and man.
In some narrations too, spiritual sociability was regarded the factor of creation of the couple, like the following one:
"Then He created for him "Adam" Hawwa "Eve"... Adam said: O my lord, what is this nice creature? I fell so pleased with it, and looking at it. Allah said: O Adam this is My bondswoman "slave" Eve... do you like she be with you so as to entertain you, and talk to you? He replied: Yes my lord, if you do this to me I will be grateful and thankful to you as long as I am alive." 8
Satisfying the Sexual Instinct
One of main instincts of man being the sexual instinct to which and whose position the Islamic Law "Shari'ah" has paid good attention and consideration. In fact Islam's realistic view and attention to the sexual instinct excites so much wonder.
Masadah Ibn Sadaqah is reported to have said: I have heard that AlImaam AsSaadiq was once asked: Why don't you regard the adulterer as kaafir "disbeliever" while using this term for the prayersforsaker. What is the cause of this? AlImaam AsSaadiq replied: The incentive that pushed the adulterer to commit that sin "adultery" being the bestial passion "Libido" that overcame him, but the incentive that made the prayerforsaker to abandon prayers is only belittling and despising the Salaat. The fornicator gets pleasure from the act he practises, and what he intended to gain of his act was only sensual pleasure, while it is not so in case of prayers, as his intention can never be pleasure. 85
In another hadeeth, in a reply to the same question, AlImaam AsSaadiq said:
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84. Wasa'il As-Shi'ah, vol. XIV, p. 3, Hadeeth 3.
85. ibid., vol. XIV, p. 2, Hadeeth I.