# What is al-Suyuti's book about sex? *Al-Suyuti on sex: al-Ghazali's orgasm quote and the two worldly pleasures* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/noe0z72gubs/s/1/ - Date: 2019-07-18 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: My thoughts on Imam Suyuti's book on sex | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:32) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noE0Z72gUbs&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/noe0z72gubs/ **Topics:** Intimacy in marriage; Scholars and imams of the past **Question as asked:** Someone asks about a book on sexology by Imam al-Suyuti. **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Al-Suyuti wrote about sex, including a section on names for the penis, and endorsed a saying that the two greatest worldly pleasures are horse riding and sex. Mufti Abu Layth agrees with al-Ghazali that orgasm is the closest worldly pleasure to those of paradise. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he cannot object to al-Ghazali's point that the closest worldly pleasure to the pleasures of paradise is orgasm. **Evidence, his words at 1:14:** “the pleasures of paradise is an orgasm I totally I cannot object to your mama has early on that point” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noE0Z72gUbs&t=74s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth reads a garbled chat question about a book on sexology by Imam al-Suyuti. He says al-Suyuti is strange in some things and has a section, possibly published as a separate booklet, on the different names for the penis. He describes al-Suyuti commenting on al-Ghazali's statement that the pleasures of paradise are hidden from this world and that the closest pleasure to them is orgasm, and says that, though he disagrees with al-Ghazali on many things, he cannot object to him on that point. He then relates al-Suyuti's quote that the pleasures of this world can be summarised as two, horse riding and sex, with al-Suyuti commenting that this is correct. ## Sources and names cited - al-Suyuti - al-Ghazali - jannah (Paradise) ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–2:32) [0:00] motya rahman says health care italki turn order awake female female reefer technique lease UT which people is a book on the on the knowledge it's a book on sexology by imam silt Imams UT has a strange you know like in some things yeah he has this one section in one of his books and I think it may have been published as a separate kind of Arctic like a small booklet on its own about [0:36] all the different names of a penis he has this and it's an E and he says you know Imam silty when he's commenting on imam al-ghazali's quote on sex so this this is quote where mama Rizzoli says that the pleasures of paradise are hidden from this world like we can't relate to them but the closest pleasure [1:14] to the pleasures of paradise is an orgasm I totally I cannot object to your mama has early on that point as much as I can disagree with the mammals early and many other things but I'll say la la guru and Imams UT comments he brings that quote of his early and then he brings this this quote saying that the pleasures of this world can be summarized into two he says one is [1:51] riding a horse you guessed it people see noting that all of you watching this year are armies so this he says one is horse riding and the other is sex so these are the two greatest pleasures of this world and beauty comments by saying Warsaw and he says and that is correct [2:31] you know deep down these people I swear if I had an opportunity to be in a gathering with these people I would have their darkest secrets open before me within an hour I don't know I have this kind of I don't know if I could call it a gift or a curse that when people are around me they open up the darkest secrets kind of they they open them up in front of me I have this kind of Lucifer effect on people so somebody said I'd get horse-riding butt sex ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment noE0Z72gUbs/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/noe0z72gubs/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.