**Correction - abstinence CAN demonstrate the above. It does NOT equate that. If you want to get mean about it then who’s to sat the virgin hasn’t done just about everything else aside from the actual act? Or what about those surgeries that are so popular in the middle east nowadays? **
**There’s a lot of gray area on BOTH sides my friend - which is why I say abstinence is NOT the deciding factor for me when it comes to piety. It simply isn’t because your faith is your belief in Allah swt. If you abstain from sex but make out and do everything else - its the same as reading namaz five times a day because your parents force you. Not because you believe in what you’re doing or even understand it.
That to me is not religion - its calisthenics on a rug.**