of the
Authorized
English translation of the Quran by
Dr.
Rashad Khalifa
Virginity
Sons and daughters of the believers must be taught that their happiness
throughout their lives depends on following God's law and preserving their
chastity. This means that they must keep themselves for their spouses only, and
never allow anyone else to touch them in a sexual manner [
23:5-24:30,
33:35,
70:29-]
Today's society is replete with
powerful temptations. In America's society of the eighties, even parents
start talking about boyfriends for their daughters and girlfriends for their
sons. When they reach their teens, many parents even supply birth control
means to their children. An alarming percentage of teen-agers are sexually
active, even though they are not physiologically mature, and without any
moral limitations.
Millions of illicit pregnancies
and the tragedies associated with them, plus millions of tragic abortions,
happen every month in the USA.
Among the results of this moral
breakdown: unwanted and unsupported children, delinquent and irresponsible
fathers, criminals who have no regard for people's lives or properties, millions
of social misfits, incurable genital herpes,
incurable genital warts, devastating syphilis and gonorrhea, dysplasia, the
killer AIDS, and new diseases never known before.
What most people do not know is
that this moral breakdown costs them dearly throughout their lives. For the
only law that rules the world is God's law, and these flagrant violations
of God's law cost them a lot of misery and problems
(20:124).
The true believers who care about
their children will advise them and remind them repeatedly and persistently
(20:132) to
keep their chastity. This means staying a virgin until their wedding night,
then staying loyal to one's spouse
- never committing adultery - for their own happiness. God's advice to keep
our chastity, before and after marriage, is for our own good. God is the
one who controls our health, wealth, and happiness or misery
(53:43,
48).
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