Thanks so much for your comment sis. I’m grateful.

First of all, I’d like you to know that this is not the first time I’ll be writing on the topic of Muslim women’s sexuality. And I don’t write without doing research. Did you read my article in Amaliah for example? The link is in this article.

You mentioned that you don’t have access to books and that you’ve only learned from gatherings of knowledge. This is however not the case with me. And it would have really helped to not assume that I have no access to books and/or other resources just because most of them are written in Arabic, which is actually not the case.

You mentioned that I slandered the scholars… Can you state which scholars I slandered and what slanderous comments I made about them? Because the word slander is a big word.

Except we want to pretend that the topic of the Muslim woman’s sexuality in our Muslim communities is not treated with flippancy and more as a duty than a right, especially by people of knowledge, I have said nothing wrong in my article to warrant the allegation against me.

If you read my article as well as the other ones I’ve written, you would have seen that I particularly quoted some books on sexual relations in Islam written by scholars who approached the topic more positively, but perhaps you decided to omit that part.

An Islamic scholar is anyone who has spent a considerable number of years studying and teaching Islam. What’s your own definition of a scholar or using your words, what’s your criteria?

It is obvious that you came to read my article with ill intent, deliberately ignoring the main message I was trying to pass. Allah knows best. And thanks once again to you and Nusaybah A.