Oriental erotica

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The Korán contains two precepts relating to physical love and the unión of the couple which have, over the centuries, been central to Muslim thinking on the subject. The first ofthem is as follows: "Your wives are for you a pleasure, as you are for them " (II, 187); "Your wives are for you like a field. Cultivate it as you will, having first performed somé act of piety" (II, 223). This means that Islam allows eroticism full freedom of expression, and in no way brands it as a sin. The second of these fundamental laws has both metaphysical and social significance : it identifies the very moment at which the newborn cXild breathes its first independent breath as the time when it receives its soul from God. Abortion is thus taken for granted as an acceptable thing to do, and the use of contraceptives is likewise legitimized. One of the most famous of all Koranic scholars, Ibn'Araby (1165-1240) wrote that "Mohammed loves women because the contemplation of God in a woman is most intense... Tovább

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The Korán contains two precepts relating to physical love and the unión of the couple which have, over the centuries, been central to Muslim thinking on the subject. The first ofthem is as follows: "Your wives are for you a pleasure, as you are for them " (II, 187); "Your wives are for you like a field. Cultivate it as you will, having first performed somé act of piety" (II, 223). This means that Islam allows eroticism full freedom of expression, and in no way brands it as a sin. The second of these fundamental laws has both metaphysical and social significance : it identifies the very moment at which the newborn cXild breathes its first independent breath as the time when it receives its soul from God. Abortion is thus taken for granted as an acceptable thing to do, and the use of contraceptives is likewise legitimized. One of the most famous of all Koranic scholars, Ibn'Araby (1165-1240) wrote that "Mohammed loves women because the contemplation of God in a woman is most intense and most perfect" and that "the most intense and the most perfect unión is copulation". However, "the Prophet loved women because of their ontological role, since they are in a sense the passive receptacle or setting for the act; their relationship to the act is thus the same as that existing between universal nature and God". As a result, "it is essential to distinguish between the sexual act itself, together with the pleasure which it brings, which is mere lust, and the sexual act Vissza