Extramarital Sexual Intercourse (Fornication & Adultery & Homosexuality)
Adultery, Fornication & Homosexuality is strictly, and repeatedly forbidden in the Qur'an and Hadith. The lack of an English word to encompass all three acts other than the phrase 'extramarital sexual intercourse' leads to much literature (including articles in Wikipedia) using the word adultery to erroneously conveying the word zina used in Arabic which covers all three acts.
"And do not go anywhere near zina (extramarital sexual intercourse): it is an outrage, and an evil path." (Qur'an 17:32)
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Famous quotes containing the words intercourse and/or adultery:
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)