Islam: Seeking Knowledge

  It is an unfortunate fact that a lot of people have deviated from the path of truth and righteousness, which is why they have fallen victim to sectarianism and fanaticism thereby undermining or destroying their religion, society and nation by issuing fatwas labelling people as disbelievers without their fatwa being supported by juristic evidence. Issuing fatwa without getting rid of bias and fanaticism is in fact a tribulation afflicting the nation owing to the deeds of the people themselves. If the people’s souls are pure and their deeds directed to Allah the Exalted they would not commit such an

Unlike human beings Islam provides facts rather than theories and Allah the Exalted clearly stated them in the holy Quran. These facts include man’s relationship with God, the unseen, the Last Day. The holy Quran also provides solid facts involving man’s relationship with the past and the future as well his conceptions about the existence. Such are the Quranic facts upon which Muslims can rely and to which they submit their thoughts, being the words of God these facts are unchangeable as He is the one who knows the secrets of earth and heaven. When the unbelievers denied that the

SECTION TWO This is section two of our articles on post-fornication or post-adultery marriage. It is dedicated to demonstrating the evidence produced by those who hold the counter-idea – the impermissibility of the post-fornication or post-adultery marriage. The proponents of disallowing such marriages have based their evidence upon three sources: 1) Logic & Principles 2) Quran 3) Accounts narrated from the Sahaba Logic & Principles In this article, we will look at Logic & Principles, leaving the other two sources for future articles. By the word logic, it is meant what human mind can accept with conviction and satisfaction; and finally, people unanimously agree on it, or at least,

INTRODUCTION This is the third article of the series. In the second article, we surveyed two of the accounts narrated from the Sahabas on the issue of post-adultery or post-fornication marriage. We proved therein that one of those accounts was inauthentic because of its narrator being unknown and the other was typically unacceptable because of being narrated by a weak and deceitful narrator – Muhammad bin Is-haq. Even though the account by Muhammad bin Is-haq was also narrated by others, and so to prove its unacceptability would require more explanation. Usually, the laws of the science of the Prophetic Traditions

– It is permissible for the fasting person to taste the food with his tongue in order to know the good food from the bad one ✅and then spit it out, since the forbidden thing is to swallow the stuff. – Anyone who eats or drinks assuming that it is still night, then discovers that it was already daybreak, ✅ has to refast his day according to one opinion, whereas according to another opinion, no refasting is required of him, and this is the one mostly in use. – Anyone who eats or drinks assuming that the sun has set,

INTRODUCTION This is the second article of the series. In the first article, we demonstrated and discussed the accounts that were wrongly attributed to the Prophet (p.b.u.h.) regarding the issue of the post-fornication or post-adultery marriage. We also discussed therein another important idea – the analogical inference of linking the issue of the post-fornication or post-adultery marriage to the issue of stealing a fruit from someone’s garden. While stealing, the thief is caught and accepts to buy it from the owner. It has been suggested, on this basis, that the illegitimate act of stealing the fruit does not render the

  Marriage in Islam occupies special position. It is regarded to be one of the most important building blocks of a family, the backbone for a strong and loving community, thus, it is the fabric of the Muslim society. Marriages create relations between the married couple and gives husband and wife sense of achievement and a brighter future together. The benefits of marriage go beyond those expected and experienced by the married individuals; it brings two families which were perhaps once strangers to each other, into kinship, love and caring for one another. Among its social benefits, the recurring effect