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This is a continuation of ‘Dowry as a Means of Alimony in Islam’. When it comes to alimony talks in islam after a divorce pronouncement, unlike the practice we have today that basically doesn’t encourage taking care of the woman anymore, until say, the courts intervene, and she wins; in Islam, the divorce only goesContinue reading “Divorce as a Means of Alimony in Islam.”

Despite the popular frenzy backed by some practices in some Muslim jurisdictions; here, now, we are about to embark on a journey that reintroduces the dowry system in islam, and how it actively works as a means of alimony for the wife should in case a divorce, or death happens. Dowry, we see that someContinue reading “Dowry as a means of Alimony in Islam.”

I figured if we are going to embark on a journey about how the dowry, the divorce, and the child sustenance system entrenches and encourages alimony, we should first look into who one can marry. In this day and age that muslim men have considered marrying non-muslim women as though they are in the sameContinue reading “WHO TO MARRY IN ISLAM.”

So, because it is ramadan and I figured a lot of you are very busy with your i’badah, I’ll give the summary of this piece here and now by saying that the hadith that says “Whoever helps break the fast of a fasting person, he will have the same reward as him without decreasing anythingContinue reading “the reward of ‘breaking’ someone else’s fast”

Here, I intend to go through some words that were translated to ‘barren’ in the Quran, but which weren’t used to describe someone’s barrenness in the Quran. What this does is help us understand other types of barrenness that may afflict the human condition, and perhaps help us in finding a way to heal themContinue reading “OTHER WORDS THAT WERE TRANSLATED TO ‘BARREN’ IN THE QURAN, AND HOW THEY MAY FIT INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION.”

Now that we’ve looked into what the infertility of Zakariyya and his wife was, and how they were healed, let’s take a look at that of Abraham and his first wife, Sarah. To do this, I have collected the ayah (verses) about the incident below. But, as we will see, they are not in aContinue reading “INFERTILITY IN THE QURAN, A CLASSICAL ARABIC LOOK AT THE CASE OF IBRAHEEM, HIS WIFE, AND ISHAQ. PT. 2.”

In this piece, we will be looking at the instances of Infertility in the Quran. As those that know about barrenness are aware of, not all infertility are the same. Though the result, which is not being able to have kids may be the same, the symptoms are different. And reading through the Quran, IContinue reading “INFERTILITY IN THE QURAN, A CLASSICAL ARABIC LOOK AT THE CASE OF ZAKARIYYA AND HIS WIFE. PT. 1.”

Have you, like me, ever wondered what the meaning of the hadith of the prophet pbuh that says ‘paradise lies beneath the feet of mothers’ mean? Does it mean that for one to enter paradise, one has to go into one’s mother’s feet? Does one have to place them over one’s head? Every day? OnceContinue reading “A CLASSICAL ARABIC UNDERSTANDING OF ‘PARADISE LIES BENEATH THE FEET OF MOTHERS’.”

Now that we’ve looked into the fasting for 2 consecutive months, it’s time to look into the feeding of 60 miskin, and to that effect, Q58 V4 says, ‘…and he who is unable – then the feeding of sixty poor persons…’ But just as we did in the last post where we looked into yajid,Continue reading “or feed 60 miskeen”

Q58 V4 proceeds to say, ‘And he who does not find [a slave] – then a fast for two months consecutively before they touch one another; and he who is unable – then the feeding of sixty poor persons…’ Simply put, the next atonements are fasting for two months or feeding 60 poor people; butContinue reading “or fast 60 consecutive days if you want to have her”