The Qur'an was revealed in old hijazi Arabic as a recitation of linguistic precision and theological subtlety. Yet, much of its meaning is obscured when references to the God/dess are translated to English. The Arabic text employs neutral grammatical forms, such as huwa, to refer to God, but this usage is entirely grammatical rather than …
Category: feminism
The radical notion that women are people.
What’s different about my feminism?
A (very observant) reader wrote in after visiting the site for the first time in a couple of years and pointed out the tone on this website is palpably different since 2011-2019. She asked whether the difference was founded on any fundamental changes in philosophy. When I was in my 20s, I believed that men …
Chivalry only ever existed because men are superficial.
A woman who did not have any visible physical disability posted about a man who interrupted her while she was about to pump gas into her car, offering to pump it for her because "a pretty woman like you shouldn't have to pump her own gas." She thanked him, and estimated for him that it …
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Men feel entitled to women’s generosity, and it’s super weird.
While scrolling through instagram a while back, I came across a video of several hijabis being interviewed about their mahr. They were listing amounts in the twenty-, thirty-thousands. Sure enough, the comments were filled with resentful men who were in a sheer PANIC. I broke one of my own rules, which is to never engage …
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Roe v. Wade was overturned. The economy is next.
I have no children. That means I have disposable income. I go through $2,000 a month, not including necessities like charitable contributions, rent, groceries, or fuel. (In fact, I'm a little embarrassed to say that. I'm certain that there's a level of extravagance God may characterize as sinful, but I have never feigned virtue before …
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Buried Banaat and Bal بل : TFF Tafsir of Prophet Lut [a.s]
as understood by Mehedi. Note: As of November 2023, The WordPress article is updated, but the PDF is an old, incomplete draft. Introduction and Methodology Anahita Nisa Sultana, 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 the sin …
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Do men know anything about themselves?
It's a source of distant amusement for me the way men parade around championing the idea that a man won't commit if he's getting everything he wants in a relationship without commitment. (I overheard yesterday a man loudly informing a woman, "Why would he commit? He's already getting everything he wants from you! You gave …
the fatal feminist 