No nudity for sex'
09/01/2006 14:56 - (SA)
Cairo - An Egyptian cleric's controversial fatwa claiming that nudity during sexual intercourse invalidates a marriage has uncovered a rift among Islamic scholars.
According to the religious edict issued by Rashad Hassan Khalil, a former dean of Al-Azhar University's faculty of Sharia (or Islamic law), "being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage".
The religious decree sparked a hot debate on the private satellite network Dream's popular religious talk show and on the front page of Sunday's Al-Masri Al-Yom, Egypt's leading independent daily newspaper.
Suad Saleh, who heads the women's department of Al-Azhar's Islamic studies faculty, pleaded for "anything that can bring spouses closer to each other" and rejected the claim that nudity during intercourse could invalidate a union.
During the live televised debate, Islamic scholar Abdel Muti dismissed the fatwa: "Nothing is prohibited during marital sex, except of course sodomy."
For his part, Al-Azhar's fatwa committee chairman Abdullah Megawar argued that married couples could see each other naked but should not look at each other's genitalia and suggested they cover up with a blanket during sex.
3 comments:
You know...I thought I'd been married for 35+ years and now I find out that the marriage was annulled the first night?
I hope the idiots that think this stuff up get both their male bits removed and their eyes removed so they have no temptations. It'd serve them right.
I was talking to the Muslim women at work yesterday once again about the burqha and hajib, and the ladies I work with who refuse the garb said that in their opinion, male imagination knows what's under all those covers anyway and can get aroused, so what's the difference?
Good point, that.
Thats so far beyond idiotic, I don't even have a term for it!
Control with a capital "C", no doubt. Just makes me count my blessings that I'm where I am...
Thanks for stopping by and commenting btw - much appreciated :)
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