever is killed in defense of himself is a martyr, whoever is killed in defense of his religion is a martyr, and whoever is killed in defense of his family is a martyr.\u201d<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnah.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ahmad and Ibn Hibban<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>However, she is not allowed to kill herself under any circumstances because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/muslim-lifestyle\/values-of-islam\/islams-take-on-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suicide<\/a> is\u00a0prohibited. The only One Who knows the Unseen is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/acts-of-worship\/hajj\/hajj-trusting-promise-allah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Allah<\/a>. She never knows what will be the outcome of their criminal attempt; they may fail in carrying out their devilish plan.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining this, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/muslim-lifestyle\/women-in-islam\/secrets-muslim-woman-12\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muslim woman<\/a> is faced with two possibilities: (1) she is prone to being subjected to rape or sexual assault and (2) this may drive her to committing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/islam-in-the-world\/human-rights\/what-does-god-say-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suicide<\/a>, a forbidden act.<\/p>\n<p>Here we can imagine the occurrence of two harms, one of them, relating to suicide, is certain, while the other, relating to her being subjected to rape, is something possible, but not certain.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, in this case, committing suicide is not permissible.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, we have to weigh the harmful effect of suicide to that of rape or sexual assault. The latter is endurable unlike the former.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, preserving one\u2019s soul is among the necessities of life, whereas other objectives, such as preserving one\u2019s chastity, come in the second degree among the fundamental goals that Islam is keen to realize.<\/p>\n<p>Thereby, it is not permissible for a woman, a victim of rape, to commit suicide.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <\/span><\/em>IslamOnline Archive<a href='https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/can-committing-suicide-to-escape-rape-be-justified\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, she is not allowed to kill herself under any circumstances because suicide is\u00a0prohibited. The only One Who knows the Unseen is Allah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4189,2404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-the-faith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}