Researcher’s Companion
I Exegesis &
Parallels (الشرح و النظائر)
1. ‘أَمَرَكُمْ
اللَّهُ’ (The directive of God)
The words ‘أَمَرَكُمْ
اللَّهُ’, as pointed out by the author (ref. 3), imply the directive of
God that is ingrained in human nature regarding sexual intercourse with one’s
wife. It needs to be appreciated that man has received God’s directives and His
guidance in two forms: a. Innate Guidance and b. Revealed Guidance. As such, the
words ‘أَمَرَكُمْ اللَّهُ’ hold good for both types of
guidance.
The implication
in this verse (2:222) is that the details of sexual intercourse are
intrinsically found in human nature. So just as a person intrinsically knows
that food is to be put in the mouth, he knows through his ingrained guidance
where to satisfy his sexual urge from.
II Scriptures and Testaments (العهود و الصحف)
The Bible
contains severer restriction on women during their menstrual periods:
When a woman
has her regular flow of blood, the impurity of her monthly period will last
seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean till evening.
Anything she
lies on during her period will be unclean and anything she sits on will be
unclean. Whoever touches her bed must wash his clothes and bathe with water and
he will be unclean till evening. Whether it is the bed she was sitting on or
anything else she was sitting on, when anyone touches it, he will be unclean
till evening.
If a man
lies with her and her monthly flow touches her, he will be unclean for seven
days; any bed he lies on will be unclean. (Leviticus, 15:19-24)
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