When a Turkish married man took to the line recently to ask an Islamic televangelist Mucahid Cihad Han about his compulsive masturbation obsession, which he could not even resist while on pilgrimage, the preacher asked him to refrain from this urge, saying that it may cause his hand to be pregnant in afterlife, according to a recent report by Huffington Post.
Hearing the man’s plight, Han stated that masturbation is forbidden in Islam and went on to give his rationale:
“Moreover, one hadith states that those who have sexual intercourse with their hands will find their hands pregnant in the afterlife, complaining against them to God over its rights”.
The preacher’s rationale immediately set off a firestorm on social media with many taking to satirize his rationale. One Twitter user asked:
“Are there any hand-gynaecologists in the afterlife? Is abortion allowed there?”
Masturbation is always a controversial subject in Islam and many preachers equate it with satan’s temptation.
The subject is also a taboo among other Western monotheistic religions or legislature that claim to derive their political base from conservative constituents.
In 1994, US President Bill Clinton demanded the resignation of the first African American Surgeon General, Jocelyn Elders when she broached the subject of masturbation in an AIDS conference as a solution to many young HIV victims and unwanted teenage pregnancies in the United States.
In his autobiography ‘My Life’ Bill Clinton reminisces that he was forced to sack the Surgeon General due to immense pressures from the Republican controlled Congress. He wrote that he has since regretted his actions and begged Jocelyn for forgiveness.
Sources: Huffington Post and LA Times
