In ancient and modern times there always exist a category of woman that was labelled a concubine. In different cultures they had different words for it, but it essentially amounted to the same thing: a lesser wife. In the various studies done in the field of cultural anthropology it is documented that people throughout Africa, […]
The Right to Protection By modern standards one might accuse the Qur’an of being chauvinist book because it insists that men inherently protect women. In our time men largely go unacknowledged in the West when they play the role of protector but are shamed when they fail to protect women. The verse we will discuss […]
There was a time that men understood the importance of supporting other men in the pursuit of order, family and safety. A nuclear family could not survive on its own in the wide expanses of the earth where raids were not far and few between. Fast forward and we had large empires as a result […]
You cannot expect a generation of people who grew up in broken homes to all be monogamous. You cannot expect people who don’t know how to be loyal, to be loyal. Monogamy starts with the way in which you were raised. Did you have to carry out tasks to completion, or could you chop and […]
If one were to read the Quran, and I would encourage everyone to do so, you would notice one of the biggest themes aside from worshipping One God Alone, is justice and equality before the law. Hence, some of the earliest political theorists established an independent judiciary and opined that God is in fact the […]
The problem with modern Muslim teachings is that it adapted to the modern world while retaining half of what was present in the past. As a result, the modern Muslim woman wants the best of both worlds. She wants her own career that will keep her occupied for eight to ten hours of the day, […]
There’s a narrative modern Muslims pursue that is essentially the making of their own imaginations because of how they interact with Hadith underpinned by the current status quo. They portray the Prophet Muhammad (s) as this highly domesticated man who cooked and cleaned for his 11 wives and who was massively indulgent, trainable and romantic. […]
Men prioritise the survival of others, women prioritise their own survival. Read that again. Women are the carriers of the species and men are the carriers of a civilization- essentially built in the interest of safety or the survival of a collective. Men are built to act in the interest of a group, women are […]
For the Western trope who thinks his culture is superior to everyone else’s, the left (covered women) represents oppression while the right represents liberation. Whereas for the other side, the right represents oppression and the left represents liberation. Let me explain: When a woman covers her body she has the POWER to decide which men […]