What each member of the family receives upon the death of another is very straight-forward in the Qur'an, and the entire structure is intricately tied together: Concerning [the inheritance of] your children, God enjoins [this] upon you: The male shall have the equal of two females’ share; but if there are more than two females, …
Continue reading Dismissed Conditions: Men Inherit Twice What Women Inherit
Were I a reporter, I would walk around asking those who rage against it, "So, what IS it?"We love being afraid of things we don't know! And some people love living in fear. I can't understand why. Living in fear is not fun. Perhaps because fear unites people against other people? Yay, power!I strongly suspect …
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 …
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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. …
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
Okay, so we do hear a lot about A'isha, the Prophet's third wife--but not the same woman. The A'isha the world knows today is very different than the A'isha who existed in reality. With patriarchy purposefully modifying Islamic history, we have false information about even her age.A'isha was nineteen when she married the Prophet (not …
Continue reading Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: A’isha
(Quran 6:159) As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects, thou hast no part in them in the least: their affair is with God. God will in the end tell them the truth of all that they did.The Sunni-Shi’i division hadn’t split the Islamic world until after the death of Muhammad …
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