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...
MY SUNNAH STORY (Part 3)
By
Sanni Kay Yusuf
Given my passion for Sunnah and my all dedicated to da'wah, I shouldn't do less than an all-covering hijabi. I knew it and I was convinced beyond doubts that, that was the way...
On completion of the national youth service some years ago, I considered taking up a teaching job in a nearby private school. The school, being on top in the community, would never give in to quackery.
The school administrator was...
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...
It's an open secret that sisters crush on du'āt (callers to the path of Allāh: imāms, alfas, preachers etc)! Abi who no like better thing? After all, men too love what is good. We love beauty, radiance, elegance, exquisiteness,...
He is, in my arguable opinion, a thorn in the flesh of fetish fellows who parade themselves as clerics. Many, especially those in diaspora who had for long been trapped in their siege and vampiric den, have now become...
One of our fathers in the mosque who made the last Hajj narrated to us the touching story of a high-ranking retired police officer.
The officer was seen crying profusely in Makkah. Compassionate onlookers probed into why tears was gushing...
We are locked down. We are hungry. We close our eyes but catch no sleep. There is heat caused by incessant power outage. Our bodies aren't looking good as before; they've been overridden by irritating, debilitating rashes. The sounds...
The role of the second wife in making (or marring) polygyny cannot be overemphasized. Where the first wife takes the coming of her co-wife in good faith and the second not playing along the same line, the home, from...
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...
