Islamic Concept of Sexual
Psychology
ISLAM
Sex & Violence
ANWAR SHAIKH
Chapter 1
Islamic Concept of Sexual Psychology
The Islamic message when analysed carefully, emerges as a novel
doctrine of sexual psychology, which stands on the two pillars of
carnal enjoyment and conscience--free violence in the name of
Allah, who claims to be the Most Merciful and the Best Judge.
Though this faith cannot stand without these props, they have been
masterfully camouflaged with Divine Veneer, which loses its lustre
when subjected to a rational examination.
To demonstrate this truth, I must first, narrate the two universal
legends - The Greek and the Biblical - which have determined the
sexual status of woman in Islam, and the appeal of her carnal
attraction in arousing the spirit of Jehad, the holy concept of
violence, seeking plunder, persecution and paralysis of non-Muslim
societies.
The Greek tradition holds that Pandora, the first woman was
especially created by Zeus, the King of gods, to punish man for
receiving the gift of fire that Prometheus had stolen from Heaven.
He commanded Hephaestus, the divine artisan, to mix earth with
water for preparing woman's body, which ought to have man's voice,
but in fairness and beauty it must resemble an immortal goddess.
He bade Athena to teach her the art of weaving highly complex
webs. The golden Aphrodite was ordered to embellish her (woman's)
head with grace, as well as, painful desire, and cares that
decimate limbs. At the same time, Hermes, the god's messenger, was
told to equip her with a dog-like mind and deceitful manners. To
obey Zeus, the gods allotted her a beguiling mode of utterance.
When the creative act was completed, the woman was called Pandora
because every god had bestowed on her a gift, which was to be a
source of some mischief to man.
The fascinating souvenir was presented by Zeus to man - Epimetheus,
whose brother Prometheus, had warned him not to accept any memento
from gods. So beautiful was Pandora that Epimetheus could not
resist the temptation of accepting her.
How did this Divine plan materialize? Prometheus had left a
mysterious box in the custody of Epimetheus with the express
instructions not to open it under any circumstance. When Pandora
saw it, her curiosity became boundless. She opened the box
whereupon ten thousand evils rushed out and started plaguing man.
Hope was the only one that could not escape for the timely
replacement of the lid.
Had Pandora listened to Epimetheus, evil would have been unknown
in the world. Thus, the moral of the story is:
1. Man is innocent and woman is guilty.
2. It is the sexual attraction of woman that misled Epimetheus to
accept the gift despite a stern warning from his brother not to do
so.
3. Since Epimetheus heeded the warning but Pandora did not, man is
superior to woman in resolve, wisdom and general character but
woman is the source of mischief, misery and misunderstanding.
This Hesiod point of view about womanhood seems to have served as
the cornerstone of the Greek culture, allotting her the lowest
status in society. As a result, the Greek culture became
patriarchal in which woman ranked as a household chattel. She was
just a man's sexual toy; even in this state she had to compete
with boys, who were preferred by majority of men.
No doubt, this Greek legend has exerted an enormous influence on
human civilization, but the Biblical story of Adam's creation has
a greater psychological depth than the Pandora's tale. The Bible
states:
Having created man in His own image, "the Lord God said, It
is not good that the man should be alone: I will make him an help
meet (companion) for him …"
"And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fail upon Adam, and
he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh
instead thereof;"
"And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He
a woman, and brought her unto the man."
"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of
man."
''Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall
cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."
"And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed."
( Genesis 2: 18- 25 )
In these verses, it is clearly stated that:
1. Man without woman is a lonely being.
2. Man has precedence over woman because she has been created out
of his rib.
3. Woman is the dearest thing to man because he believes her to be
"the bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh."
4. Man and woman shall leave their parents to live together until
death them do part.
5. Because of their closeness, it is not shameful for man and
woman to be naked in each other's company.
According to the Biblical description, man is the source of
woman's creation, and she has been brought about for the company
and pleasure of man. Yet, in status, she is nearly equal to man
because they have to live together eternally as one flesh.
So far so good. However, the story of creation adds a strange
twist to this affair by adding that the couple were found a home
in the Garden of Eden where there was to be no sorrow, no illness
and no death, and where all luxuries of life would be available
free, just for desiring.
In the Garden, there was "the tree of knowledge of good and
evil." (Genesis 2: 9) The Lord God expressly forbade Adam not
to eat the fruit of this particular tree but he defied the Creator
at the behest of Eve, his wife. Since this event shows that man
rebelled against God to please his woman, it demonstrates the
significance of sexual delight to man. Stated briefly, the event
establishes that:
1. So important is carnal gratification to man that he will defy
God for sexual pleasure. On the contrary, God shall be adored by
man most humbly and fervently if He were to promise him abundant
sexual satisfaction by way of houris (beautiful virgins) and
ghilmaan (pretty boys) as the reward for obeying Him.
2. Sex is the chief drive of male activity and plays a major role
in his felicity and frustration. Diagnosis of his mental, physical
and spiritual condition is somehow, associated with the
realization of his sexual dreams. This link is not restricted to
puberty and adolescence but goes back to infancy because parental
harmony and discord, which influence baby's tendencies, are
broadly determined by their sexual attitudes and mutual
satisfaction. No matter how educated and materially prosperous a
household be, without sexual match, which is the fountain of love,
it cannot provide a healthy growth to the children.
3. Sexual appeal of woman is her greatest shield against the
brutal proclivities of man. In fact, it is more than a shield: it
can be an offensive feminine weapon to tame, twiddle and twist
him. The effectiveness of this tool can be greatly enhanced by the
woman who knows the art of loving, shedding tears,
self-beautification, tantalisation, and keeping man at a boiling
point through hearty, hilarious and high-sounding promises.
However, the Church Elders failed to gauge the psychological depth
of this episode. Instead of utilising its hidden wisdom for the
good of humankind, they used it to promote their selfish
interests. Calling this event as the origin of sin, which
precipitated Adam's fall, they branded woman as the agent of Satan
and the enemy of man. This Christian interpretation led to the
inferior social status of woman and creation of a patriarchal
society with its concomitant afflictions to the fair sex.
Both the tales of Pandora and Eve have been invented to depict
woman as the enemy of man. An enemy is someone, who is feared
because he or she has the power to damage, debilitate and
devastate. Feminine charm, which is the aggregate of woman's
sexual appeal plus her tantalising manners, constitute the
powerful threat that makes man grovel before her. These tales not
only indicate man's fear of woman but also arouse his contempt,
preparing him for a head-on collision with her.
Again, everything is known by its opposite: for example, light can
be recognised by darkness only and the concept of sweet has no
meaning without bitter. In fact, all psychological attributes
e.g., love, friendship, etc., also have their opposites. Feminine
charm is no exception: man is endowed with dominance-urge, which
acts as a counter to the feminine charm.
It is not to say that women do not possess dominance-urge. They
certainly do, but this trait is a far less effective part of their
personality compared to what I call Feminine Charm. The fact that
human society has been chiefly patriarchal, proves decisively that
the male urge to dominate is severe, successful and supreme.
Patriarchal society is the one in which man is the boss; his word
is the law and woman has no choice but to obey him in his capacity
as a father, son and husband. In a nutshell, she exists only for
the pleasure and convenience of man. This is an extreme form of
degradation, which woman would try to avoid at all costs, if she
could, but it has not been possible over the centuries except in
casual circumstances when small matriarchal societies appeared for
short periods.
The concept of dominance-urge is explained by the pecking order
where the stronger bird pecks the weaker bird for no other reason
than making a show of his commanding stature. It is this
dominance-urge, which is the source of competition in all walks of
life, setting new and higher goals to be achieved.
To my mind, the mechanism of human culture, in the last resort, is
operated by the fraction of Feminine Charm and Dominance-Urge.
These two opposites are different from the physical opposites
known as positive and negative poles, which are equal in
magnitude, and act as functional mates and not as adversaries.
On the contrary, dominance-urge recognises no other goal than
securing ascendancy on both friends and foes. This is the reason
that it can be malicious, merciless and morally bankrupt. Since
woman has been projected as the chief enemy of man, dominance-urge
is particularly misogynist i.e., hater of womanhood, and requires
its total submission through a process of cunningness but painted
in brilliant colours of serenity, sincerity and suavity. Religion
has been man's best friend because it has enabled him to unleash
his dominance-urge to fool and snool women in the name of God, who
wants them to surrender all their human rights to please their
fathers, husbands, sons and brothers! Polygamy, concubinage etc.,
which turn women into appetising sexual objects of seraglios, are
some of the well-known examples.
As stated before, the earth has occasionally relished matriarchal
societies on a limited scale. It represents a social state where
mother is the head of the family and descent is reckoned in the
female line. Thus, matriarchy is the antonym of patriarchy.
Woman is artful in relation to man because this is the only way
she can survive. Otherwise, she is mercy, love and care. This is
the reason that, as a general rule, she is a poor substitute for a
man in the political and military fields, which require tough,
selfish and murderous attitudes to succeed and prosper. In a
matriarchy i.e., government by women, its members may bicker but
it is unlikely that they will declare and wage bloody wars because
they are too soft to be severe and too kind to be cruel.
After this background discussion, I am in a positive to state why
the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) chose sex and violence as
the two pillars of Islam.
No person (in known history) has ever possessed the magnitude of
dominance-urge that Muhammad did. If we turn the entire humankind
into a pyramid, right at the apex shall be found the Arabian
Prophet: he declared himself to be the divine Model of Behaviour
for the human race, which means that everyone should think and
feel like him, act and rest like him, walk and talk like him, eat
and drink like him; all the laws he made in the name of Allah are
there to suit his convenience; faith in God alone is immaterial to
qualify for divine mercy or salvation unless one believes in him
as well; he is the Intercessor because it is his word on the Day
of Judgement, which shall decide whether a person is entitled to
hell or heaven. Above all, Allah and His angels pray peace to
Muhammad i.e., worship him …. this is what testifies to the
immensity of Muhammad's dominance-urge: even Jesus Christ is found
praying to Jehovah, the God, but Allah, the God adores Muhammad
along with His angels!
This type of position, which is beyond the grip of both man and
God, requires patience, planning and power. The prophet was
endowed with all these elements and the ability to operate them
with an unusual degree of success. Having discussed them fully in
my book "Islam, The Arab Imperialism," I need not
describe them here again except to state that the Prophet decided
to weld his nation into a formidable fighting force for creating a
mighty empire, principally founded on his personal holiness, and
sanctity of teachings. In an effort to make the Arabs a stout and
fearless army that could administer a mighty dose of torture,
tyranny and torment to achieve his imperial goal, the Prophet used
sex appeal as the most attractive force to draw men towards his
cause. However, realising that man's delights are not restricted
to carnal enjoyment, he widened the fascination of his appeal and
invented Jehad, which not only provided abundant supplies of women
and boys to his holy soldiers (Mujahadeen) but also legalised loot
and murder of non--Muslims and served as the best way to please
Allah. This was the Prophet's master-stroke to create a fantastic
faith in his followers' minds that robbery, murder, seduction,
spreading untold misery and creating helpless orphans and widows
as Jehad (the Holy War) was the supreme act of piety that assured
wide opening of the heavenly portals. Of course, there had been
terrible predators known as conquerors before the time of
Muhammad, but nobody had ever named such atrocities as pieties
packed with blessings, benedictions and beatitudes. This power of
brainwashing that the Prophet Muhammad possessed, was not only
massive but also everlasting because it is still going strong on
both counts, even after a passage of fourteen centuries.
It is only tough, tedious and tyrannical men, who win
battlefields; effeminate fellows faint at the sight of blood. The
deep insight that the Prophet possessed enabled him to exploit the
psychological mechanism, which I may describe as "feminine
charm versus dominance urge." When the goal is achievement of
personal ascendancy both in love and loathing and fair and foul,
the urge of dominance seldom recognises the established rules of
conduct. Therefore, the Prophet Muhammad had to rise the status of
men at expense of women. So he hammered out a plan of sexual
gratification based on male command, which embellished man with
dictatorial rights and turned woman into a sexual toy. Man was
legally empowered to set up private brothels, technically known as
seraglios. These abodes of luxurious wickedness carried out only
the approval of "The Most Munificent" Allaha but also
constituted as the sole object of salvation because a Muslim obeys
the commands of Allaha-Muhammad only for the purpose of gaining
entry into paradise, which is inhabited by the most exquisite
virgins and boys, the source of wonderful sexual delights.
Although the "theory of feminine charm versus
dominance-urge" could be an effective scheme to secure the
purpose of Muhammad, putting it into practice was an extremely
difficult task because the land of Arabia had a matriarchal
system, which bestowed considerable reverence and authority on a
mother or grandmother.
It has been the policy of Islam to destroy the pre--lslamic
culture of the land wherever it achieved domination. Arabia itself
is no exception. Yet if one gazes through history, one finds that
Arabia can boast of several queens during the pre-Islamic era. It
would not have been possible unless women enjoyed fundamental
civic rights:
We find that Tiglath-Pileser III (745-727 B.C.), who founded the
Assyrian Empire, carried out several military expeditions against
Syria and its adjoining territories. In the third year of his
reign, he succeeded in exacting tribute from Zabibi, the Queen of
Aribi (Arabia). Another Arabian queen, who was conquered by him
during the ninth year of his rule, was called Shamsiyah.
The Palmyrean king, bearing an Indian name Odaynath, who chased
the famous Persian Shapur to the walls of his Capital, Ctesiphon
(al-Madain), had a beautiful, courageous and ambitious wife called
Zenobia. Appointing herself the regent of her son Wahb-Allath, she
ruled her land capably and after repulsing several Roman attempts
to re-conquer Palmyra, she declared herself to be the Queen of the
East.
The most famous of all the Arabian queens was the Shunammite girl,
whose beauty bewitched Solomon, the Wise, considered a major
Prophet of God by the Muslims. She is believed to be an Arab of
the Kedar tribe. Her physical elegance has been preserved by
Solomon, who also happened to be a romantic poet. This Arab damsel
called Bilqis is known to history as Queen of Sheba. Hearing the
fabulous tales of Solomon's wisdom, she became enamoured of him,
and travelled all the way to Jerusalem with abundant gifts to see
him. The meeting proved to be really jubilant. In return, the Wise
Solomon "gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his
royal bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and
her servants." (1 Kings: 10. 13)
These verses have been interpreted by the Biblical scholars to
mean that Solomon showered sexual favours on her when she was his
guest. Exaggerated it may seem, but its veracity has been borne
out by history. This Prophet of God indulged in the hobby of
woman-collecting. Thus he succeeded in adding no fewer than 300
concubines to his harem, which also contained wedded wives!
History testifies to the fact that the Queen of Sheba conceived to
celebrate the erotic hilarity of the occasion and gave birth to a
son, who came to be known as Menelik the second: he fathered a
small African tribe of Jews, called Falasha, whose existence
remained unknown until 1867.
The purpose of this description is to demonstrate that the Arab
women did not live as veiled captives of their men. This situation
was created by Islam to manipulate womanhood. The Prophet Muhammad
himself was a trusted employee of Khadija, whom he married later.
It is noteworthy that the Allaha did not command Muslim women to
observe purdah (veil} during the life-time of powerful Khadija,
who was a caravan trader in her own right. Nor did Muhammad
indulge in polygamy when she was alive despite the fact that she
was fifteen years older than he was and had been married twice
before becoming his wife.
One should also note that polyandry was a recognized custom of
Arabia before the advent of Muhammad. It refers to the practice
that allows a woman to have legally more than one husband at the
same time, and gives her a commanding position in the household.
The Mahabharta story of Draupadi shows that polyandry as a legal
custom originated in India. She was married to the five Pandava
brothers. Polyandry is not a privileged sexual access to a woman
by several men. It is a form of regular marriage in which woman is
the boss. This practice was associated with the customs of
kinship. It is usually brothers, who are found in this marital
relationship, though unrelated men can also enter this arrangement
and call themselves " brothers. "
Polyandry was totally different in essence from the "lek
mentality;" lek refers to the communal area in which two or
more males of a species perform courtship displays. While the lek
behaviour of insects such as fire flies is playful, among male
mammals, it means an arena, which they enter to display ferocity
for establishing their priority to sex, food and water. The
standing-by females are so much awed by the winning male that they
willingly submit to him for satisfying his sexual desires. This is
the situation in which a female has no rights; she does not have
to be a consenting partner; she must be available when she is
wanted. This is what I call "Sex by domination;" it
nullifies the defensive role of feminine charm, which gives the
fair sex her grace, greatness and grandeur. Sexually, this is an
ideal situation for man because it enables him to have carnal
pleasure by command.
This setting is opposite of matriarchal institution, which demands
genuine respect for female beauty and dignity. In fact, this
social state carries the same significance for fair sex as a
flower has for bees, flame for moths and rain for the parched
soil. Thus it lowers the value of dominance-urge, which usually is
driving force for man. In fact, manliness is associated with urge
of dominance which motivates him to tame brutes, humble storms and
build empires. Men, whose aggressive spirit is dampened by
consideration of sexual pleasures, change into sex-worshippers.
They become effeminate and cannot rise to the situations demanding
high tests of toughness, dare and supremacy.
In this sense, feminine charm ceases to be the opposite pole of
dominance-urge for lacking equality of functional dynamism and
acts as an ineffective challenge to man's brute force, which is
not only physical but also intellectual. Dominance-urge is to
manliness what fire is to locomotive engine, eruption of lava is
to earthquake roar is to lion. Thus, man feels that he is not a
man unless he is the dominant member of community. This is the
secret of the patriarchal society, which is established at the
expense of women's rights.
The Prophet Muhammad knew this fact, his marriage to Khadija, in
which she was evidently the dominant partner, must have made him
more conscious of the male dominance-urge. So he forged the
doctrinal policy of Dominance-Urge vs Feminine Charm for creating
a really virile,virulent and vibrant nation which built an empire.
Thus, he allotted sexual pleasure, the central role in his
religion deliberations: man was to have all the rights and woman
was to burdened with all the obligations; man could legitimately
have as many woman as he wished in the form of wives and
concubines; only a true Muslim was to enter paradise, the place of
the choicest sex; and the pious and swift way of securing houris
(the paradisiac virgins) was through Jehad, which makes
mutilation, murder and massacre of non-Muslims so holy that in
case of surviving battle, the Mujahid (warrior) receives plundered
wealth and women as Allaha's mercy and if he is killed in action,
he goes straight to paradise where no fewer than seventy-two
houris are restlessly waiting to offer him their lusty goodies.
The entire purpose of this divine planning is to instal Muhammad
as the holiest of holies. This was not possible without waging
wars, but men do not risk their lives without expecting high
rewards. The solution is the concept of holy Jehad, which the
Prophet conceived masterfully.
It is claimed that the real Superpose of Jehad is to enforce
righteousness and forbid evil. History does not support this view
of the Koran. Here is an episode which reveals the true nature of
Jehad and its relationship to sex:
The Battle of Honein, which was fought on February 1, 630 A.D.
yielded the following booty:
"24,000 camels, 40,000 sheep and goats, 4,000 ounces of
silver and 6,000 prisoners. They were removed to the neighbouring
valley of Al-Jirana, and sheltered there, awaiting the return of
the army from At-Taif."
Citizens of At-Taif held out bravely but when Muhammad's army
started destroying their famous vineyards, which formed the
backbone of their economy, they surrendered but the time that this
process took was too long for the soldiers of Allah to wait for
their share of the plunder.
Having agreed the restoration of prisoners to their relatives, as
Muhammad mounted his camel and proceeded to his tent, further
waiting proved very trying for his followers, who wanted an
immediate distribution of the booty. Barricading his way, they
shouted: "Distribute to us the spoil - the camels and the
flocks!"
"So rudely did they jostle him that he was driven to seek
refuge under a tree, with his mantle torn from his shoulders…..
'Return to me my mantle, O man:' cried Muhammad, who had now
secured a more free position, extricating himself with some
difficulty from the crush: - 'Return my mantle: for I swear by the
Lord that if the sheep and the camels were as many as the trees of
the forest in number, I would divide them all amongst you. Ye have
not heretofore found me niggardly or false."
"Then plucking from his camel's hump a hair, he held it
aloft, and said, 'even to a hair like this, I would keep back
nought but the Fifth; and even that I will divide amongst you.'
They were pacified, and Muhammad went on his way."
From the above quotation, it is quite clear that the followers of
Muhammad joined him in his invasions not to enforce good but to
secure plunder; their greed is demonstrated by their rude
treatment of the Prophet.
Again, Jehad was a tool of the Prophet for gaining followers to
glorify himself through distribution of plunder. According to this
episode, the Prophet gave much bigger shares to those who had just
embraced Islam, and whose conversion had some significance. For
example, Abu Sufyan along with his two sons, received 100 camels
each. And so did Hakim Ibn Hizam, Safwan, Suheil and several
others. These are the men who had been Muhammad's deadly enemies
only a few weeks earlier. The lesser chiefs received fifty camels
each. Those who still grumbled, their share was doubled without
hesitation.
There were men like Joeil, who received nothing except
lip-sympathy. In reply to the complaint about such a distribution,
the Prophet said, "I wish to gain over the hearts of these
men to Islam, while Joeil bath no need of such inducement."
Is it not pure politics? Does the Almighty need this type of
behaviour to pacify men with plunder of the innocent in return for
worship ? If it is really the attitude of Allah, then is He worthy
of adoration?
Wealth and women are the two psychological weaknesses of man, and
Jehad remedies them both. Among the captives of At-Taif were three
beautiful women. The Prophet gave one of them to All, another to
Uthman and the third to Umar.
One ought to remember that All and Uthman were the Prophet's
sons-in-law, and Umar was his father-in--law.
Again, it should be noted that Islam held it legitimate to have
sexual intercourse with one's slave-girls; the Prophet himself had
at least two slave-girls. One of them, Mary, was the mother of his
son Ibrahim, who died as an infant. Such a practice was considered
a grave offence in the Roman Empire and carried sentence of death
for the lewd master.
Handing slave-girls to one's son-in-law and father--in-law is
certainly an unusual act; its moral undertones are difficult to
understand unless it is treated as an integral part of Jehad,
which declares it Allah's blessing to a Muiahid, the Muslim
warrior, though to women folk, it is the greatest blight reducing
them to the status of a household chattel, which can be abused,
sold or thrown away. It clearly shows that Jehad is man's tool of
dominance, which seeks to humiliate women for easy and cheap sex.
Appendix
The Islamic view about sex and violence has been camouflaged so
skillfully that vice appears as virtue, wrong as right and dark as
bright. The stark truth is that it is nothing but sexual
psychology, purposely developed to create and sustain Arab
Imperialism. Since its face is being unveiled for the first time
in this book, it is imperative that confusion forms no part of its
description. Therefore, its salient points ought to be reiterated
in terms of modern psychology with reference to its origin, nature
and purpose. The Islamic theory of sexual psychology may be stated
as follows:
Sex and violence are the two pillars that have supported Islam
since its inception. Though in practice, they have wrought havoc
with civilization, in appearance, they represent the apex of
purity, piety and providence.
Islam has blended sex and violence in its doctrine so diligently
that these two elements along with their details, constitute what
may be called "Sexual Psychology."
What is Islamic sexual psychology? To understand this concept one
should refer to the Old Testament. Its fundamentals are to be
found in Genesis 1-3. Stated simply, it means that God made man
(Adam) in His own image. Realising that Adam is lonely, and thus
unhappy, God created woman from Adam's rib. This shows man's
precedence over woman, whose naturally allotted function cannot be
anything but living for man's pleasure. Since woman comes out of
man, she essentially controls his psychological mechanism and
thus, his felicity and frustration come to depend upon her
attitude towards him. She exerts such an enormous influence on man
that he defies God for paying deference to woman. This is how
woman becomes a threat to God and all those who want to be godly.
Therefore, it is the will of God to coerce woman's liberties for
keeping her under the control of man!
In view of the restrictions that Islam has imposed on woman's
rights, it emerges that her ability to provide man with sexual
delight is her competent weapon, which is made lethal by her
virtues of presence, cunningness, flirtation, arts of
beautification, sartorial elegance and modes of self--exhibition.
The combined effect of these skills may be termed as
"Feminine Charm." Of course, it is highly desirable, but
despite being alluring, gratifying and delightful, it is inimical
to man's urge of dominance, which is the fountain of his
greatness, grandeur and glory. A man enslaved by feminine charm
ceases to be manly because he develops womanly characteristics,
which disqualify him as a soldier, a pioneer, an adventurer or a
commander.
Since sex is man's greatest delight, it is unnatural for him to
become an ascetic or practice celebacy. In fact, the more the
chances for a man to enjoy sex, the greater the likelihood for his
happiness, but carnal gratification must not result in man's
surrender to feminine charm. On the contrary, it must reinforce
man's dominance-urge but this is possible only if he can achieve
sexual satisfaction by command, and not by pleading. Thus, there
is a direct clash between man's dominance-urge and woman's
feminine charm. Since dominance-urge is the drive, which enables
him to conquer all challenges, Islam has taken all those legal and
social steps, which deprive woman of her liberties to decimate the
powers of feminine charm; polygamy, purdah, (veiling), man's
superior rights of inheritance, discriminatory privileges in
tendering legal evidence and divorcing woman at will, are some of
the examples.
What is even more stunning is man's prerogative to beat woman when
she fails to delight him or denies him the pleasures that he
demands. Woman-beating is not only a speciality of Islam but a
part of the integral disabilities that this religion inflicts on
woman to make her think of male--persecution as a source of divine
benediction, bliss and beatification. This veneered piety is, in
fact, a form of masochism, which has several forms:
1. It applies to those people, who find sexual gratification in
self-humiliation and physical injury.
2. Its meaning is also extended to the self-damaging behaviour,
which has become the hall-mark of a Muslim woman's piety; her
husband ranks as her metaphoric god and she feels pious, proud and
privileged to make him happy by humiliating herself!
3. Subservient sexual role of Muslim women through self-demotion,
which is a form of masochism, has been prescribed for them by the
Koran: it lays down that women are tillage for men, who are
empowered to use them as they think fit.
Masochism is essentially a form of violence interwoven with sex.
Its more hideous kind is known as sadism, which is a state of mind
requiring sexual excitement or gratification through inflicting
physical pain, including murder Jehad is the culmination of the
Islamic sexual psychology, which motivates a Muslim soldier to
participate in battles for booty - and booty does not mean just
plundered goods but also women and children of the
"enemy." These soldiers of Allah are entitled to use
them sexually; as the social status of these concubines is that of
a household chattel, their masters enjoy carnal pleasures by
command, smashing the fortification of the feminine charm!
Stated briefly, the Islamic concept of sexual psychology is based
on the following facts:
a. Sex is man's greatest delight, which makes him so vulnerable to
feminine charm that he is prone to defy God and deify woman.
b. Man is man because he is endowed with the urge of dominance,
which enables him to fight and command. An uxurious man becomes a
victim of feminine charm and loses his manliness (the fountain of
dominance-urge).
c. Thus, there is an inverse ratio between feminine charm and
dominance urge. The way to strengthen the latter is to weaken the
former through a legal code and social practices.
The Prophet Muhammad was possibly, the greatest national hero that
any country ever produced. His greatness lies in the fact that he
sought personal glory through the elevation of his nation (the
Arabs). To make them dominant, he had to offer them some really
attractive incentive to fight and build an Empire where his word
counts as the law and he himself ranks as the holiest of holiest
The concept of sexual psychology, which uses sex and violence as
its two props, proved to be the perfect source of realising the
Prophetic dreams. This book endeavours to illustrate this
phenomenon in a responsible manner, using reason and evidence as
its guiding principles. It certainly has not been written out of
any animosity to Islam but try serve the cause of humanity
including the Muslims, who claim to be required by the Koran to
promote the cause of truth by argument (2: III) and not coercion
(2: 255).
Here is a challenge for them to demonstrate sincerity of their
faith.
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