Sex-athon gone wrong

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I heard of fast-athon, but sex-athon? And it gets worse. It’s all happening at a church.  Their marketing pitch is ’seven straight days of sex for married couples’.

Well, I do agree with one thing – bringing back the education of marital relations within the context marriage but planting a bed on the pastor’s stage is a whole other dimension to the plan.

Marital relations, like all other aspects, has it’s place in life and religion.  Priests and Imams (mosque leaders) can take the initiative to educate others but how? Publicly endorsing a sex-athon? Embarrassing to say the least.

Let’s use Prophet Muhammad’s method (peace be upon him) of educating others instead.  There are many pieces of advice that we have and here is just one:

Narrated by Abu Dharr: “Some of the companions of the Prophet said to him: ‘O Messenger of Allaah, the affluent among us have taken the rewards (of the hereafter)! They pray as we pray, fast as we fast, and then they give charity from the surplus of their wealth!” The Prophet said: “Did Allaah not make for you that from which you can give sadaqa? Verily for every time you say Subhannallah (Exalted is Allah) there is a sadaqa, and for every time you say Allahuakbar (Allah is Most Great) there is a sadaqa, and for every time you say Al-Hamdulillah (Praise is to Allah) there is sadaqa, and in every act of enjoining what is right there is sadaqa, and in every act of forbidding what is wrong there is a sadaqa, and in your sexual relations there is a sadaqa.” The Companions said: “O Messenger of Allaah , is there a reward for one of us when he satisfies his sexual desire?” The Prophet said: “Don’t you see, if he had satisfied it with the forbidden, would there not have been a sin upon him?” They said: “Why, yes! He said: “In the same way, when he satisfies it with that which is lawful, there is for him in that a reward.”

[Muslim, an-Nasaa'ee in al-'Ishrah, and Ahamd]

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