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Dear burhan bai, please can you answaer the following questions according to Quran and sunna.

 

1. What is the meaning of anal sex?

 

2. what is the different between anal and oral sex?

 

3. woman should cover her face in open place?

 

Thanks.

 

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Answer:

 

Difference between oral and anal sex?

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His  forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol,  no person,  no grave, no prophet,  no imam,  no dai,  nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

 

Your question: What is the meaning of anal sex?

The term ‘anal sex’ is referred to the act where the husband has intercourse with his wife through her ‘anus’ or back side.   This act is strictly forbidden to the believers by Allah and His Messenger (saws) and is considered a grave sin in Islam.

 

Al-Tirmidhi Hadith 3195        Narrated by Abdullah ibn Abbas

Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "Allah will not look at a man who has intercourse with a man or a woman through the anus."

 

Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 2157  Narrated by Abu Hurayrah

The Prophet (saws) said: ‘He who has intercourse with his wife through her anus is accursed.’

 

Sunan of Abu-Dawood Hadith 3895  Narrated by Abu Hurayrah

The Prophet (saws) said: ‘If anyone resorts to a diviner and believes in what he says, or has intercourse with his wife when she is menstruating,  or has intercourse with his wife through her anus,  he has nothing to do with what has been sent down to Muhammad (saws).

 

Your question: what is the different between anal and oral sex?

Oral sex is an act whereby the man or the woman touches their partner’s sexual organs with their mouth.  

 

Some scholars have voiced their opinion against touching either of the partner’s sex organs with the mouth.  But because nothing is mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah about this particular act,  the scholars have not said it is forbidden… The most they have said is that one should fear Allah and stay away from this act as it is considered impure,  unclean and unhealthy.

 

Your question: woman should cover her face in open place?

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah Ahzaab verse 59:O Prophet,  enjoin your wives and daughters,  and the believing women,  that they should cast their outer garments over their persons.   It is expected that they will thus be recognized,  and not molested.   Allah is Oft-Forgiving,  Most Merciful.

 

Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 24 Surah Nur verse 31: (O Prophet) enjoin the believing woman to restrain their gaze and guard their modesty,  and not to display their adornment except that which is displayed of itself,  and to draw their veils over their bosoms,  and not to display their adornments except before their husbands,  their fathers, …….and also forbid them to stamp their feet on the ground lest their hidden ornaments should be displayed.

 

In light of the above verses regarding the veiling of the righteous believing woman,   the scholars of Islam are of the opinion that the ‘except that which is displayed of itself’ could be the hands and face of the woman.   Thus,  in the presence of non-mehram men,  if a believing woman wears loose clothing,  and covers her hair and body completely with a loose outer covering,  but leaves her face and hands uncovered,  she will not be violating the above commandment of Allah Subhanah.    

 

All the scholars of all schools of thought in Islam are unanimous in their opinion,  that it would be better and purer if the believing woman,  when in the presence of non-mehram men,  also covers her face and her hands along with her whole body with a loose outer covering.

 

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me.  Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

 

Your Brother in Islam,

 

 

Burhan