THE BEGINNING OF THE FIFTH PART OF QURÄN (VERSE NO.24 )

      The verse continues with the argument about the unlawful women, adding here that: ``All the married women are unlawful to you.'' In the commandment there is one exception: ``Except those whom your right hand possess.''

      These are the non- Muslim women who are taken captives in the sacred war (JAHÄD) under the commandership of a true and righteous Imam, against those who persecute faith. This is because their captivity is taken as a divorce in this special case.

      In the next part of the verse mention is made of what is called MOT-EH in religious terms which means temporary marriage: ``And as for those women whom you enjoy them by way of MOT-EH (temporary marriage) give them their dowers in full.

TEMPORARY MARRIAGE (MOTEH) IS A SOCIAL NECESSITY

      Lawfulness of the temporary marriage in the life- time of our prophet is a certain matter which has no room for any doubt; and no report has been received to say that the prophet did abrogate the commandment.

      It cannot be denied that the sexual instinct in men and women is the most powerful one among all the other instincts, so much so that some of the psychologists know it to be the principle of the human instincts or the main one. Now one of the most critical problems of our time is that of the sex affairs, particularly in the youths and young generation. This is because the popular necessities demand the period of school and study to be lengthened. Then rare are the youths, young, and students, who can afford to marry, a girl, or a girl to marry a boy, in their lower ages wherein the sexual power is very difficult to be controlled.

      In such a critical condition what is to be done? Should we take fornication and adultery easy, and regard it lawful and shake the foundations of family houses? Or should we accept the temporary marriage which has not the hard conditions of the permanent wedlock, nor the disadvantages of fornication and adultery. Those people who reject the temporary marriage as well as fornication and indecencies, what do they want to do? and what is their proposal? or else do we have to suppress and crush our sexual power and instinct or let it go on free and uncontrolled?