Music isn't forbidden. This assertion isn't in the Qur'an. Anywhere. Find it! I challenge you.The idea that it's haraam comes from ahadith. Men are not allowed to make forbidden what God has made permissible, so it's pretty incredible that people believe the hadith is valid when it contradicts the Qur'an. It's also pretty incredible how …
Continue reading Pulled out of Nowhere: Music is Haraam, Supposedly
In Islam, the story of the first woman and man is detailed very differently from the way it is in Christianity. Unfortunately, though, the story is considered so basic that young Muslim children are rarely formally taught about creation and consequently adopt the culturally dominant Christian version, believing it to be the same in Islam. …
On my birthday (happy coincidence) I officially changed my middle and last names to what my mother had intended to name me. I'd been using the "new" one--which I consider my real name--for years, and I'm quite happy now that I don't have to explain to professors why I have a different last name on …
She was born into a poor and respected family, and before her birth her parents were already informed from a dream that she would be a virtuous leader. She desired neither fame nor power but her passion, love of God, and self-denial earned her both.At a young age, she was captured and sold into slavery. …
Continue reading Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: Rabia al-Adawiyya
Yeah, so is our makeup. Let's ban that too!Seriously, I can't believe feminists who make this "It's sexist, but it should be up to the woman whether she wants to wear it" point, as though the former sentiment is some kind of disclaimer for the grudging latter. Why do you need to specifically point this …
In the Qur’an, different numbers of witnesses are called for different crimes. For example, it takes four reliable witnesses to condemn a woman for adultery: Those who accuse chaste women and then fail to produce four witnesses to support their allegations, the court shall order eighty lashes to such accusers. And, never in the future …
Continue reading Figments of Patriarchal Imagination: The Testimony of Two Women "Equals" One Man’s
This happens very, very occasionally--so I'm going to indulge in the moment. ;) There's something I didn't mention in my entry about Muslim women marrying Christian and Jewish men, and that is that the particular man of whom I was speaking had expressed consideration to convert to Islam. Of course, I didn't take it seriously. …
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