Quran Lessons

This is Our Religion, Pt. 9



The Nature of Life
Between a Man and a Woman

Is sexual instinct something dirty provoked by Satan?

Some people think so and they think that suppressing this instinct for sex will get them closer to God.
So they regarded monasticism an elegant degree of human�s elevations and a big sign of love for God and the seeking of His blessing.


Islam in its turn refuses such thinking in addition to all that might result from it.
It is the religion of instinct and it protects the human nature rather than suppresses it.
Islam views sexual desire in the same way it views desire for food.
This desire is undeniable but fulfilling it needs some thought also what it feeds on should be Halal not Haram (lawful not forbidden), and clean not dirty.

Man�s quest for food is understandable but it is from Allah�s rights on him not to eat dead animals, blood, pigs�etc.
It is also from Allah�s rights on him that even if allowed food existed he shouldn�t earn it by cheating, stealing or any other similar ways.

The same applies to sexual desire.
Islam doesn�t look strangely at its movement, nor it says that it is a kind of worship to neglect it, rather Islam draws a certain method to fulfill it and puts boundaries for it to move within.

If the kind and Halal were available then no embarrassment would be in all its manners. And in the same way one starts eating his food by mentioning Allah�s name, he does the same when he starts a sexual intercourse with a spouse.

If a good intention were added to these usual actions these in turn transform - while being desires- into a kind of accepted worships.

The majority of Muslim scholars consider marriage a kind of obedience to Allah. They even place it right after Zakat (charity) and Hajj (pilgrimage) in their books of research.

Some people - in the time of the Prophet pbuh- tried to make monasticism a religion and tried to abstain from marriage as a kind of worship �for people of cold desires�.
People of other religions might have influenced them in this trend, but when the Prophet pbuh heard about them he denied it completely because such a behavior would be an abstinence from a natural physical desire.
If theoretically we supposed that it is a struggle against a strong innate desire, then success in suppressing it would be a victory in a battle without a value and Allah�s acceptance would not be achieved by it.

Some personal and social consequences could become devastating to the people who abstain from it and the society they live in. For this reason marriage is considered one of Islam�s Su�nnen (ways) and a sign of Eeman (faith).


Anas Bin Malik (a companion of the prophet pbuh) narrated that a group of men came to the houses of the Prophet�s wives to ask about his worship. When they were told about it they seemed as if they found it not much so they said:
What is our place in comparison to the Prophet pbuh since Allah has forgiven all his sins?
One of them said: I will pray all the nights ever.
Another said: I will fast all my days ever.
And the other said I will abstain from women and I will never marry ever.
The Prophet pbuh came to them and said, �Are you the people who said so and so�I swear by Allah that I am the most fearful of Allah among all of you, but I fast and break, pray and sleep, and marry women. Whoever diverts from my Sunna (way) then he is not from me (my nation).� (Bukhari)

Anas (a companion) narrated that the Prophet pbuh said, � Whoever Allah blesses him by a kind woman then He has aided him on half of the religion so let him fear Allah in the other half.� (Al-Tabrani)




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In the same manner Islam refuses monasticism it also denies immorality, primping and letting sexual desires go all the way seeking fulfillment for all that they can�t find.

The fact we want to stress here, and have confirmed earlier is that adultery is a major sin and an ugly abomination.

Islam barricades all the roads that might reach to this sin and places those who are thieves of honor and sex beggars in the same degree as murderers and highway robbers.

The struggle would always remain between us and those who are propagandists of western civilization, as long as they keep viewing the deviations of sexual desire in a cold, quiet and careless way.

Islam responds to the needs of the body and might provide recreation and amusement for it right after providing the necessities of life.
Any kind of expansion in lawful things has no harm unless it changes into extravagance and waste.
People don�t tend to eat food that equals the calories their bodies need rather they would consume more and more but going along with the desires of stomach is something that religion dislikes and alienates people from and considers it something against sense of honor.

So what would you say of those who fascinate others in the art of spreading tables of food, appetizing the stomachs, and filling them beyond their capacity?
Even if this were done from private money and from one�s own earnings it would be considered a waste that threaten to fear severe consequences both in this life and the hereafter.

How then if it were done from unlawful money?
Or was taken by theft and violation?

So is the case with the sexual desire.

Some are dissatisfied by cooling it down with what is allowed by Allah, but we find them fill the air with sexual stimulants that would provoke the desire even if it had settled down and they try make it hungry even if it were fulfilled.

They use women�s adornment and involving her in every field as a dirty means for such deliberate seduction.
Desire would never cool down when it undergoes this constant seduction.
And when constant refreshing is something easy to do so why not do it?
As a result, the flames of animalistic natures would blaze and become hard to harness especially when the hearts are empty from the abstaining certainty and the protecting from sins and fear arousing Faith.

Allah Almighty has explained that apparent places of charm are allowed to be shown.
The exposure of these places - the face and the hands- makes hiding them something hard to do.
As for the inner places of charm, the Quran has counted kinds of people who are allowed to see them.

From this counting revealed by the revelation one can how forbidden it is for the woman to expose her charms to other than those included in the verse:
Allah said, after ordering the belieivers to hold their looks and preserve their private places:
And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands' fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments. And O ye Believers! Turn ye all together towards Allah, that ye may attain Bliss. [24:31]

For women draw their veils over their bosom means to let the scarf cover the area of the neck and the upper chest and with that the woman is covered from above.
Then she should walk straight and try not to show her charms from under.
The meaning of this direction and limiting the number of men who are allowed to see her inner charms means that anything beyond that is forbidden.

What's happening now in parties, on beaches, and in the streets is totally wrong and Islam doesn't accept any of it more or less.

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The world is drowned in outrageous sexual sins.

The first cause of these sinns is ignoring the law of Allah in the relationship between a Man and a Woman.

Frankly speaking, Islam denies this mingling between young men and women in dancing places where they swift and move under the title of "acceptable sport."
The Prophet pbuh said, " It is better for one of you to be stapped with a spear in his hand than to touch a woman who is forbidden on him." (Tabarani)

Islam also denies these suspicious private meetings between men and women and refuses any justification to what those who are astray from honor and virtue do.

The Prophet pbuh said, "Don't ever stay alone with another woman unless there is someone of her relatives with you."

And said, " Whenever a man is alone with another woman then Satan would be the third of them." (Al-Monzari)

It is not acceptable by the name of love or admiration or any other cause that the expresssions of admiration be exchanged, or kisses between a man and a woman be made because this would be a serious preface for evil and a fast slipp towards a crime.

Islam has warned against the preliminary acts of adultery and gave them the same name of the sin itself.
A rude eye searching for forbidden things to see is an adultress eye.
A dirty hand that touches and feels forbidden bodies is an adultress hand, and whoever does any of these acts is enevitably sinful.

Abi Hurairah narrated that the Prophet pbuh said, " It is written on the Son of Adam his share of adultry and he is going to take it enevitably.
The eye commits adultry by looking, the ears by hearing, the tongue by talking, the hand by hitting, the feet by steps to evil doing, the heart by desiring and longing and the private places they either verify all that or deny it." (Bukhari)

In a narration to (Muslim), " The hands commit adultry by being unjust, the feet by walking and the mouth by kissing."

The meaning of (Allah has written on the Son of Adam...) is that Allah has counted every sense of the soul and movement of the body if these movements and feeling cotained an evil intention and a desiring inclination.

Allah Almighty has appointed for each of these acts its share of penalty so wherever one moves with the intention of evil then his share of penalty would be written upon him and his punishment would get him without escape.

This strictness is meant to close the pathways of crime because the psychological preliminary feeling towards adultry are known only to the One who knows all the secrets alone.

These feelings if completed and organized then they would lead to a secret or apparent result that might cause Allah's anger and cause corruption to the nations.

People's going back to their early ignorance days following this track is so easy no matter how developed a civilization is and how much science they it was able to achieve.

How simple they would find an excuse to the nature's whims and how fast would they slip into the halls of sins!

In front of me - while writing these lines- some headlines printed in Al-Ahram newspaper that says " She takes off her clothes in a charity auction."

For the first time in the history of the British "Civilized Society" a party for raising money for charity would go out of its respect!

For the first time in the history of this community - as reported by the paper- a big charity fund raising would contain a program of the programs provided by the Prisian "night clubs". Performed by a famouds french dancer called " Miss Niffer".

She was asked by the organizing committee to stand before the audiences fully clothed then take them off peice by piece until She stands before them as naked as the day she was born.

She would stay foot until the committee finishes selling all the clothes she took off in a public auction each piece separate from the other.

You still have to know that this committee responsible for the auction holds more than one lady of " the upper class" and the party would be attended by more than a "Duke", a �Sir� or a Lord...among them is the Amirican Ambassador in London...
The party is held for the sake of the refugees "The Europeans of course".


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We�d like to point out that there are a lot of nations who conspire on forgetting Allah and for the tearing down of His prohibitions. They even publicly call for that all over the world.

Allah said:
Why do not the Rabbis and the doctors of law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works. [6:63]

We in our turn warn these kinds of people from attempting to seduce our nation into following this path and trying to divert it from its efforts by spreading that this social break down is civilization and prosperity or that it is the manner of the people of civilization and prosperity.


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