By Sanni Kay Yusuf Stepping out of the house yesterday (the first day of the lockdown order), I could not but imagine how this transient, temporal world would come to an end someday. Roads were deserted of pedestrian and vehicular engagements,...
When the prophet got to Madīnah as ordered his Lord, he met the natives therein on certain festivities. Rather than join in their commemoration, he called them to the divinely prescribed ones – 'īdul Fitr and Adhā – as...
The woman fasts - obligatorily - as done the man. She unavoidably halts the sweetening flow of her sleep while the husband kingly floats on the bed snoring euphorically. In sleepiness - yawning and staggering - she proceeds to the...
  We had a deal before consummating the marriage - that we would prevent pregnancy until things had become relatively rosy for us. Although our parents had promised to be by us but we wanted to be independent of their...
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...
  "You're divorced!" or "Divorce me!" is the last statement any sensitive spouse would utter. It is no sumptuous delicacy to be chewed like gum. But the other way round is the case these days. When a woman encounters the other...
Except he has his principle compromisingly softened, or as otherwise willed by the Creator, an untidy, unorganized woman can never last with a man whose penchant for tidiness and organisation of the home is second to none. Some women are...
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