'Eat and drink, but do not exceed the limits'. 'O believers! When it is said to you, 'Make room!' in your gatherings, make room Al'lah will make room ample for you and when it is said to you, 'Arise!' then arise.' (58:12) Say: 'All good things are lawful for you''. 'You are forbidden the flesh of an animal that dies of its own accord, and the blood and flesh of swine the flesh of those slaughtered by calling on a name other than Al'lah the flesh of an animal that has been strangled the flesh of an animal that has been beaten to death the flesh of an animal that has died of a fall and the flesh of an animal that has been gored to death the flesh of an animal that has been partially devoured by a wild beast - unless you have slaughtered it properly - and animals slaughtered on an altar'. Therefore turn away from them all, that you may prosper' (5:91). 'O you who believe! Intoxicants, gambling, idols and arrows of fortune are but an abomination of the works of Satan. 'When you are greeted with a greeting, return it with a better one, or at least with one equal to it'. 'You must enter houses by their gates.' (2:190) And if it is said to you, 'Go back,' then go back. And if you find no one in them, do not enter until you are given permission. 'O you who believe! Do not enter houses other than your own until you have asked permission and greeted their dwellers.

The Holy Quran forbade this custom, to which the phrase 'keeping secret mistresses' refers. In the time of ignorance if a man had no children he allowed his wife to cohabit with another man in order to have children. 'And chaste believing women are permitted to you, and the chaste women of those to whom the Book was given before you, if you give them their dowries, contract a valid marriage, do not commit fornication, and do not keep secret mistresses.' (5:6) 'And do not marry the women whom your fathers have taken as wives, unless it is a fait accompli'. 'O you who believe! It is not lawful for you to inherit from women against their will'. 'Your mothers, your daughters, your sisters, the sisters of your fathers and the sisters of your mothers, the daughters of a brother and the daughters of a sister, your wet nurses who have suckled you, your milk sisters, the mothers of your wives, your goddaughters, who are your wards because they are the daughters of the women with whom you have cohabited - but if you have not cohabited with them, you do not commit sin - and the wives of your children of the flesh And it is forbidden for you to marry two sisters at the same time, unless it is a fait accompli'. This reform deals with what are commonly called the 'good manners', i.e., the social norms that moderate the natural conditions of savages, such as eating, drinking, marrying, etc., raising them to a just level of social acceptability and removing savages from their animal existence.

We will now consider the first of the three reforms instilled by the Holy Quran, which concerns the natural state of man. The first reform: the natural states of man.

Carla jimenez now