Muslim Women, Marriage & Family Life

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And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves that you may dwell in tranquillity with them, and He has put love and mercy between your (hearts); verily in that are signs for those who reflect. [ Quran 30:21 ]

Islam brought women from the position of chattel in marriage to that of equal partners. In the matter of divorce, she changed from a completely impotent bystander, to one who could initiate divorce proceedings and claim her rights of dowry and inheritance. From a position of legal nonetity, she became a legal personality in the full sense of the term, able to hold property, entitled to a just share of her husband's and family's inhereitance property. Socially, with education equally required of her as well as of every man by Islam, she rose to a position of social and cultural influences and service. Even in religio-cultic practices and duties, woman was asked and expected to play a role equal to that of man, insofar as her special physical characteristics and maternal duties allowed. -- Lois Lamya Al-Faruqi Women, Muslim Society and Islam



Marriage in Islam:

Marriage in Islam
Islam, marriage, women-SRI faq
Wedding in Islam
Book on the Etiquette of Marriage - Ghazali - PDF 9M
Questions and Answers on Marriage (from Western perspective)
Tips to a Better Marriage
How to make your Husband Happy
How to make your Wife Happy
Intimate relationship and mutual rights and obligations
Relations between husband and wife
Who practices Polygamy?
The Prophet's (PBUH) Marriage to Khadija
Some marriage examples from the Prophet (SAW)
Julaybib's story- why we should marry for reasons beyond looks
Getting Married:
Marriage: Parental Conflicts
Marriage in Akfa? (within tribes)
Marriage between Muslims and Non Muslims
Issues on Inter-Marriages
How to Make Istakhara Prayer
Pointers on Choosing Marriage Partners
Questions to Ask a Prospective Husband
How to choose the Desired Wife (for brothers!!)
Family Life:
Role of the family in the spread of Islam by Prof. Ismail Faruqi
Is Family Planning allowed in Islam?
Wife beating? an answer from Dr. Jamal Badawi
Wife Abuse in the Muslim Community
A Scientist's Interpretation of References to Embryology in the Qur'an
Quality Time with Dad - for fathers!!
The meaning of some arabic names




Mothers, grandmothers, aunts, cousins, sisters and friends whose footsteps etch soft, figure eights around the eyes. These are my women. My mothers through the ages who carry love like a shield as they march through centuries and shatter panes of gravity with their naked fists. -- Reshma Baig, The Memory of Hands