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. ---- 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? ----------------------------------------------------------- Also Read: Was Hazrat Aisha Married to the Prophet in Her Childhood? ----------------------------------------------------------- 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). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also Read: “Despite The Highly Sexualized Image Of Him In The West, The Multiply Married Muhammad Was Celibate” - Lesley Hazleton: A Fresh Insight Into Prophet Muhammad’s Conjugal Relations With His Later Wives That Has Spawned A Great Deal Of Controversy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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). ----------------------------------------------------------- Also Read: In Defence Of The Prophet's Marriage With Hazrat Ayesha Even If She Was A Minor, According To A Hadees Report Narrated By A Single Person, That Too A Senile Old Man ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Also Read: Hazrat Aisha’s Controversial Age at Marriage: Nine or Nineteen? ----------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---- 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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