Abstract

Purpose: This paper aims to address the important principles of the legal rules of sexual relations and try to review this issue from a legal and ethical dimension from an Islamic law viewpoint. Design: Considering the theosophical generalities of divine legislation and regardless of any common customary dogmas, we tried to elaborate on the issues. We based the Holy Quran as the mostly reference source to avoid different sects’ debates on the subjects. Findings: Regarding matters such as the humanistic equality of men and women, the rights of marriage, polygamy, divorce and death, extramarital relations, sexual harassment, rape, homosexuality, transgendered, transvestism, bisexual are examined from an Islamic law viewpoint. Moreover, the ethical issues of male and female hijab are considered. We also touch on some other related legal issues, such as inheritance and death, and their effects on the man-woman relationship. Research Limitations: The delicacies of Islamic law in this field are too much to be proposed in detail. Practical Implications: This resolution summarizes the main controversial topics in man-woman relations. Since Islamic law emanated from natural law, it offers the most consistent principles in the subject. This paper concludes that the main principle in the man-woman relationship should be based on the commitments of both man and woman to the consequences of their relationship. Social Implications: Complex and unwise rules touching the man-woman relations in different societies would not push the societies to the right natural way. So, a consolidated set of rules are to be adopted to save the human beings’ generation. Surely those sexual relationships which do not lead to the birth of a child practically should not be donated extra rights than what exists for regular relations of the people in the society. Originality/Value: The subject of this paper is not new, but the approach of the paper to the subject is different from conventional controversies.

Keywords: Couples rights, Sexual relations, Ethics, Islamic law, LGBT, Transgender, Gender law