That means it acceptable for an Islamic man to have sex with the corpse of his dead wife. It's also acceptable, provided it's possible, for an Islamic woman to have sex with the corpse of her dead husband.
But hey, don't take my word for it, take the word of Sheikh Zamzari Abdelbari, an Islamic scholar and Imam from Morocco. According to him, the marriage bonds are not severed by death. That is because the Koran explicitly states that a man and his wife-wives where applicable-will be together in paradise after both have died. Therefore, they are still married, even during that time when one might be separate from the other.
Now, granted, it is disgusting, he concedes, and should be avoided-but there it is. It is halal, and thus acceptable. And not to put too fine a point on the matter, but he didn't say all this in the course of a casual conversation over some hookah at a local Casablanca juice bar. No, this declaration comes from the imam in the form of a a fatwa.
But naw, we shouldn't worry that these people might take the words of the Koran too literally, or maybe completely out of context, should we now?
