Editing Chastity (section)

====Sharia (Law)====
Chastity is mandatory in Islam. Sex outside legitimacy is prohibited, for both men and women, whether married or unmarried. The injunctions and forbiddings in Islam apply equally to men and women. The legal punishment for adultery is equal for men and women.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Mvelo |first1=Ngema, Nqobizwe |last2=Desan |first2=Iyer |date=2023-03-02 |title=Penalty for Committing Fornication & Adultery (Zina) in Islamic Law as a Violation of Freedom from Torture |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4376178 |url-status=live |journal=OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development |language=en |volume=15 |issue=6 |pages=11–18 |ssrn=4376178 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231030124535/https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4376178 |archive-date=2023-10-30 |via=ELSEVIER}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-01 |title=Sentencing adulterers to death |url=https://islamonline.net/en/sentencing-adulterers-to-death/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=IslamOnline |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Surah An-Nur - 2-12 |url=https://quran.com/en/an-nur/2-12 |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Quran.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sahih Muslim 1690a - The Book of Legal Punishments - كتاب الحدود - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم) |url=https://sunnah.com/muslim:1690a |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=sunnah.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sahih Muslim 1695b - The Book of Legal Punishments - كتاب الحدود - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم) |url=https://sunnah.com/muslim:1695b |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=sunnah.com}}</ref> 

The prophet's prescription to the youth was:
{{Blockquote|text="O young people! Whoever among you can marry, should marry, because it helps him lower his gaze and guard his modesty (i.e. his private parts from committing illegal sexual intercourse etc.), and whoever is not able to marry, should fast, as fasting diminishes his sexual power."|author={{Href|bukhari|5066|b=yl}}}}

Chastity is an attitude and a way of life. In Islam it is both a personal and a social value. A Muslim society should not condone relations entailing or conducive to sexual license. Social patterns and practices calculated to inflame sexual desire are frowned upon by Islam, such incitements to immorality including permissive ideologies, titillating works of art, and the failure to inculcate sound moral principles in the young. At the heart of such a view of human sexuality lies the conviction that the notion of personal freedom should never be misconstrued as the freedom to flout God's laws by overstepping the bounds which, in his infinite wisdom, he has set upon the relations of the sexes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam |url=https://islamicstudies.info/literature/halal-haram.htm |access-date=2024-07-13 |website=islamicstudies.info}}</ref>