When the sun is overturned When the stars fall away When the mountains are moved When the ten-month pregnant camels are neglected When the beasts of the wild shall be mustered When the seas are boiling When the girl-child, buried alive, is asked for what crime she deserved murder, When the sky is flayed open …
Category: Quran
Appreciating Social Justice from the Unseen
I want to talk about ji’had (struggle), and I want to talk about it at its most basic elementary level to demonstrate how it relates to social justice, and, is essentially, at the core of striving toward it. And I want to do this by considering the configuration of human beings. God began the creation …
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The Unrecognized Prophetess
When she had delivered, she said: “O my Lord! Behold! I am delivered of a female child!” —and God knew best what she delivered— “And no wise is the male like the female. I have named her Maryam (Mary), and I commend her and her offspring to Thy protection from the Evil One, the Rejected.” …
Intentional Malice: The Exclusiveness of the Sexes, Collapsing of Sex and Gender, and the Superiority of the Male
I want to talk about a verse that has appeared on this site without previous examination because it is so clear in its meaning, and extract from it a deeper understanding of the Quranic approach to sex and gender and these supposed strict “gender roles” that patriarchs insist are dictated in the Qur’an. Reverence Your …
Islamic History and the Women You Never Hear About: The Rights of Girls
When Umm Salama, a woman famous for her intelligence and sound judgment and argumentative nature, asked the Prophet “Why are men mentioned in the Qur’an and why are we not?” she did not only challenge the pre-Islamic customs that were abrasive to women and had not yet been overturned by the unfinished Revelations, but almost …
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The Qur’an Is Blatantly Anti-Patriarchal
This entire post adds commentary to Asma Barlas' book "Believing Women in Islam": Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. I highly recommend it. Reverence Your God Who created you from a single person Created, of similar nature, its mate and from them twain scattered like seeds countless men and women;-- Reverence God, through Whom ye …
Y’all need to stop telling people they’re going to Hell…
Verily, those who have attained to faith [in this Qur'an], as well as those who follow the Jewish faith, and the Christians, and the Sabians--all who believe in God and the Last Day and do righteous deeds--shall have their reward with their Sustainer; and no fear need they have, and neither shall they grieve. --Qur'an …
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