concept

Chastity

Beliefs & concepts

The named virtue of rightly ordered sexual and bodily desire. Not continence as restraint alone, and not celibacy as a life-state refuse.

Islam

  • Chastity appears in Islam.

    The Qur’an praises those who guard their chastity and condemns unlawful sexual approach. Islamic chastity speech in that revelation, not modesty as gaze/covering alone and not a Christian virginity dump.

    from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Qur’an · M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation)

    M.A.S. Abdel Haleem, The Qur’an (Oxford).