Family Life

This objection is based on short-sightedness. In Islam, the husband is responsible to maintain his wife or wives and all his children. It is an obligation which must be fulfilled in all circumstances. If a husband follows the tenets of Islam, he is b...

This objection is based on short-sightedness. In I...

The third objection is that polygamy has social disadvantages, and injures the delicate feelings of women. We have already seen that far from creating social disadvantages, polygamy cures the social disadvantages, and that it is the pretended monogam...

The third objection is that polygamy has social di...

The above quotation has brought us to the 34next objection of the Christian priests, that polygamy encourages lust and sensuality. We have already shown by arithmetical calculations and historical facts that the system of monogamy has compelled and i...

The above quotation has brought us to the 34next o...

Now, we should look at the arguments of the Christians against the system of polygamy. Is polygamy really against the natural law? The facts and findings answer this question in negative. "Man," says G.R.Scott, "is essentially polygamous and the deve...

Now, we should look at the arguments of the Christ...

First of all, it should be remembered that the Hindus, Babylonians, Persians, Athenians, Jews and pre-Islamic Arabs recognised no limit to the number of wives a man could marry. Islam limited and restricted it in number; and hedged it with severe res...

First of all, it should be remembered that the Hin...

"If he take him another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish." It is evident to even a casual reader of Old Testament that not only is polygamy permitted but also practised, and that regulations for that have be...

"If he take him another wife, her food, her raimen...

In Exodus (chap.21, ver.10) it is stated:- The Christian writers say that "monogamy (i.e., marrying one wife only) is the divine ideal. The Creator constituted as a union between one man and one woman (Gen. 2:18-24; Matt. 19:5; 1 Cor. 6:16) He preser...

In Exodus (chap.21, ver.10) it is stated:- The Chr...

Further he writes:- "There is a good deal of controversy as to whether polygamy is sanctioned by Hindu Law. According to Mann the Law on the subject is as follows:- a) "For the first marriage of twice-born men (wives) of equal caste are recommended, ...

Further he writes:- "There is a good deal of contr...

S. V. Mir Ahmad Ali writes : "Polygamy was prevalent among all the nations of antiquity, not excluding the Hindus and Budhists. The world in general and Arabia in particular before the ministry of the Holy Prophet was lying deeply buried under gross ...

S. V. Mir Ahmad Ali writes : "Polygamy was prevale...

Islam has allowed a man to marry more than one wife. This has been done for the purpose of solving many social and domestic problems which a family is confronted with from time to time. Many are the times when the general welfare of both man and woma...

Islam has allowed a man to marry more than one wif...

Today’s problems of families are seriously impending. Owing to the social variances, modern families have left many functions they had met before. This caused the dissociation and collapse of family bonds. An educationist says, “As a matter of fact, ...

Today’s problems of families are seriously impendi...

Islam has given a great attention to sons whom are required to respect and obey their fathers absolutely. Thus, impiety to parents is one of the grand sins for which God has threatened the hell-fire. God’s Book refers to the obligation of benefaction...

Islam has given a great attention to sons whom are...

Cooperation: Islam has called for the spouses’ collaboration in the living affairs and the management of the home affairs. It has called for living associatively in mutual affiliation and relationship. This is the task of the paterfamilias. Islam has...

Cooperation: Islam has called for the spouses’ col...

Love and Affiliation: Islam has called for the predominance of love, affiliation, and cordiality among the family members who are required to avoid any concern that may confuse the purity of the living. Women should meet this liability in the first p...

Love and Affiliation: Islam has called for the pre...

Home, through which the social environment achieves the children’s educational results, plays a considerable role in the educational processes. Children receive traditions, practices, beliefs, arts, traits, history, and triumphs of their nations thro...

Home, through which the social environment achieve...

Islam has instituted the system of family on sound bases agreeing with the life necessities and the individuals’ exigencies and behavior. It has regarded the family talents that are afforded by God, as spontaneous. God says: And one of his signs is t...

Islam has instituted the system of family on sound...

1. Families are in charge of producing and satisfying the children with upright moods for fulfilling their biological and social requisites. Families that only produce children have no difference with animals. 2. Families are responsible for training...

1. Families are in charge of producing and satisfy...

Family is responsible for educating the children correctly in standard criteria that are away from aberrance. There is a number of duties and obligations of families. First, Families are responsible for saving the factors of settlement, amiability, a...

Family is responsible for educating the children c...

Family. is one of the principal elements of constructing educational entities, creating processes of the social naturalization, forming the personalities, and providing the children with the habits that persist forever. In other words, family is the ...

Family. is one of the principal elements of constr...

The present day Western world is enamoured of 'equality', not knowing that the question of relationship between man and woman was solved by Islam 14 centuries ago. As far as the family system is concerned, there exists something higher than equality....

The present day Western world is enamoured of 'equ...

From the Islamic point of view, it is extremely insulting to a woman that the law should force her to live with a husband who does not like her. The law can force a woman to live with a particular man, but it cannot secure for her the position of a b...

From the Islamic point of view, it is extremely in...