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, “being completely naked during the act of coitus annuls the marriage”.
But wait, all is not lost for the Egyptian Lothario.
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.
Raises the old arguement I had on this site as to whether the Muslims are stuck in the 7th century or the 12th.
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They must be the most sexually frustrated, naive and downtrodden people on the planet.
Don’t you feel sorry for the hormone overdosed teenagers. How terrible for them.
Reminds me of the story that I heard about a soldier who returned home to his wife after a long deployment.
A friend asked – So what is the first thing you did when you got home?
Answer – You know
What is the second thing you did?
Answer – Took off my backpack.
And after that?
Took off my boots.
So idiotic all this debate. Being a Muslim myself, I strongly believe and practise too that one should DO ALL that is required to satisfy yourself as well as your partner in bed. I doubt these clerics are ‘able’ to do anything otherwise they won’t be saying so and denying the pleasures of coitus as well all foreplay. Is there someone to stop them?
>> Is there someone to stop them?
You.