Women
French anti-Muslim sentiment stripped bare with abaya ban
A key example of the dangers of liberal and secular thinking: forcing women to reduce their modesty and arguing that it is empowering.
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Making the Most of Marriage
Four years of marriage, living with in-laws, motherhood and delivering several wedding speeches can teach a girl a thing or two about what marriage is really all about. However, when a group…
Talāq out of Anger
Answer: All praise be to Allah and may blessings and salutation be upon His Messenger, Muhammad, his family, and Companions. The question that has been asked is extremely common, and constantly raised…
The Sisyphean Task of Rights and Wrongs
Whenever "women’s rights" and "Islam" or "Muslims" are mentioned in the same sentence, one must resist the almost overwhelming desire to run shrieking from the room in a desperate attempt to avoid…
Fatwa: What Would the Iddah Period be?
A: Being separated from the husband before the pronouncement of divorce does not in any way remove the requirement that is the ‘Iddah period. Allah linked the ‘iddah with divorce itself and…
Sexualisation of Culture breeds Sexual Violence
Within recent times, there has emerged a pattern in which the focus is on the articulation and materialisation of sex throughout a vast range of cultural, social and political fields, with an…
The Niqab: A Barrier to Integration?
One of the multitudinous quasi-reasons given by a certain Conservative MP in the UK and many others for why Muslim women shouldn’t wear the niqab is that it is, in the words…