Quote from: NewFreeMind on May 31, 2016, 09:55:48 AM
BOLD: That was brought up because you made the verse about sexual intercourse with the following statement
UNDERLINE:I have clearly asked a similar question previously on the assumptions that you made about men not approaching women for intercourse.
In the above, I asked the same thing... why is that you're assuming it has to be sexual intercourse when it's not explicitly said, it can also mean not approaching them at all, not talking to them or anything similar. However, you have emphasised on the act of sexual intercourse; I am simply confused as to why you choose this when it's not mentioned and according to your previous replies God can't be ignorant to forget to mention such things.
Salaam
About the list you write ofthings it could mean, it is your list, about excluding sexual relations from the entence I will say it again: you cannot not get near the women if you do that, so you are already trespassing the command to keep off them and to not get near them. You do have to get near them if you are going to have intercourse. There is no way around that. It is not that I want this or that. In fact I could not care less, but in order to not include sexual intercourse (anybody can hardly get any nearer than that) the aya would have to be reformulated.
So there is no forgetting at all to mention sexual
intercourse.it is already clear a it is, but if aproaching the women for sexual intercourse were allowed then it should have been explicitly mentionned. Because sexual intercourse is definitely getting as near the women as it gets and there is not way that you can get around that. Of all the other things you mentionned the question could still be open: How near is it getting near?
As I also said before: the thing can be simpler: Dont bother them,don't inconvenience them, don't push them over, don't be a nuisance to them and that should of course include coming on them with sex demands.
This, like so many things in the Qur'an, are quite simple, matters of common sense, but must be mentionned because not everybody has as much common sense or is mindful of others' persons state of mind or temper.
Salaam