In his newest look on Lunch with Lillas, actor Hamza Ali Abbasi has spoken candidly about adultery, marriage, and religion — subjects he has by no means shied away from addressing publicly. The episode, launched final week on YouTube, sees Abbasi problem the notion that marriage can “repair” infidelity or curb need.
“The urge to have one thing exterior of marriage doesn’t finish after re-marrying,” he stated. “You possibly can have 4 wives and nonetheless be untrue. A person who marries solely for that reason will finally get tired of his new spouse too. Everybody ought to search to finish this inherent urge in them if they’ve it.”
The actor additional mirrored on how Muslims, particularly, ought to take adultery critically as a carnal sin that calls for self-accountability past marital standing. “Adultery is likely one of the 5 biggest sins in Islam,” he stated. “God made just one Eve for Adam.” In response to Abbasi, Islam permits 4 marriages solely in distinctive circumstances. “Males would have numerous wives earlier than that. Islam put a restrict of 4 and has said in the identical Ayat that it is best to attempt to marry solely as soon as as you gained’t be capable to do justice to a couple of spouse.”
His feedback arrive months after an outdated clip of him discussing the “4 marriages” debate resurfaced on-line. In that interview, Abbasi had clarified that the allowance for a number of marriages in Islam was a contextual response throughout wartime, meant to supply safety and stability — not a licence for polygamy or ‘womanising.’ The video trended extensively at a time when the controversy over males’s proper to a number of marriages reignited, following a sure actor’s on-air declaration — made in entrance of his spouse — that he was entitled to marry extra girls however was “filhaal” content material together with his present partner.
In the course of the Lunch with Lillas dialog, Abbasi additionally spoke about rising up round unbiased, working girls. “All girls in my life are working girls and my sister is likely one of the most profitable dermatologists on the earth. That’s the key to my glowing pores and skin,” he joked. His mom is a Supreme Court docket lawyer, and his spouse, actor and artist Naimal Khawar, runs her personal cosmetics firm. “Working girls can grow to be a power for males,” he stated. “It provides me psychological peace that if one thing occurs to me tomorrow, they may care for themselves. Males ought to respect them and think about them as a security web moderately than a menace.”
Abbasi, who has typically shared his non secular journey publicly, printed his second e book Meri Daryafat: Allah, Islam Aur Akhrat Ki Justaju Essential earlier this 12 months, exploring his evolving understanding of faith, morality, and the self.
