Let me correct my mistake. I agree that if a person has sinned but has repented, they can cover their sins and keep quiet about it. It's like they've never committed the sin at all. However, if asked about his sexual past, I do believe that his partner has the right to know about it.
Wallahi I am not trying to demean you in any way.
However, it is obligatory to conceal one's sins. It is not an option- it is obligatory. Even if someone asks you, you should not reveal your sins.
It is a sin to reveal your sins.
Does his partner have a right to know? Frankly, she doesn't.
Where do her rights or any of our rights come from?
Do they come from Thomas Jefferson, Geneva Conventions, UN human rights declarations, John Locke, Rousseau, George Washington, national constitutions, the Declaration of Independence?
The concept of rights is a serious topic. Peopoe have killed and die over that subject. Wars have been fought over it. Much blood and ink have been spilled over it.
You cite the concept of someone's rights.
When I was in school, we learned about the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence says "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness."
In all honesty, I think the loyalists were in the right and I think the "patriots" under George Washington were a dangerous terrorist element who should have been crushed and who were in the wrong.
I think it was immoral to tar and feather people to terrorize innocent people into going along with the "patriots". I believe the "patriots" were terrorists and I think Britain djould have crushed them. I think it is an unjustice that we are not taught about the cruel treatment of the loyalists who were persecuted simply for their loyalty to their monarch and for opposition to mob rule.
I don't believe in the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence.
However, my point is that even those people recognized where our rights come from- our rights come from our Creator, from Allah.
They were correct in that assertion. We have to rule by what Allah has revealed
And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed - then it is those who are the disbelievers.
-Surah Al-Ma'idah 5:44
Abu Hurayrah said: I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “All of my ummah will be forgiven except those who sin openly. It is a part of sinning openly when a man does something at night, then the following morning when Allaah has concealed his sin, he says, ‘O So and so, I did such and such last night,’ when all night his Lord has concealed him and the next morning he uncovers what Allaah had concealed.”
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 5721; Muslim, 2990).
It is a sin to reveal one's sins.
Our rights come from Allah.
No one has a right to have us tell them our sins. Such a right does not exist.
We have to rule by what Allah has revealed. We cannot make up our own ideas and then rule based on our own ideas in contradiction to what Allah has revealed.