Can female genital mutilation be considered a wrong and harmful practice, given that it may remove a woman's sexual desire, cause her to lose the desire to marry, lead to her non-responsiveness to her husband in sexual relations, deprive the man of enjoyment, and may push her towards sexual deviance, negatively affecting family stability and contradicting a woman's innate nature?
The legal circumcision for women does not diminish their desire, but rather moderates it. It involves cutting the upper part of the skin without exaggeration, unlike Pharaonic circumcision. Hind bint Utbah's statement, "Or does a free woman commit adultery?" indicates a strong disapproval of adultery, not that free women do not commit it. Ibn al-Qayyim mentioned female circumcision in his book "Tuhfat al-Mawdud." The verses forbid speaking about Allah without knowledge, as it is the root of polytheism, disbelief, and innovations.
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