SOLO SEX (MALE AND FEMALE
MASTURBATION)
Those who achieve insufficient satisfaction from sexual
intercourse and return to masturbation, or never give it up,
the torments are great. Everywhere they look, their friends
are unashamedly enjoying the pleasures of normal sexual
relationship. No part of society caters for them and they are
even cowardly shy to campaign for "Masturbators Liberation."
Sex life for most of them is fairly empty.
One of the most humiliating problems that the constant male
masturbator suffers from when he attempts to have sexual
relationship is premature ejaculation or the failure to
maintain an erection. When he is masturbating, he tends to
reach his orgasm as quickly as possible, but in sexual
intercourse he normally has to attempt to control his
excitement, which can impose a great strain on a person who
indulged in self-abuse over a lengthy period.
Therefore people who continuously masturbate, lose out all
round. The physical pleasure becomes reduced to a natural act
like urination, or excreting, and at the back of their minds
there is an awareness that they are missing on the real
pleasures of life. No adult can honestly claim to masturbate
without a guilty feeling of complete uselessness. Masturbation
is merely an exhaustive, rather than constructive undertaking,
resulting in nothing but total loss. Once orgasm has been
achieved there is Nothing else left, except for a feeling of
complete emptiness.
The following extracts from the writings of a dignified
physician of the Unani medicine will give one some idea of the
damage done through masturbation: "Most often, students,
bachelors or widowers and hypocritical godly persons are its
victims. It is such an evil practice that has ruined many
families and many more are being ruined today. The lack of
manly vigor and decline in the standard of young men's health
is evidence enough for this horrible social evil, eating into
the vitals of an otherwise healthy nation. If only our young
men could foresee the consequences of this evil at their own
hands bring on them! It can be said with some certainty that
eighty percent of our young men are the victims of
masturbation. This accursed practice affects equally the
heart, the brain, the liver, the stomach, the kidneys along
with the reproductive organs. This practice makes the muscles
and the nerves of the reproductive organ sagging and lifeless.
Accumulation of fluids in the veins makes it unfit for its
normal function. There is extreme feebleness in the power of
erection. The heat of the friction between the delicate
muscles of the organ and the tough hide of the hand damages
the former beyond repair." (Miftahi, Modesty and Chastity
in Islam)
Following the excitement which accompanies masturbation,
comes the feeling of shame, anger, humiliation, and the sense
of futility. This sense of guilty and humiliation deepens as
the years go on, into a suppressed rage, because of the
impossibility to escape. The one thing that it seems
impossible to escape from, once the habit is formed, is
masturbation. It goes on and on, on into old age, in spite of
marriage. And it always carries this secret feeling of
futility and humiliation. And this is, perhaps, the deepest
and most dangerous cancer of our civilization. Instead of
being a comparatively harmless vice, masturbation is certainly
the most dangerous sexual vice that a society can be afflicted
with, in the long run.
MASTURBATION UNDER ISLAMIC LAW
Islam strictly forbids the waste of seminal fluid through
masturbation. The one who discharges his seminal fluid with
his hand is damned. This evil practice removes the normal
bright look of a man's face, and he looks melancholy and
dejected. He loses his health and quite frequently his
vitality and sexual stamina through this disgusting practice.
The Qur'aan declares: "The Believers are those who abstain
from sex except with those joined to them in marriage bond, or
those whom their righht hand possess for (in their case) they
are free from blame, but those who crave something beyond that
are transgressors."
Beyond the wife and slave woman all ways and means of
sexual satisfaction are unlawful. They include adultery,
sodomy, masturbation, etc. From this it can be deduced that
masturbation falls under the context 'but those who crave ...'
and is therefore immoral and a sin in Islam. Views expressed
by the Shafi'i jurists on this matter are clearly illustrated
by Imam Nawawi whose opinion is typical of the Shafi'i Jurists
as a whole. He declared that masturbation was absolutely
forbidden. It was only permitted when it was performed by the
hand of a man's wife or concubine, for he has a right to the
enjoyment of her hand as he has to the rest of her body."
The author of Subul al Salam according to al-Juzairi,
states: "Some of the Hanbali and Hanafi Jurists are of the
opinion that masturbation may be permissible in the event
that one fears (that is, not engaging in it) would lead to his
committing adultery, fornication. But be cautious that such a
view is weak and is not to be relied upon."
According to Maliki school of thought masturbation is
deduced to be illegal from the following hadith narrated by
'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (Radhiallaahu Anhu): "We were with the
Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam) while we were young and
had no wealth whatsoever. The Prophet (Sallallaahu Alayhi
Wasallam) said: "O assembly of youths ; whoever among you
possesses the physical and financial resources to marry,
should do so, because it helps him guard his modesty, and
whoever is unable to marry, should fast, as fasting diminishes
his sexual power.’
Therefore, the jurists of this school are of the opinion
that if masturbation was permitted, the Prophet (Sallallaahu
Alayhi Wasallam) would have acknowledged its permissibility
because this is much simpler than fasting. Since the Prophet (Sallallaahu
Alayhi Wasallam) did not mention it, demonstrates that it is
prohibited.
From the evidence presented so far, it can be seen that
Shari’ah not only classifies this type of unnatural waste of
seminal fluid as illegal, but also advocated strict measures
for its prevention.
[ Morality in Islam,
Acaciaville]
Last modified:
July 19, 2007
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