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couples who can prove they are living together. The new inheritance rights will also apply to brothers and sisters who share a home.29 In modem times, it is the concept of unlimited freedom which has led to the acceptance of homosexuality and the breakdown of the traditional institution of marriage. A clever phrase has even been coined to denote the sexual relations established between man and man and woman and woman: sexual preference. But the consequences of this deviation from the natural order have been nothing short of evil. In truth, there is only one right path for man to follow and that is the natural order shown to us by the prophets of God. No one who deviates from this path can hope to be spared from its evil consequences. The West has had to pay a doubly high price for its transgressions. By exposing the delicate female sex to the strong male world, it has permanently lowered their status. What Dr. Louise F. Montgomery has said about the status of women in the publishing world is true also of American women in all spheres of life: Women in the United States remain in the lower ranks in the newspaper hierarchy. Even in TV news programmes, the leaders who influence Americans are males.30 An even greater harm done by deviation from nature has been the fatal degeneration arising from the innumerable evils of widespread sexual promiscuity in the developed world. Notes 1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 12 pp. 919-920. 2. Ian Nicolson, Astronomy, 1978. 3. AI-Bukhari, Sahih, Abwab al-Kusuf, (Fath al-Bari, 2/424). 4. Ibid., 2/437. 5. Ibn Kathir, Al-Bidayah wa an-Nihayah (Beirut, 1932), 7/111. 6. Bible, Genesis, 2:7-22. 7. Bible, Genesis, 3:1-24. 8. Qur’an, 7:19-25. 9. Encyclopaedia Britannica (1984), vol. 3, p. 1040. 10. Ibid., vol. 3, pp. 1040-42. 11. Ibid., vol. 16, p. 599. 12. An-Nasa’i, Sunan, Kitab ‘Ishrah an-Nisa’, 7/61. 13. Alexis Carrel, Man, The Unknown (London,1984), p. 91. 14. Qur’an, 3:83. 15. Qur’an, 55:7-9. 16. Qur’an, 57:25.