Yesterday an article was published by the New York Post which informs us of the wishes of certain individuals to decriminalise consensual incest and the arguments put forth.
Let us have a read and analysis of this.
Here we see that appeal is made to the argument of them being consenting adults.
According to modern-day secular, and mostly western, belief, for a relationship/marriage to be acceptable, it must be according to their ideas of:
1. Consent
2. Adulthood
This are the reasons why same-sex relationships/marriages are completely acceptable according to such a belief system and worldview, as both are in fact present in same-sex relationships/marriages as both partners are adult and consenting.
.:Sayyidah Fātimah al-Zahrā'a the most superior?:.
صلي اللہ علی ابیہا وعلیہا وبعلہا وابنیہا وبارک وسلم
According to the agreed upon creed of Ahl al-Sunnah, the most superior to walk this earth after the Prophets علیہم السلام is Sayyidunā Abū Bakr al-Siddīq رضي اللہ عنہ.
The ijmāá of the Ahl al-Sunnah, i.e. the Ashárīs, Māturīdīs and Atharīs is upon this for centuries, any opinion which opposes this is not accepted, and is bidáh.
For detail regarding this issue, it is suggested to read the following fatwā.
Coming to the quote attributed to Imām Mālik, then if this quote is authentic, it is not to be understood to be overall and absolute superiority for Sayyidah Fātimah al-Zahrā'a, but rather as partial superiority.
According to the manuscript of Kaygawhar-nāmah, by Dūnīchand, held in St. Pancras, British Library, originally written in 1137 AH / 1724 CE, the earliest among my ancestors with the name Khan was Baj Khan or Bajlī Khan, who ascended to the rule of Potohar in 419 AH / 1028 CE
upon the passing of his father, Gakhar Shāh, who had gained control of the Potohar region and ruled over it for twenty eight years.
Regarding Baj/Bijlī Khan, it is mentioned:
After his passing away, Baj Khan became the ruler of the state in place of his respected father.
Sultan Mahmūd Shāh [Ghaznī] favoured Baj Khan with a robe of honour. On every occasion that Sultan Mahmūd returned from Hindustan, the Hindu kings would usually rebel, however the Gakhars did not permit anyone to enter their land, with strength and bravery.
“There was a man in the neighbourhood of Aĥmad ibn Ĥanbal, and he was from those who would engage in sin and filth. One day he came to the gathering of Aĥmad ibn Ĥanbal and greeted him.
It was as if Aĥmad did not return to him a complete greeting and he shrunk away from him. He said to him:
‘O Abū Ábdullāh, do not shrink away from me, for indeed, I came regarding that which I vowed regarding a dream I saw.’
He asked:
‘And what did you see?’
He replied:
‘I saw Nabī ﷺ during my sleep, as if he was at a height above the earth, and many people were sitting beneath him. Then, a man stood up and went to him, he began to say, Pray for me, thus he prayed for him, until there was none left other than me.
Imām Nawawī on seeking intercession of RasūlAllāh ﷺ at his blessed grave
The famous scholar Imam Yaĥyā Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī al-Shāfiýī [631-676 AH / 1233-1277 CE] encouraged visitors to seek intercession of RasūlAllāh ﷺ, something considered Shirk and Bidáh by Najdī Wahābīs.
He writes in Kitāb al-Majmūú:
Then he should return to his first standing place, facing the direction of RasūlAllāh ﷺ and make tawassul by him with regard to himself, and seek intercession by him to His Lord subhānahū wa táālā, and from the best of what he can say is what was
reported by Māwardī, Qādī Abū Tayyib, and all of our companions from Útbī, considering it good, he said:
“I was sitting near the grave of RasūlAllāh ﷺ, then came a bedouin, he said, ‘Peace be upon you Yā RasūlAllāh, I heard Allāh saying, “And if they, when they have wronged