Sacha Baron Cohen: it’s permissible to have relations with a woman who is your slave

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Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The Quran is full of prescriptive solutions for dealing with guilt and and shame and the mercifulness of Allah when failing any test of human decency. Typical sentence structure:

Do not do this thing for it is bad. This other thing is more good and is done by those who are most good. But he who does not do this thing that is good and instead does the thing that is bad, he cannot be blamed for it is not his fault. And he who does neither, but instead a more bad thing, he may be forgiven for Allah is merciful.

The bolded part is the reason for the liberal infatuation with Islam.

Sounds like Christianity where they think they can sin as much as they want because they believe a Prophet will be punished instead of them. Or Atheism where they reject the Day of Judgement entirely and adopt a meaningless life of unregulated hedonism.

The fact that God is the Most Merciful, and that He forgives our sins, doesn't mean that sinning is permissible because its not a guarantee. It just means that if we're struggling to avoid it then we shouldn't despair over the mercy of God but we can't just persist assume it will be forgiven. The Qur'an also teaches that good deeds make up for it, so we're simply taught to be as righteous as we can.