Comments on: More AIDS and Islam

By: Al-Muhajabah

Al-Muhajabah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Back in December 2002, I had four posts on my blog about Muslims and AIDS:

number1 focuses on compassion to those who have repented for past wrongs

number2 story of a man who re-evaluated his life after contracting HIV and accepted Islam

numbah3
guidelines for Muslims in dealing with HIV/AIDS issues

number4 following Islamic rules as a means of prevention

[re-entered - bG]

By: Zack

Zack — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t understand. How can a spouse refusing intercourse be a serious plank for AIDS prevention? And I am saying this as someone who thinks a wife has the right to refuse (with the caveat that if she really doesn’t have to have intimate relations with her husband she should think about divorce).

Dr.Wadud’s presentation seems to be geared towards controversy rather than actually thinking about AIDS prevention.

OTOH most Muslims think AIDS is for kafirs and is not a serious disease to be fought against.

By: Sadin

Sadin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was actually quite disturbed by the lack of emphasis by Dr. Wadud on the husband’s own lack of Islamic practice – the fact that he committed adultery.

Islam itself outlaws adultery – had there been adherence to the Quran and Sunnah, the husband would have not contracted AIDS in the first place. In fact, barring blood transfusion and unclean needles in hospital, all other methods of contracting AIDS are all associated with sins in Islam, are they not [Casual Sex, Homosexuality and Drug Abuse?]

By: peter

peter — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I generaly disagree with the comment posted by Zack and Sadin on June 27 2003 and also point out that the same can be said from a Christian perspective.Aids is,like it or not indescriminant with regard to its selection of victims. Therefore society’s responsibility is to either “embrace” the victims, educate the population in the fight and protection against aids OR if it is prefered all aids victims and high risk groups such as sex workers, adulterers, homosexuals, intravenous drug users be quarantined, which is in effect another form of divorce.

By: Aleph Maqsurah

Aleph Maqsurah — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Aminah Wudud only wishes to advance her agenda of promoting “re-interpretation” [i.e TAHREEF in the Quraan and Sunnah]. The other speakers ought to have taken her up on her bluff and asked her to provide exact statistics of how many women have been infected with AIDS because they believed that refusing to have sex with their AIDS infected husbands was sin or failing that even a few easily verifiable examples of such God-fearing women who knowingly had sex with their AIDS infected husbands because it would be a contravention of their husband’s Islamic rights if they refused. I don’t think there are ANY.

In answer to her twisted logic the Muslims can say:

Firstly: The man whose wife always satisfies him is much less likely to contract AIDS in the first place, such a person is less likely to frequent brothels or even to have homosexual sex or to use drugs [and share syringes]. SO the Islamic law reduces the spread of AIDS.

Secondly: It is allowed to eat haraam to save your life if you are dying of hunger and there is no halaal food available. In the same way it would be allowed for a wife to do the haraam act of refusing to have sex with her husband inorder to prevent contraction of a life threatening disease.