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required for successful marriage is officially untaught, especially in Muslim
venues, and will remain so unless I and others write these books. Therefore,
and as a Medical Doctor, my priority is to provide a remedy for this endemic
heart disease, hoping the reader will be sufficiently encouraged by the first
chapter to seek the greater medicine that follows.
The Islamic perspective and religious instruction guide men and women
towards the peaceful acknowledgement-of and reconciliation-with their
Creator, His creation, and all living creatures except those who hate or deny
God. Those who follow Islam’s precepts become the “Peacemakers” whom
Prophet Isa spoke of on the mount of beatitudes.^2 Nevertheless, Islam is far
more than a religion. It is, in the final analysis, the perfected socially oriented
discipline of conformity to truth whereby men and women are charged to
constantly adjust their thoughts and activities towards the goal of
maintaining these peaceful relations in consummate harmony with nature
according to knowledge, or to war, according to the same knowledge, when
injustice inevitably threatens this peace. As such, Islam encompasses all
science and never deviates from acknowledging Allah swt as creation’s Source
rather than Being, and His prophets and angels as messengers of the divine
revelation.
With respect to human sexuality and reproduction, Islam regards relations
between men and women as holy, a word that means ‘reserved for God’.^3
Therefore, sincere and informed Muslims take exceptional care to guard this
estate according to divine revelation and the examples of the prophets.
Human reproduction is a repetitive miracle for the Muslim, as are all
recapitulations of this ontology within the animal kingdoms. At the same
time however, it is both a phenomenon of great mystery and commonality.
The latter fact causes many to take it for granted and even abuse it in
manners that are repugnant to anyone who has retained common sense.
Therefore, and bearing these thoughts in mind, the purpose of this little book
is to remind, encourage, inform and exhort readers to understand why they
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‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.’ (Matt. 5:9). The translators
have overlooked the contextual allegorical implication of the phrase ‘sons of God’, for what it
meant according to traditionl Judaic theology is “servants of God” or sons of consolation, or
even True Pharisees. Therefore, ‘Peacemakers’ are those who make peace with their Maker.
See: Forgotten Saints , Omar Zaid, AS Nordeen, 2010.
(^3) holy adj. ( holier , holiest ) morally and spiritually excellent or perfect, and to be revered;
belonging to, devoted to, or empowered by, God; consecrated, sacred. Oxf. Dict. 10th Ed.