இள வயது ஈரானியர்களின் தேவைக்காக தற்காலிக திருமணங்களை ஆதரிக்க வேண்டும் என்று ஈரானிய தலைவர் கூறியிருக்கிறார்.

இள வயது ஈரானியர்களின் தேவைக்காக தற்காலிக திருமணங்களை ஆதரிக்க வேண்டும் என்று ஈரானிய தலைவர் கூறியிருக்கிறார்.

15வயது இளைஞனின் மனத்தில் கடவுள் காமத்தை கொடுத்தால், இஸ்லாம் அதனை கவனிக்காமல் இருக்கமுடியுமா என்று இவர் கேட்டிருக்கிறார்.

இந்த தற்காலிக திருமணத்தினால் இரண்டு நாளைக்கு மட்டும் இருவர் கணவன் மனைவியாக இருக்கலாமாம்.

சுன்னி பிரிவினர் இது விபச்சாரம் என்று கூறுகிறார்களாம்.

நபிகள் நாயகம் இதனை தடை செய்துவிட்டார் என்று சுன்னிகள் கூறுகிறார்களாம். அவர் இதனை தடை செய்யவில்லை என்று ஷியாக்கள் கூறுகிறார்களாம்.

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Minister backs brief marriages to curb illicit sex
Agencies

Tehran: Iran's interior minister faced criticism from women activists on Saturday after advocating the practice of temporary marriage as a way to meet the needs of
young people in the Islamic state, which bans extramarital sex.

"Is it possible that Islam is indifferent to a 15-year-old
youth into whom God has put lust?" newspapers quoted Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who is also a cleric, as telling a religious seminar this week.

Temporary marriage, or sigha, is an agreement between a manand a women to get married for a specified time, even for just afew days. It has long been practised by Shiite Muslims, who are dominant in Iran, even though it is unclear how common it is.

Sunni Muslims say it is illegal and akin to prostitution,
but some Shiites scholars say it reflects the reality of human
nature and provides for the rights and responsibilities of both
the man and the woman.

"Although temporary marriage has always existed in our law,
it is considered improper by Iranian culture," Shadi Sadr, an
Iranian activist for women rights, told the ISNA news agency.

Pourmohammadi spoke on Thursday in Qom, Iran's religious
centre, and his comments were carried mainly by reformist
dailies on Saturday. They also published reaction, mostly from opponents of the practice but also from some clerical backers.

"Islam is a comprehensive and complete religion and has a
solution for every behaviour and need and temporary marriage is one of its solutions for the needs of the youth," Pourmohammadi said according to the Sharq daily.

"For fulfilling the sexual desires of the youth who do not
have the possibility to get married a decision should be taken."

A temporary marriage is easy to arrange. A couple will agree
on how long they will get married - it's usually anywhere from
a day to months - and on financial matters.

Couples often go to a Shiite cleric for approval of the
contract. The practice is believed to have pre-dated Islam among the tribes of the Arabian peninsula.

"A great number of women who agree to have temporary
marriage do it because of their problems and financial need,"
another women activist, Fatemeh Sadeghi, told ISNA.

The Ham Mihan daily quoted a receptionist at a hotel in
Tehran as saying it accepted couples with documents showing they were temporarily married and that it had about 100 such guests per week. "Our clients are young men with older women," he said.

Both Sunni and Shiite scholars agree that the Prophet
Mohammad (PBUH) did at certain times allow it. But Sunni scholars say the Prophet later banned it. Most Shi'ites say he didn't.

"In this kind of marriage there is no force, therefore we
can not say it is violating women's rights," one Iranian cleric,
Hojjatoleslam Ahmad Ghabel, told Sharq.

But a female former parliamentary deputy, Fatemeh Rakei,
suggested that entering into a temporary marriage made it
difficult for young women to later find permanent husbands and also expressed concern about the future of children from such marriages.

"We should expect violations and repercussions if we do not practically respond to young people's sexual needs," the centrist Kargozaran daily quoted Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi as saying.

Seminary study

Pourmohammadi said Iran should seek to promote the practice with "boldness" and urged seminary scholars to study the matter and come up with ways to "execute God's command in society".

"We should not be afraid of promoting temporary marriages in a nation that is being governed by the rule of God."

Critics condemn 'sigha' as tantamount to prostitution, but clerics argue it is merely a more spiritual way of addressing basic human urges.

Sixty per cent of Iran's population is under 30 years of age and the average age of marriage has risen to 30 for men and 26 for women, according to unofficial estimates.