Thus, listening, looking, and speaking in this regard are forms of zina. Zina is among the immoral deeds, and Allah does not command immorality. Allah Most High does not command anyone to worship Him and draw near to Him by keeping company with handsome beardless youths, looking at them, listening attentively to their words, or anything similar.

“Do you say about Allah what you do not know?”
Surah al-A‘rāf 7:28

Rather, He has forbidden immoral deeds, whether committed openly or in secret. If someone commits these immoral deeds while believing them to be forbidden, he is among the Muslims of whom the Prophet—may Allah bless him and grant him peace—said in the hadith of Abū Dharr:

“Whoever dies without associating anything with Allah will enter Paradise, even if he committed zina and even if he stole.”

For a Muslim who commits an immoral deed may either repent to Allah and seek His forgiveness, thus coming under His words:

“And those who, when they commit an immoral deed or wrong themselves, remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins—and who can forgive sins except Allah?—and do not knowingly persist in what they have done. Their reward is forgiveness from