A Milk al-Yameen is a woman with whom a man can have intimate relations without a contract of Nikah. There is no evidence that Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) made a contract of Nikah with Mariyah, the Coptic Christian slave with whom he had a son, Ibrahim. She was not a wife of Nikah, and yet she was his …
The Role of Women in Akhir al-Zaman
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I am female and wish to marry. If I see someone who is suitable for marriage, what should I do?
Women have the freedom to propose marriage just as much as men.
Islam and Feminism
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The Women of Islam in The House of Allah.
There is no doubt whatsoever that this essay is going to provoke both positive and negative responses from readers. But our purpose in writing it is to provoke enlightened responses from our intelligent readers — responses that would dispel complacency over (what this writer perceives as) unfortunate instances of misguided tradition. Let us at the outset remind the Muslim reader …
Woman and Paradise in Islam
The secular feminist revolution rose upon the world from the West with an essentially godless agenda to liberate women from the “shackles” of the ages by totally transforming her status, role and function in society. In so doing it has turned the previous religious and sacred order upside-down in such a way that the sun now appears to be rising …
The Feminist Revolution and The Last Age
The Qur’an likened the creation of the male and the female to that of the ‘night’ and the ‘day’, implying that they complement each other “… like twin-halves of a whole.” But they are also functionally different; hence a successful and harmonious male-female relationship requires that the ‘day’ (i.e. the male) must function as ‘day’ and not try to become …
An Islamic Response to Legalized Abortion
Allah Most High has prohibited the killing of children (both born and unborn) when such is resorted to for no just cause. It is indeed a very great sin. But an essentially godless age has shown no concern whatsoever for the Word of Allah Most High. In fact this age is experiencing something more sinister than disregard for the Word …
Can Muslims choose a Woman to Rule over Them?
THE QUR’AN AND THE RULE OF THE (MALE) IMAM The Qur’an has delivered a stern warning concerning the choice of a ruler: “One day We shall call together all human beings with their Imam (i.e., ruler). . . “ (Qur’an, al-Isra, 17:71). The word Imam, when used in the Qur’an as well as in everyday language, refers to the ruler …
THE MARRIAGE OF A MUSLIM PRINCESS
She was as beautiful as a Princess from Sudan, this Muslim girl of African origin from Deigo Martin who was married at the San Fernando Jama Masjid last Friday to the distinguished Afro-Surinamese Islamic scholar and my beloved brother, Shaikh Ali Mustafa Seinpaal. In fact she had an African name which meant ‘queen”. Her father had passed away, and so …
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