Who deserves to be Worshiped ?

12.9 Family structure and rights
Islam teaches that children should be born within a legal marriage and that sexual
desire should be controlled and contained within these parameters.
To uphold the family structure and the well-being of society, the Quran prohibits
fornication because it is one of the worst assaults on a person’s honour and dignity.
It is something which causes disease and produces children who are looked upon by
society as ‘illegitimate’. Likewise, the Quran forbids everything which leads to
fornication, so it prohibits behaviour like looking at pornographic pictures and being
alone with members of the opposite sex who are not mahrams. 31 It also commands
that men lower their gaze and not look or stare at women whom they have no right
to look at. Muslim women thus enjoy protection and security and can be confident
that Muslim men will not even look at her if they are not permitted to. Likewise,
women should not gaze at men unlawfully.
12.10 Decency and veiling
With this same reasoning, Islam enjoins morality in behaviour and appearance.
Fashions that reduce women to sex objects are not acceptable. Islamic veiling is a
means of protection from unwanted external attention. Allah says in the Quran:
{O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to
bring down over themselves [part] of their outer garments. That is more suitable that
they will be known and not be abused...} (Quran 33: 59)
In the privacy of their own homes and in the presence of their husbands, when
they will receive only the type of attention they desire, women may wear whatever
they wish.
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mahram: a man with whom marriage is not permitted; for example, a woman’s brother
or father. Non-mahram men are those whom a woman is permitted to marry.
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