RE: yes but you’re supposed to wait until 9 before consummating the marriage.
Thighing is allowed in the interim.
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Is it in any of their religious texts? Or is that just traditional practice?
“Is it in any of their religious texts? Or is that just traditional practice?”
Why yes it is. Their prophet did this very thing.
Their quran also tells them when its ok to have relations with camels and other farm animals.