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Messenger privately precede your private con- made her and her son a Sign for all the worlds.
sultation by giving charity–that is better for you (21:91)
and purer. But if you cannot find the means, (Believers are) those who guard their chastity.
Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (58:12) (23:5)
Are you afraid to give gifts of charity before your Say to the believers that they should lower their
private consultation? If you do not and Allah eyes and guard their chastity. That is purer for
turns to you, at least perform prayer and give the them. Allah is aware of what they do. (24:30)
alms, and obey Allah and His Messenger. Allah is Say to the believing women that they should
aware of what you do. (58:13) lower their eyes and guard their chastity and not
Give from what We have provided for you before display their adornments–except for what nor-
death comes to one of you and he says, ‘My mally shows–and draw their head-coverings
Lord, if only you would give me a little more time across their breasts. They should only display
so that I can give charity and be one of the right- their adornments to their husbands or their fa-
eous!’ (63:10) thers or their husbands’ fathers, or their sons or
their husbands’ sons or their brothers or their
CHASTITY brothers’ sons or their sisters’ sons or other
If any of you do not have the means to marry free women or those they own as slaves or their male
women who are believers, you may marry slave- attendants who have no sexual desire or children
girls who are believers. Allah knows best about who still have no awareness of women’s private
your faith; you are all the same in that respect. parts. Nor should they stamp their feet so that
Marry them with their owners’ permission and their hidden ornaments are known. Turn to Allah
give them their dowries correctly and courte- every one of you, believers, so that hopefully you
ously as married women, not in fornication or will have success. (24:31)
taking them as lovers. When they are married, if Men and women who are Muslims, men and
they commit fornication they should receive half women who are believers, men and women who
the punishment of free women. This is for those are obedient, men and women who are truthful,
of you who are afraid of committing fornication. men and women who are steadfast, men and
But being patient is better for you. Allah is Ever- women who are humble, men and women who
Forgiving, Most Merciful. (4:25) give charity, men and women who fast, men and
Today all good things have been made lawful for women who guard their chastity, men and
you. And the food of those given the Book is also women who remember Allah much: Allah has
lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. prepared forgiveness for them and an immense
So are chaste women from among the believers reward. (33:35)
and chaste women of those given the Book be- And Maryam, the daughter of ‘Imran, who
fore you, once you have given them their guarded her chastity–We breathed Our Spirit into
dowries in marriage, not in fornication or taking her and she confirmed the Words of her Lord and
them as lovers. But as for anyone who rejects His Book and was one of the obedient. (66:12)
faith, his actions will come to nothing and in the (Belivers are) those who guard their chastity ex-
hereafter he will be among the losers. (5:5) cept from their wives and any slaves they own, in
She (Maryam) said, ‘How can I have a boy when which case they incur no blame, (70:29-30)
no man has touched me and I am not an un-
chaste woman?’ (19:20) CHILDREN
(Her people said to Maryam,) ‘Sister of Harun, Remember when We rescued you from the peo-
your father was not an evil man nor was your ple of Pharaoh. They were inflicting an evil pun-
mother an unchaste woman!’ (19:28) ishment on you–slaughtering your sons and
And she (Maryam) who protected her chastity. letting your women live. In that there was a terri-
We breathed into her some of Our Spirit and ble trial for you from your Lord. (2:49)
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