Sex with one's wife

29-6-2003 | IslamWeb

Question:

Sexual drive and desire is very powerful desire of body, and a real Muslim should be restricted to her wife only, so it is only the wife who has to satisfy her husband so I have to ask: 1) Can a Muslim husband kiss and lick every part of the body of the Muslim wife (by every part I mean breasts, nipples, lips, vagina, etc.). Sorry for being so much straightforward. 2) Is this necessary to have sex in a single position or it can be performed in any desired way? (Of course the sex will be natural, i.e., in the vagina. 3) Is this necessary to ejaculate sperms within the vagina or it can be ejaculated outside her or on her body on any other part?

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Answer:

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; and may His blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. For the first question, please read Fatwa: 82256 and second question, please, read Fatwa: 82908. Ejaculating outside the vagina of the wife is called in Islam Al-'Azl and it is lawful. Al-Bukhari and Muslim reported from Jabir Ibn Abdullah that he said: "We used to perform Al-'Azl during the era of the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam) and while the Qur'an was still being revealed" . But this permissibility is restricted to the consent of the wife as Al-'Azl might cause her not to satisfy fully her sexual lust or jeopardize her desire to have offspring. For this reason Shariah establishes that Al-'Azl should not be without the consent of the wife. Allah knows best.