Punishment for Rape from Religious Perspectives: Islamic Insight

Authors: Zubair, Sulaiman Shittu PhD; Situ, Waheed Adeyemi PhD; Odeniyi, Ismail Kolawole PhD

Affiliation: Department of Islamic Studies, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Ondo State

Corresponding Author: [email protected]

December 31, 2025

SIAR-Global Journal of Humanities, Management & Educational Review

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18110751

Punishment for Rape from Religious Perspectives: Islamic Insight

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Rape, an offensive crime against humanity, is an abominable sin in Islam. It is considered by Muslim jurists as an act of hiraba (terrorism). Globally, rape has constituted one of the greatest problems. Its regular occurrences in recent time have created unnecessary disturbances in the country. This informed the need to look at the punishments for rapists from Nigerian and Islamic laws with a bid to create awareness on the punishment. The study employed historical research to bring out its findings. The study opined that rape is a violation of moral and divine law and that threat or deprivation of some necessities is the tool employed by the rapists. It found out that stigmatization, gynecological complication, vaginal bleeding and infection are some of the effects of rape while lack of due awareness on the punishment for rapists was identified as the major cause. Findings also categorised punishment for rape into three (3): hadd of hiraba - stoning to death or 100 strokes of cane, hadd of hiraba - killing or hanging or cutting of hand and leg oppositely cutting of hand and leg alternately and ta’zil - discretionary penalty. The paper recommended proper management of rape case by the government, decent dressing by female children as well as concrete and effective awareness on rape prevalence as solutions to the wave of rape in modern time. The paper then concluded that any sort of clothes which lacks decency should be avoided by female women.

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Rape, Islamic perspective, textual insight, hiraba, ta’zil

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Zubair, Sulaiman Shittu PhD; Situ, Waheed Adeyemi PhD; Odeniyi, Ismail Kolawole PhD (2025). Punishment for Rape from Religious Perspectives: Islamic Insight. SIAR-Global Journal of Humanities, Management & Educational Review, Vol. 1, No. 2. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18110751

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