Doubts About Feeling Of Lust And The Purpose Of Marriage
Yes it is possible to have feelings of love and affection without lust. We love our parents, siblings and our kids without any such feeling. As far as one’s spouse is concerned, then it is not always lust, it is genuine love and affection and yes, lust also plays a vital role in certain matters and in such matters expression of lust is not wrong. For other people in the opposite gender who are not spouse and still eligible for marriage legally or from religious point, Islam suggests norms of gender interaction so that if lust starts to surge, then it can be contained by following those etiquettes. Feeling lust is not wrong but expressing it in front of wrong people is a sin. Besides, lust is not the kind of feeling which exists all the time, but whenever one feels it at wrong occasions, one is required to suppress it. Staying in these bounds is what is required in Islam.