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With respect to intimacy, the wife is to make herself de-
sirable; to be attractive, responsive, and cooperative. A wife
may not deny herself to her husband, for the Qur'an speaks
of them as a comfort to each other. Due consideration is, of
course, given to health and decency, rnoreover, the wife is
not permitted to do anything that may render her compan-
ionship less desirable or less gratifying. If she does any such
thina or neslects herself, the husband has the right to inter-
fere with her freedom to rectify the situation. To insure max-
imum self-fulfilment for both partners, he is not permitted to
do anything on his pan that may impede her gratification.
4, Parent-Child Relationship
A. The Child's Rights: The Parent's Duties. Islam's
general approach to children may be summarized in a few
principles. First, it is a Divine injunction that no child may
become the cause of harm to the parents (Qur'an, 2:233).
Seeondly, by irnplication the parents should reciprocate and
cause the child no harm either. The Qur'an recognizes very
clearly that parents are not always immune from overprotec-
tiveness or negligence. On the basis of this recognition, it
has. thirdly, established certain guidelines and pointed out
certain facts with respect to children. It points out that chil-
dren are joys of life as well as sources of pride, seeds of van-
ity and false securky, fountains of distress and temptation.