Committing zina to cure a mental illness

Q: Is there any excuse for committing zina? I'm suffering from different kind of mental diseases and I feel like zina would help me overcoming them.

A: No. It will make it worse. A haraam cannot be a cure. Rather the haraam itself is a disease.

And Allah Ta'ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

 

Answered by:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)