as understood by Mehedi A. Ali. Note: As of July 2021, The WordPress article is updated, but the PDF is an old, incomplete draft. Introduction and Methodology Nahida S. Nisa, writer and exegete, has readily accepted the invitation from the Quran itself, to study It. Her work uncovered that Lut (a.s). clarifies homosexuality was not …
Continue reading Prophet Lut (a.s.) and Bal بل : The Nahida S. Nisa Tafsir
Some of you have spoken to me before. On the phone. Through video. In person. There's no trace of a residual accent. I moved to California when I was 2 years old. I can hardly speak my mother tongue. "You sound so Californian!" some of you have exclaimed, and then (incorrectly), "Are you from LA?" …
A couple of my closest friends know that in texts (and sometimes in person) I use Qur'anic verses as either code or abbreviations to quickly convey an expression or message. 33:33 "stay dignified in your homes" when I want someone to mind their own business. 12:31 "this is not a man; this is none but …
Let’s talk about homosexuality, which my previous article does not. I actually don’t like the term “homosexuality,” and I prefer the title of this article, but I’m using the word here because I know you all are searching it when you’re looking for my legal opinions on this website. No one, not even patriarchal scholars, …
were serial rapists, who drank heavily to fuel their crimes, attacked visitors in gangs, lusted after the power of angels, knew first hand of the God/dess but refused morality and cheated and lied and thieved. And raped. Raped. Over and over. In mobs. Will religious leaders have you believe they were destroyed them for raping …
When I was writing my exegesis, “Polygamy is haraam.” I remembered a conversation I had with Orbala ages ago in which I had demanded to know why the supposed permissibility of polygyny did not conventionally extend to polyandry. She responded that polyandry, the marriage of one woman to multiple men, was explicitly forbidden in the …
Continue reading 4:25 [muḥ’ṣanāti]: Consent is Integral to the Qur’an
The vast majority of Muslim men, whether from previously/currently colonized nations or otherwise, live in patriarchal cultures; the Qur’an itself addresses this, for example, when demanding to know why men have buried their daughters alive or when protecting women from accusations of adultery. However, when confronted with this reality, men pretend that they weren’t patriarchal …
the fatal feminist 