Editing Islamic sexual jurisprudence (section)

====Marriage====
{{main|Marriage in Islam|Islamic marital jurisprudence}}

Marriage (Nikah) is a contract between Muslim men and his wife. Marriage has been described in tradition (hadith) as half of the religion with the regards of preserving chastity.<ref>
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{{cite web |title=Is marriage half of religion? - islamqa.info |url=https://islamqa.info/en/11586 |website=isamqa.info |access-date=2018-06-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619112945/https://islamqa.info/en/11586 |archive-date=2018-06-19 |url-status=live }}
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{{quote|Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever Allah provides with a righteous wife, then Allah has assisted him in half of his religion. Let him fear Allah regarding the second half.”|al-Mu’jam al-Awsaṭ 992, Saheeh al-Targheeb wa’l-Tarheeb (1916) Al-Bayhaqi narrated in Shu’ab al-Eemaan from al-Raqaashi, Al-Haakim narrated in al-Mustadrak from Anas, in a marfoo’ report<ref>
{{cite web |title=Hadith on Marriage: Marriage is half of the religion |url=https://abuaminaelias.com/dailyhadithonline/2013/04/16/hadith-on-marriage-whoever-gets-married-has-completed-half-of-the-religion/ |website=abuaminaelias.com |accessdate=19 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619113051/https://abuaminaelias.com/dailyhadithonline/2013/04/16/hadith-on-marriage-whoever-gets-married-has-completed-half-of-the-religion/ |archive-date=2018-06-19 |url-status=live }}
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In Islamic law, marriage legalizes sexual intercourse between the husband and wife. Marriage is not restricted to a platonic relationship nor is it only for procreation. Marriage is greatly encouraged in Islam, partially because it provides a lawful institution in which to fulfill one's sexual urges.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://islamqa.info/en/5560 | title=Etiquette of intimate relations | publisher=islamqa.info | work=Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid | accessdate=24 July 2015 | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724204418/http://islamqa.info/en/5560 | archivedate=24 July 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.zawaj.com/articles/sex_and_marriage_q-and-a.html | title=Sex & Marriage in Islam | publisher=zawaj.com | accessdate=24 July 2015 | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710223229/http://www.zawaj.com/articles/sex_and_marriage_q-and-a.html | archivedate=10 July 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.al-islam.org/islamic-marriage-syed-athar-husain-sh-rizvi/importance-marriage-islam | title=Importance of Marriage in Islam | publisher=Al-Islam.org | accessdate=24 July 2015 | url-status=live | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724205547/http://www.al-islam.org/islamic-marriage-syed-athar-husain-sh-rizvi/importance-marriage-islam | archivedate=24 July 2015 }}</ref> Islam does provide extensive rules regarding sex; however, within the conditional institution of marriage, there are sources in both the Qur'an and hadith, which promote the well being of humans and their natural sexual instincts. In the Surah Baqarah, sex in married life is openly recommended: {{quote|"When they [i.e. wives] have [[Ghusl|cleansed]] themselves [after menstruation], you go into them as Allah has commanded."|(2:222)}}<ref group="Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project">{{cite web |title=Importance of Marriage in Islam |url=http://www.al-islam.org/marriage-handbook/3.htm |accessdate=April 28, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504205154/http://www.al-islam.org/marriage-handbook/3.htm |archivedate=May 4, 2013 }}</ref> It has been also said: {{quote|"Those who guard their chastity (ie. private parts, from illegal sexual acts) except from their wives or (the captives and slaves) that their right hands possess, - for them, they are free from blame."|[al-Mu’minoon 23:5-6]}} Additionally, sources of hadith illustrate similar promotion of fulfilling sexual urges in lawful ways within a marriage. The Wasaelush Shia quotes Muhammad as encouraging his followers to marry, saying: {{quote|"O, you young men! I recommend marriage to you."|The Wasaelush Shia (vol. 14, p.&nbsp;25)}}<ref group="Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project">{{cite web |last=S.H. Rizvi |first=Syed Athar Husain |title=Islamic Marriage |url=http://www.al-islam.org/marriage-handbook/3.htm |publisher=World Islamic Network |accessdate=April 28, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130504205154/http://www.al-islam.org/marriage-handbook/3.htm |archivedate=May 4, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="POM">{{cite book |last1=Asar |first1=Adam |title=Peace of Mind and Healing of Broken Lives |publisher= |isbn=9780557334681 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=RTPrAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&dq=Dua+of+intercourse#v=onepage&q=Dua%20of%20intercourse&f=false |language=en}}</ref>

Prophet Muhammad also declared marital sex as charity:<ref>
{{cite web |title=''Having intercourse (with one's wife) is a charity. |url=https://salaficentre.com/2014/05/having-intercourse-with-ones-wife-is-a-charity/ |website=The Salafi Centre of Manchester |accessdate=19 June 2018 |date=2014-05-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506200916/http://www.salaficentre.com/2014/05/having-intercourse-with-ones-wife-is-a-charity/ |archive-date=2017-05-06 |url-status=live }}
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{{quote|"When one of you have sex with your wife, it is a rewarded act of charity." The Companions were surprised and said, "But we do it purely out of our desire. How can it be counted as charity?" The Prophet replied, "If you had done it with a forbidden woman, it would have been counted as a sin, but if you do it in legitimacy, it is counted as charity.”|Muslim. Number 1674}}

=====Limitations=====
{{Main|Mahram|Interfaith marriage in Islam}}
{{quote|Do not marry idolateresses until they believe, a believing slave woman is better than idolateress even if she pleases you and let (your women) not be married with idolater, a believing slave man is better than idolater even if he pleases you; they call towards fire and God calls you toward paradise and forgiveness with his will; and he explains his verses so that you may understand. (Al-Qur'an 2:221)}}
Marriage with an [[idolatress]] or [[Idolatry|idolater]] is forbidden (2:221).<ref name="go.galegroup.com">{{cite web |last=Kassam |first=Zayn |title=Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World |url=http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3403500164&v=2.1&u=nysl_ce_colgul&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w |publisher=Macmillan Reference USA |accessdate=3 May 2013}}</ref> Muslim men can marry Muslim, Judaist, and Christian women, but can not marry any other religious or irreligious women, where Muslim women can marry only Muslim men. A Muslim man can maintain at-a-time four marital relationship, but Muslim women can at-a-time maintain only one marital relationship.

Islam has forbidden marriage to one's father's wives (4:22), one's mother, daughters, sisters, father's sisters, mother's sisters, brother's daughters, sister's daughters, foster-mothers, foster-sisters, mother-in-law, stepdaughters born of women with whom one has had conjugal relations, the wives of blood-sons, and two sisters from the same family (unless it was unknown at the time that the two were related) (4:23), as well as all married women except who have become slaves as their previous marriage ends on becoming slave (3:24).<ref name="go.galegroup.com"/>