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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Defending the Woman's Rights Chapter Eight : Greatest Pleasures Islam has attended to all human needs, not separating man and woman's material and spiritual life. Islam accepts the attractions and beauties of human life in both material and spiritual aspects. It looks positively at the issue of 'enjoyment' and denies the lack of enjoyments in some Sufi and Eastern schools.

It therefore considers marriage and its enjoyments reasonable inside Islamic framework. Islam also considers marriage and its normal pleasures as effective in the human spiritual growth. This Islamic view is not only about some parts of the worldly life; rather all the pleasures and joys of life are viewed as positive, constructive, and valuable in Islam. According to this view, woman is considered as one of the most valuable and attractive parts of the human life.

Phylogeny (fondness of one's wife) is thus considered congruent with the Islamic belief and human spiritual growth, provided that it is moderate and away from extreme fondness in women, which is denied by the common sense and the religion. The woman (one's wife) is introduced as a very enjoyable creature in the Islamic teachings.

Imam Sadiq (a.s) narrated from the Prophet (a.s.): "The delight of my eyes has been made in prayer and my pleasure (has been made) in women." 1 Imam Sadiq (a.s) was asked: "What is the most enjoyable thing?" Everybody said something about this, but Imam Sadiq (a.s) replied, "The most enjoyable thing is the sleeping with women." 2 Surprisingly, the enjoyment of association with women is considered the greatest pleasure of the Hereafter, too, in a tradition narrated from Imam Sadiq (a.s).

Imam Sadiq (a.s) said, "People do never enjoy in this life and the afterlife a pleasure more pleasant than the pleasure of (association or sleeping with) woman ... The inhabitants of the Paradise do not find anything more enjoyable than marriage, which is found neither in foods nor in drinks." 3 As a result, there is no doubt about the acceptance of this kind of pleasure by Islam. In addition to so many spiritual realities, the material daily realities of life are not ignored in Islam.

In fact, anything is defined in its own place and within the religious framework. Defining mere material goals, however, is not acceptable in the Islamic view.