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thabet
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razib, murtad fitri
over at scienceblogs i have a post, Sharia friendly prostitution (re: misyar). a commenter notes:
This just proves your ignorance of the Islamic laws. From what I’ve understood Misyar to be I conclude:
Misyar or even mutah are not prostitution because the girl has to observe the iddah period, about 4 months without sex. Prostitutes use regular sex to get money to live on. Misyar is not a regular means of obtaining money. Misyar is a legal marriage.
Secondly, the girl needs permission from her parents to marry… I wouldn’t call that prostitution.
Third, the Misyar marriage is legally registered by the state.
Fourth, if you think the involvement of money is the factor that makes it prostitution then the mahr, a dowry given to the wife by the husband in a regular marriage, should also be seen as paying for sex.
Both male and female enter into the marriage knowing their rights and expectations so they know what will eventually happen and they are fine with it otherwise they wouldn’t have signed the agreement.
What really annoys me is that you look down upon the law of God (not man’s law) and ignore the filth that ensues in godless countries. For shame
the only thing i would add is that a legalistic definition of prostitution is i think too narrow. there are many ways to prostitute yourself, male or female, sexual or non-sexual. i’m not a religious person, but i agree with st. paul that one can follow the letter of a law but not the spirit.
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willow
Egypt’s Dar al Ifta legalizes misyar. I did not see this coming. So…what *is* fornication anyway, if putting a bismillah in front of no-strings-attached sex makes it halal?
Are we seeing the end of impermissible sex in Islam? And they say we’re not progressive…
