RE: Women Fights for Equality in W.VA Mosque

salam,

premarital sex ... i don't mean casual sex, but people who have sex while they are in long term relationships or exclusively dating or whatever... without being 'married.' i don't believe in casual sex... for the simple sake that it is psychologically and physically risky... :)

i don't know about any other faith, but in islam, it seems marriage and paternity are connected. for example, a muslim couple are not divorced until the wife goes through three cycles of menstruation (i.e, three months) ... just to make sure :) (btw, this is a direct qur'anic law found in sura baqarah or chapter 2.)

we have 'marriage first' because men were denying women they empregnated, (i read somewhere that this goes back to israelites in egypt) etc... and this was to make sure the society -- or at least representative of society (two witnesses) -- "knows"("nikah")

the rest things that muslim societies coin to marriage and sex are just pure cultural. in somalia, where i'm from, sex is perceived differently than -- say -- pakistan or saudi arabia, and vise-versa, while all of these societies have majority of muslims.

afdhere

Afdhere Jama
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HURIYAH Publications
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>From: "Kate Ahmad" >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] Women Fights for Equality in W.VA Mosque >Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:46:52 +1100 > >Salaam! >Now I am shocked! You believe pre marital sex is OK? I see your >point about paternity, but I dont think this is the only reason that >we have marriage first in Islam. I think that knowing the father is >only one aspect - what about having a father too? Family is the >basic building block of society, and single motherhood is not the >same. So I believe we should aspire to marriage and sex within its >bounds only. That said though - I dont judge people who make >mistakes, although you have to worry if they make the same mistake >over and over. >Wa'sa
laam >Aisha > > >>From: "Afdhere Jama" >>Reply-To: [email protected] >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: RE: [Progressivemuslimsnetwork] Women Fights for Equality >>in W.VA Mosque >>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:11:54 -0800 >> > >_________________________________________________________________ >Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to >http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/default.asp ><< message3.txt >>

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