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Sexuality in Islam is largely described by the Qur'an , Islamic tradition, and religious leaders both past and present as being confined to marital relationships between men and women. While most traditions discourage Celibacy , all encourage strict chastity and modesty with regards to any relationships across gender lines, holding forth that intimacy as perceived within Islam -- encompassing a swath of life more broad than strictly sex -- is largely to be reserved for marriage. This sensitivity to gender difference and modesty ('' Hijab '') outside of marriage can be seen in current prominent aspects of Islam -- interpretations of Islamic Dress and degrees of gender segregation, for example.

While prohibitions against adulterous relationships are strong, permissible sexual relationships are described in Islamic sources as great wells of love and closeness for the couple involved. Specific occasions -- most notably daytime fasting and menstruation -- are times forbidden for intercourse, though not for other ways of touching and being close to one another. Issues such as masturbation and homosexuality are frowned upon or outright forbidden; contraceptive use is permitted, as is abortion, though the latter often with great restriction.


SEX WITHIN MARRIAGE


To varying degrees Islamic Law explicitly states that both men and women are entitled to Sexual Gratification in marriage; the failure or inability to provide this may be cited as grounds for divorce initiated by either the wife or husband. Throughout the history of Islamic Exegetical traditions, philosophies, and law, much has been written to encourage, often in quite frank and explicit terms, believers in Islam to cultivate between themselves in their marriages both sexual passion and tenderness.


Aims of sex

Sex is viewed as both for recreational purpose, for strengthening the bonds between the couple and for reproduction.

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Islam obligates a married couple to try and have children. The theological understanding and reasons for this are varied, but this essentially means that a spouse is encouraged, religiously, to have sex with their partner on request. However, it is considered forbidden ( Haram ) for a woman to have sex during her Period . This encouragement is on both partners, and while neither partner can force the other to comply, constant refusal to have sex (with a view to conceiving a child) has been recorded as a reason why many women choose to divorce their husband.

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The above hadith makes it clear that intercourse for sole aim of sexual gratification is not prohibited in Islam.


ABORTION

Islam does not traditionally hold that Ensoulment occurs at the point of conception. Two passages in the Qur'an describe the Fetal Development process:



Traditional scholarship places the point of ensoulment nearer to the end of this process, naming it as anywhere between 40 and 120 days after conception, making Abortion permissible until that point, though increasingly disliked as time passed.

Contemporary scholarship, however, is more likely to more strongly restrict or even forbid abortion, on the grounds that modern technology has permitted us to perceive life in the womb earlier than was previously possible. All schools of thought, traditional and modern, make allowances for circumstances threatening the health or life of the mother.

Muhammad Ibn Adam Al-Kawthari in a lecture stated that it was murder if done after three months and before that it was a crime, but not to the degree of murder.


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