Some of our women take off the niqāb when they get divorced by their husbands or become widowed by destiny. This act, unfortunately, makes one wonder for whom their faces were veiled ab initio - Allāh (their Creator) or...
Except a man wants to form unrealistically big, or that in his veins runs animal, not human blood, informing the wife of the incoming of another woman isn't always easy. The love they both share; the murderous hardships the...
It was on a Saturday. Applicants had overwhelmingly gathered for the recruitment process. The unfavourability of the aptitude test got many back to their various domiciles. Those who scaled through the first hurdle were proceeded to the next level.
On...
MY SUNNAH STORY (10)
BY
SANNI KAY YUSUF
That question got me fearfully stammered and I became bereft of a corresponding answer. I thought I was proverbially detailed enough, but mummy proved me wrong. I thought I was smart, but she seemed...
The customary practice where wives are subjected to avoidable stress of cooking, washing and serving delicacies at family occasions needs a review.
The woman is no slave - not to her man nor to his kinsmen. Her domestication at home...
The society is sunk in the ill. The home is drowned in its pit. Almost all have been squeezed by the heat. Zinaa is, unfortunately, the wind that has ravaged the carriage against its package.
Men dwell in the den,...
THE BODY, NOT THE BRAIN
Mutmainnah Sanni Ololade did not only clear all prizes at the recently-concluded convocation ceremony of the Obafemi Awolowo University, she was declared Best Graduating Student for the academic year. Since I saw the video of...
The idea of going for a visit to a would-be father-in-law and turning the visit into aqdu-n-nikaah is a common practice that should be critically looked into. Solemnization of marriage is too fundamental a phenomenon to be abracadabrically done.
Our...
Hijab is a piece of cloth - a mere garment. It is not human, only worn by the Muslim woman. It is a non-living thing and cannot do anything on its own volition. Why then blame it for the...
A man approached me after Salāh on a Jumu'ah day to inquire about the permissibility or otherwise of ẹ̀wààbejì (beans for a set of twins). That just reminded me of how, long time ago, women used to flood the...
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