Peace to you all,
I have a question regarding 2:222
Any doctor will not tell you that it is harmful
to have sexual intercourse during menstruation. In fact it may have
a positive effect on period pain. There is no reason why couples can't enjoy
each other at all times of the female cycle provided they are both happy
about this.
It is sexist and damaging to women to claim that
menstruation is in any way "unclean" it is in fact a healthy process that
enhances the health of the womb and an essential part of being a women and
a positive part of a women's identity. Women are no more unclean than Men.
Remember Quran 3:195.
Signed:
questioning 222
786 Peace ;
When a women is on her period and is sexually active it is scientifically
proven that chances of acquiring or transmitting seually transmiited diseases
increases greatly.HIV, Gonorrhea, chlamydia, trichomonas, bacterial vaginosis
etc.,to name a few.
Blocked tubes is only one after effect thus reducing fertility,or rendering
the female sterile for life. Recurrent attacks of pelvic infection can lead
to chronic pelvic pain which is secondary to multiple adhesions-scarring
between the reproductive organs and the whole of the lower abdomen and pelvis.This is very debilitating and usually lasts a lifetime.The male also
can get infected much more easily and have to suffer the consequences as
well.When God says something, He means it.
May God guide us to His truth
peace
Submitter, M.D.
Editor's report:
In a health letter on September 25, 1995, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention reported that avoiding sex that causes bleeding, or takes
place while a woman is menstruating, cuts the risk of HIV infection. This
CDC report was presented at the 11th meeting of the International Society
for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research, which was held in New Orleans,
Louisiana from August 27-30 in 1995. The CDC's letter focused on a case
controlled analysis conducted by W.J. Kassler, in which 95 HIVcases of HIV
transmission were closely studied. Kassler and his colleagues found that
bleeding during sex accounted for 11% of the cases, and concluded that this
type of transmission was a risk for both men, with a ratio of 8:1, and women,
with a ratio of 4:1. Kassler also found that for women, having sex during
menses, which accounted for 20% of the cases studied, was associated with
a six-fold risk of transmission (6:1).
Editor's comments
<<Any doctor will not tell you that it is harmful
to have sexual intercourse during menstruation.>>
You are wrong as you can see from the Medical reply above. Remember also
that Harmful does not necessarily mean the physical harm only, there is a
psychological harm that will vary depending on every woman.
[2:222] They ask you about menstruation: say, "It is harmful; you shall avoid
sexual intercourse with the women during menstruation; do not approach them
until they are rid of it. Once they are rid of it, you may have intercourse
with them in the manner designed by GOD. GOD loves the repenters, and He
loves those who are clean."
<<In fact it may have a positive effect
on period pain. >>
Even if this is true it is not a good reason to disobey God. Smoking Marijuana
will also lessen your period pain, should the women then take it to lessen
the period discomfort and disobey God.
<<There is no reason why couples can't enjoy
each other at all times of the female cycle provided they are both happy
about this. >>
We do not do things to please ourselves while disobeying God. We do things
to please God first and may be lucky then to be pleased ourselves. Now
after learning the medical facts you have even more reasons to
obey God.
<< It is sexist and damaging to women to claim
that menstruation is in any way "unclean" >>
No one claimed so. Quran does not. The words used in 2:222 is meant for the
psychological readiness for the woman to feel good about herself and to feel
attractive to her partner , her husband after her period is over.
<< it is in fact a healthy process that enhances
the health of the womb and an essential part of being a women and a positive
part of a women's identity. >>
That is correct and it is not against what the Quran teaches, if you understand
it correctly.
<<Women are no more unclean than Men. Remember
Quran 3:195.>>
And no one claimed the opposite , Quran is clear as you said in 3:195.
We hope this clarify the issue for you.
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