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* She should accept what her husband gives her as sufficient sexual needs at any moment.
* She should accept what her husband gives her as sufficient sexual needs at any moment.
* She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband’s sexual needs at any moment.<ref>''The Revival of the Religious Sciences'' Al Ghazzali</ref>
* She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband’s sexual needs at any moment.<ref>''The Revival of the Religious Sciences'' Al Ghazzali</ref>
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Al Ghazzali is revered in history as "The Man Who Saved Islam". For many Islamic scholars, his authority in religious matters is only second to Muhammad. He wrote the following rules about women:

  • She should stay at home and get on with her spinning
  • She can go out only in emergencies.
  • She must not be well-informed nor must she be communicative with her neighbors and only visit them when absolutely necessary.
  • She should take care of her husband and respect him in his presence and his absence and seek to satisfy him in everything.
  • She must not leave her house without his permission and if given his permission she must leave secretly.
  • She should put on old clothes and take deserted streets and alleys, avoid markets, and make sure that a stranger does not hear her voice, her footsteps, smell her or recognize her.
  • She must not speak to a friend of her husband even in need.
  • Her sole worry should be her “al bud” (reproductive organs) her home as well as her prayers and her fast.
  • If a friend of her husband calls when her husband is absent she must not open the door nor reply to him in order to safeguard her “al bud”.
  • She should accept what her husband gives her as sufficient sexual needs at any moment.
  • She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband’s sexual needs at any moment.[1]
  1. The Revival of the Religious Sciences Al Ghazzali