The Obedient Wives Club (OWC) broke its silence on the controversial sex guide book today, arguing that the publication is not against Islamic teachings.
“There are those who are attempting to deviate from the material without even consulting us on the purpose of the book,” said the book’s author Hatijah Aam via tele-conferencing from Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The pocket sized 128-page book – that caused a storm two weeks ago – was purely to educate Muslims on appropriate sexual conduct, said Hatijah.
The publication titled ‘Seks Islam; Perangi Yahudi Untuk Kembalikan Seks Islam Kepada Dunia’ (Islamic Sex; fighting against Jews to return Islamic sex to the world) was produced “out of responsibility to provide an answer to those who have ruined their faith by practicing illegitimate sex,” she said.
The cover of the book has a picture the late Ashaari Muhammad, the banned Al-Arqam leader.
OWC’s Malaysian chapter chairperson Fauziah Ariffin (left), who held the media conference to explain the contents of the book, insisted that it is meant to heighten knowledge on attaining the utmost from carnal desires.
One aspect of the publication that was highly publicised was that the content that encouraged Muslim men, who are permitted by the religion to marry up to four wives, to have sex with themsimultaneously.
“This is a misunderstanding; the book states that a man who has reached his highest spiritual capability can have sex with all his wives simultaneously, spiritually.
“We never said that he can have sex with all his wives at one go, that is haram (illegal),” said Fauziah.
Spiritual or physical?
Malay-language daily Berita Harian, the first to break the news about the book, reported that the OWC’s book encourages a Muslim husband to have group sex with all his wives.
An extract of the content at the back cover states: “Selaku pemimpin roh, kebolehan yang Allah izinkan kepada mereka ialah boleh serentak dengan semua isteri-isteri melakukan hubungan jenis. Manakala kalau isteripun orang roh, lagilah hebat.
“Ke mana-mana terbang untuk atau sambil melakukan hubungan sulit itu dalam keadaan lebih nikmat dan lebih ringan dibanding dengan perlakuan yang menggunakan fizikal. Untuk itulah Abuya sedang proses isteri-isterinya ke arah roh.”
(Just as for spiritual leaders, the ability that Allah has permitted to them is to be able to engage in sex simultaneously with all his wives. And if the wife is also a spiritual person, all the better. Where ever one wanders while engaging in that private act is even more pleasurable and lighter compared to a physical act. That is the reason Abuya (Ashaari) is trying to set the wives on the spiritual path.)
The founders of the controversial OWC, set up to teach Muslim wives to please their husbands in order to ensure the latter’s fidelity, were also behind the now defunct Polygamy Club set up in 2009.
Fauziah noted that the book, which is limited to members only, may be “hard to digest” for those without “in-depth spiritual knowledge”.
“It is good for Muslims but the reason it is only for members is because we want our members to be well-versed with the content before it is exposed to the public at large,” she said at the 90-minute media conference in Petaling Jaya.
She insisted that OWC’s objective was to enable members to attain the “highest spiritual energy” and their experts had spent years researching various religious texts before coming out with the book.
“At the same time not with all four (wives) in a room, (the) wives have (sex) together. If it is prostitution, then they will book two, four (women) altogether,” said Hatijah.
“But in Islam there can’t be, it is not the practice of the Prophet to (have sex with all his wives) simultaneously. That’s a lie, a misunderstanding,” she said, referring to previous media reports.
She again repeated that the sex was not physical but “spiritual”.
“What was meant was that when humans are able to achieve a level where the heart is developed and the soul is nourished, that is when there is spiritual activity occurring among men of God or those who are engrossed in it,” she said.
Clearly frustrated by the “wrong image” portrayed in the media, Hatijah slammed critics for saying its content was far too explicit.
In one of the chapters, where it described how the fondling of the breast can arouse strong emotions, Hatijah said “sex would be an animal-like act without any form of foreplay”.
She even cited a BBC report from last year that said that whenever men suck women’s breasts, they (women) stand a lower risk of getting breast cancer.
“Sex is also a form of exercise, it uses up all the muscles and it is relaxing. It is also the most entertaining,” Hatijah exclaimed.
Committee member Dr Azlina Jamaluddin reiterated that there was “nothing taboo about the content of the book as it sought to educate, not propagate, illegitimate sex”.
“Sexual intercourse between a husband and wife is the highest duty in Islam… to get the utmost out of it we have to gain knowledge,” Azlina said.
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