A leading Islamic scholar and an adviser at the Saudi royal court, Abdullah Muhammad Al-Mutlaq, has given Muslim women the permission “to refuse to have sex with their husbands during the coronavirus outbreak.”
According to Islamic law (al-Bukhari 4851-4852, in the Book of Marriage):
The Prophet said, “If a man Invites his wife to sleep with him and she refuses to come to him, then the angels send their curses on her till morning.”
The Prophet said, “If a woman spends the night deserting her husband’s bed (does not sleep with him), then the angels send their curses on her till she comes back (to her husband).”
No believing woman wants to be cursed by angels until morning. Such permission from an Islamic authority such as Al-Mutlaq allows women to escape this curse while at the same time acting in the interests of their own health. Without permission, she is left defenseless. This edict by Al-Mutlaq is consistent with the Saudi guardianship program, in which women must be given permission by men in their lives, considered to be her male guardians — usually her father or husband but he can also be her brother or even son — to perform basic tasks such as going shopping for food. Women in Saudi Arabia are in complete reliance on whatever permission is granted by Islamic authorities or her male guardians. All this is in accordance with Islamic jurisprudence.
Women’s rights defenders in Saudi Arabia are rotting in jail, because women are not to be decision-makers. Any allowance thrown out to women to improve their oppressed status (e.g. permission to drive) is decided only by male authorities. Such allowance establishes male supremacy, but the world is framing it as Islamic “modernization.”
So now that women have been given permission by the high-ranking Islamic scholar Abdullah Muhammad Al-Mutlaq, they now have the specific right to deny their husbands amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“Saudi cleric tells women they CAN refuse sex with husbands during coronavirus outbreak,” by Henry Holloway, The Sun, April 4, 2020:
A SAUDI cleric has told women it is okay to refuse to have sex with their husbands during the coronavirus outbreak.
Religious scholar Abdullah Muhammad Al-Mutlaq, an adviser at the Saudi royal court, gave the advice while appearing on a live state TV call-in show.
Al-Mutlaq received a call from a viewer asking if it was a “sin” for her to refuse her husband sex during the pandemic lockdown.
The viewer appeared to be fearful of a twisted interpretation of Islamic law peddled by some ultraconservative scholars that wives have to submit to their husbands.
Al-Mutlaq, a member of the kingdom’s Council of Senior Scholars, gave a forward-thinking response as he said she was well within her rights to kick him out of bed.
The cleric has previously intervened to go against extreme traditionalist teachings as Saudi Arabia continues to make efforts to modernise and reform.
Saudi Arabia however is hit by coronavirus – like the rest of the world – with more than 2,000 confirmed cases and 24 deaths.
Authorities have a lockdown in place, and the Saudi government have deployed religious clerics in an attempt to urge people to take precautions to beat coronavirus.
Al-Mutlaq appeared on TV to answer questions about the pandemic, including the query about a wife’s rights with her husband.
News outlet Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported the viewer asked: “My husband never stays at home and couldn’t care less about the measures in place. I’m terrified he’ll give me the virus.
“When he asks me to sleep with him, I’m going to refuse because I’m scared for myself and my kids. Am I falling into sin?”
Al-Mutlaq said: “If he isn’t listening to you and if he isn’t staying at home, you’ve got no reason to be worried [by rejecting his advances].
“You should avoid him and keep away from him.
“He must self-isolate for 14 days.”
He added: “You are not a sinner at all, you protect yourself.”….
Boromir's Horn says
After the Islamic religious police pay him a visit,a correction is forthcoming
CogitoErgoSum says
And as for you Muslim men, be sure to take any sheep, goats, donkeys cows, camels, etc. who fall victim to your uncontrollable urges to a city other than your own and sell them there …. and that includes the offspring of those animals which are born after the consummation of aforesaid uncontrollable urge.
elee says
If they didn’t want to get molested why didn’t they wear veils?
sweetolbob says
The muslims would give all their love mates veils but the damned goats keep eating them !
Battle says
+100.
Boromir's Horn says
Great, now all the goats are going to get STD
James Lincoln says
After careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that in order to be a top islamic “scholar” one must have an IQ less than 80.
Jaydam says
Most of them probably don’t even break into double figures 🙂
Westman says
A mini-fatwa like this could damage camel saddle sales.
gravenimage says
Spot on.
keith says
The more I read about how woman are treated in Islam the more I realise that it is close to slavery and the more disgusted I become.
Women should be treated with a sense of reverence.
They carry us inside them, like a parasite for 40 weeks.
Go through agony to bring us into this world.
Feed us, change our arses,look after us till we are adults and for some stone age cretin to say that women are inferior????
Don’t know why, but my blood pressure goes up when I read things like this.
Just one more reason to hate Islam.
James Lincoln says
keith says,
“The more I read about how woman are treated in Islam the more I realise that it is close to slavery….”
No qualifiers are needed, keith.
It IS slavery – pure and simple.
roberta says
”like a parasite for 40 weeks.” wtf?
Punching bags/slaves. Whatever fits the occasion.
gravenimage says
Saudi Arabia: Top Islamic scholar gives permission to women to refuse husbands sex during coronavirus
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Will other Muslim clerics put out a Fatwa on him?
Patrick B. Ludwig says
Poor muselmen. Now they have to resort to those women their right hand possesses, there sex slaves.
Well, at least should keep on their niqab masks…
What an obscenity this “islam” is.
Giacomo Latta says
”to refuse to have sex with their husbands during the coronavirus outbreak”
Finally, women’s rights that don’t involve a ”derecho” to the face.
roberta says
Si, las mujeres alla reciban montones de derechos. Como vitaminas (one a day)
gravenimage says
A veces una derecha e izquierda…
FYI says
islamic “scholarship”…its warped and faulty methodology:1,400 years of it.
1} allah tells muslims if in doubt they should “question those who read the scripture that was before thee”{i.e the BIBLE}in koran 10:94
2] In koran 5:116 allah gets the Theology of the Trinity ludicrously wrong:he thinks MARY is in it.Now suppose a muslim “scholar” decided to follow allah’s advice in koran 10:94 and check to see if MARY is indeed in the Trinity by consulting the Gospel{ a book allah says he gave to Jesus,confirms as TRUE at the time the koran was written koran 3:3,and of which he says “The Gospel wherein are guidance and a light” koran 5:46-47}
3] So the islamic scholar follows allah’s advice and notes that MARY is NOT in the Trinity and then refers back to the koran and realizes that…it is the koran that is in ERROR,not the Bible.
4]”wait a minute!the koran is wrong and allah has misrepresented the Theology of the Trinity.How on earth did MARY end up in the Trinity?I see the koran is wrong and now I must resign my position as an islamic scholar and abandon islam” ….said no islamic scholar ever.
5]It is easier to pretend not to see the errors in teh koran…..1,400 years of islamic “scholarship”:did it not occur to them to follow allah’s advice and CHECK the Bible?
gravenimage says
Muslims are also wrong that Jews consider Ezra to be the Son of God. Doesn’t mean they won’t murder Infidels over their own errors, though…
OLD GUY says
Muslim men will just go to their sex slaves, and temporary marriage instead of their wives. For muslims it’s a mans world, they are not going to give up their sex lives if there are no women they will find a goat.
Jaydam says
How generous of this Islamic scholar to give women permission to refuse sex with their husbands. It reveals how damn backward this “religion / ideology” really is.