The central issue of this article is the analysis of the meaning of chastity in the Islamic jurisprudence and ethics. In its moral term, chastity is "self-restraint against sensual desires" and moderation in the use of sensuality, and adherence to it does not stop at adherence to specific religious devotions And it is achieved by ruling the intellect over carnal desires. In the science of jurisprudence, regardless of the proposal of the same moral meaning by some jurists, we are also faced with a narrower jurisprudential meaning, which some other jurists have proposed. According to this jurisprudential meaning, chastity is achieved by abandoning Shariah prohibitions, regardless of whether the independent intellect determines their inadequacy or not. As a result, Afif not only avoids rational taboos, but also avoids irrational taboos. Although some jurists consider the moral term of chastity to be established and do not allow this term to be used in religious texts, but according to the lexical evidence and the use of the Qur'anic derivatives of the word chastity, it seems that the moral term corresponds to the literal meaning of chastity. As a result, the jurisprudential term is far from the literal truth and has found a legalistic truth in the knowledge of jurisprudence. Therefore, religious texts cannot be interpreted according to the mentioned jurisprudential meaning without analogy.
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