Sons and daughters of the true 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.
And they maintain their chastity. Only with their spouses,
or those who are rightfully theirs, do they have sexual relations; they are not to be
blamed. (Quran, 23:5-6)
Tell the believing men that they shall subdue their eyes (and not
stare at the women), and to maintain their chastity. This is purer for them. GOD is fully
Cognizant of everything they do. (Quran, 24:30)
The submitting men, the submitting women, the believing men, the
believing women, the obedient men, the obedient women, the truthful men, the truthful
women, the steadfast men, the steadfast women, the reverent men, the reverent women, the
charitable men, the charitable women, the fasting men, the fasting women, the chaste men,
the chaste women, and the men who commemorate GOD frequently, and the commemorating women;
GOD has prepared for them forgiveness and a great recompense. (Quran, 33:35)
They keep their chastity. (They have relations) only with
their spouses, or what is legally
theirs (Quran, 70:29-30)
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.
"As for the one who disregards My message, he will have a
miserable life, and we resurrect him, on the Day of Resurrection, blind."
(Quran, 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.
He is the One who makes you laugh or cry. He is the One who
controls death and life. He is the One who created the two kinds, male and female -
from a tiny drop of semen. He will effect the recreation. He is the One who
makes you rich or poor. He is the Lord of the galaxies. (Quran, 53:43-49)
