What's So Great About Celibacy? Could Prophet Mohammad Have Been Celibate In His Later Years As Mr. Mohammad Yunus Thinks?
By
Sumit Paul, New Age Islam
22 June
2022
All Religions
(Including Islam) Are Sadistically Anti-Pleasure and Have an Extremely Pervert
Fear of Sex
Main
Points:
1. 1. Celibacy is an ineluctable condition for a religious person or a monk.
2.
Islam being the
youngest of three Semitic faiths, observed the sexul capers of the so-called
celibate Rabbis and Christian priests.
3.
I appreciate Islam
for being in sync with nature. Celibacy is an ineluctable condition for a
religious person or a monk, and Islam doesn't approve of Rahbaaniyat or
monkhood either.
4.
Not producing
offspring is possible sans observing or practising celibacy in the usual sense
of the word.
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Mr Muhammad
Yunus' most unctuous, speculative and a sort of might-NOT-have-been article
on Prophet Muhammad's imaginary celibacy is against the fundamental tenets of Islam
which JUSTIFIABLY discourages celibacy (Al-Euzuba in Arabic). In fact,
on this count, I appreciate Islam for being in sync with nature. Celibacy is an
ineluctable condition for a religious person or a monk, and Islam doesn't
approve of Rahbaaniyat or monkhood either. So, what does Mr Yunus want
to prove?
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Also
Read: Was Hazrat
Aisha Married to the Prophet in Her Childhood?
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Well,
before that, it's better to understand the very concept of Celibacy or
Brahmacharya. Brahmacharya is sexual abstinence due to religion. All religions (including
Islam) are sadistically Anti-Pleasure and have an extremely pervert fear of
sex. Having sex is tantamount to committing an unforgivable sin. That's why,
the deluded Adi Shankaracharya wrote a long treatise on celibacy and when he
defeated redoubtable Mandana Mishra and even his blue-stalking ( no doubt, she
was very erudite) wife in a religious discourse, she asked him whether he (Adi
Shankara) experienced Kama. When Shankar said he didn't experience Kama,
Mishra's wife advised him to experience it to be a complete man. Shankara did
some abstruse transmigrational sex (!), but didn't ' defile' his own body. The
moral of the story is that sex was seen as a defilement of soul, spirit and
sacredness. Celibacy put an emphasis on conserving Veerya (Sanskrit for
Semen or Nutfa in Arabic). Eastern religions, esp. Hinduism and Jainism,
made it a point to spread an erroneous notion that semen was the source of
vital (divine) energy. So, it must be conserved in order to serve the god, as
if your god had nothing to do except for finding the ' defilement of your loin'
(an archaic 18th-century euphemism for the loss of semen).
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Interestingly,
there's still a word in Hindi/Sanskrit: Nirveerya ( Ni+Veerya) for an
impotent man. Ergo, eastern religious practitioners tried their level best to
retain semen as its emission in any form (even through nocturnal emission, Ehtelaam
or Musht Zani/Jalaq: masturbation) was looked down upon as sin! Such
sanctimonious people created a phrase Ojaswi (Oj: the 'divine glow' on the face
that comes only to those who don't let their semen come out of their body!).
Needless to say, it was all rubbish.
Islam being
the youngest of three Semitic faiths, observed the sexual capers of the
so-called celibate Rabbis and Christian priests. Because of this, Islam
prescribed marriage even for its clergy and there's no religiously sanctioned
concept of a Salabit (an unmarried person, a priestly celibate or a
person who abstains from sexual intercourse).
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So, when
celibacy is not a laudable trait in Islam, why're you accruing it to Muhammad?
Moreover, how can you be sure that Muhammad didn't indulge in sex after a
certain period? He may have resorted to Al-Azl (withdrawal method or
coitus interruptus) as he himself suggested this to his early followers as an
effective contraceptive method.
Furthermore,
sex is not all about penetration or ejaculation. One can call oneself a
celibate, indulging in non-penetrative or dry humping. Not producing offspring
is possible sans observing or practising celibacy in the usual sense of the
word. Lastly, what's so great about not having sex? You eat, when you're
hungry. You drink, when you're thirsty. Likewise, you indulge in having sex
when your body needs it.
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Also Read: Hazrat Aisha’s Controversial Age at Marriage: Nine or
Nineteen?
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From the
medical perspective, celibacy has many ill-effects. It may cause prostrate
cancer among the male celibates and frigidity and hysteria among female
practitioners. It also results in a raft of sexual perversions. World-renowned
medical journal 'Lancet' carried an editorial on the stupidity and utter
futility of celibacy in its January 1978 edition and urged people to abstain
from practising celibacy. It went on to call it a Hormo-emotional masochism and
a deliberate act of self-infliction.
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A regular columnist for New Age Islam, Sumit Paul
is a researcher in comparative religions, with special reference to Islam. He
has contributed articles to world's premier publications in several languages
including Persian.
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