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Redeeming Our Rights and Lives: Why the Muslim Marriage Contract Must be Better Utilised

Redeeming Our Rights: Why the Muslim Marriage Contract Must be Better Utilised

Unfortunately, there’s still an uproar from many Muslims today when women choose to exercise this right from Allah and suggest conditions that are completely halal and acceptable. Men are able to divorce women on a whim, when angered, out of boredom, or because their wife is infertile, but women are dragged through hell and back just so they don’t die at the hands of their abuser. If a man can leave his wife because he so desperately wants children, why is a woman seen as heartless for the same thing?

Wild and Vulnerable: 3 Steps to Reclaiming Your Feminine Power as a Muslim Woman

by TMWT

We were taught that being vulnerable, wild, and feminine was inferior and not desirable when in actual fact, our wild feminine was deeply feared by society. In order to understand how to reclaim our power as women, we need to understand why, in the first place, femininity was suppressed and vilified.

Umm Al-Darda As-Sughra: The Expert Scholar, Jurist and Leader

by TMWT

Umm Ad-Darda’ was held by Iyas ibn Mu`awiyah, as an important scholar of hadith of the time and a judge of undisputed ability and merit, to be superior to all the other hadith scholars of the period, including the celebrated masters of hadith like Al-Hasan Al-Basri and Ibn Sirin.

TMWT Quick Read: Dismantling the Sexist Myth Around Love and Respect

by Aisha Mustapha

At the very root of this vague and incorrect notion that either Respect or Love should be served based on gender is sexism. Men are conditioned to suppress their human emotions, the need to be cared for, listened to -but to aspire to Hardness, violence, and toxicity.

Building Sustainable Communities: In Conversation with Yasmine Mohamed

by TMWT

I learnt early in life through watching my mother, observing the men in our family and around us, that sometimes girls and women just have to roll their sleeves up, tackle the hard stuff and get things done. I come from a community of broken homes, so all I ever saw growing up was women playing both roles.

Deconstructing the Empty Rhetoric: On the Societal Value of Motherhood

by Wardah Abbas

This is what they told mothers who were abandoned to the street with vulnerable children, literally having to beg for help from local communities. Many mothers simultaneously put up with the shame of being poor and asking for aid. Did these mothers see value in their motherhood at this point? Did they feel the sweetness of giving as freely as sunshine and rain?

TMWT Quick Read: The Weaponization of Sabr in Domestic Violence Cases

TMWT Quick Read: The Weaponisation of Sabr in Domestic Violence Cases

by Raheemat Rafiu

You cannot receive healing from the very person who has oppressed you. You cannot sit there and pray without “tying your camel”. You know you’ve waited long enough, you know he’s never going to change. You know if you keep staying, you will lose every single bit of yourself.

The Muslimah Virtual Parlour is Hosting Conversations for Muslim Women

by TMWT

Seeing the need to create an alternative solution, Muti’ah Badruddeen, a Saudi-based physician and Author of three books founded The Muslimah Virtual Parlour, an open, honest, relaxed and non-judgemental arena to share our ideas, views and experiences on matters that affect us as Muslim women in today’s world.

Our Voices Aren’t Awrah: On Censorship and The Disappearance Of Muslim Women

by Asma'u Shaheedah Aliyu

In retaliation, the patriarchy did what the patriarchy does best. It fought and rallied for the disappearance of women. Many fans of female reciters and other female Sheikhas protested against the fatwa but to no avail. Radio stations soon stopped playing Sheikha Munira and other Shiekhas’ recitations. The Sheikhs refused to rescind their fatwa even though some scholars saw it as a form of intellectual regression.

Al-Khansa: A Mistress of Ancient Arab Poetry

by Assia Hamdi

Patriarchal studies along the years had relegated her work as emotional, typical of a woman, and even hysteric and obsessive. However, in a world, where Arabs believed themselves the fathers of poetry, her poetry would not have risen to popularity let alone survived had it just been emotional or beautiful.