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Sold to the Highest Bidder
The material world has reduced women to the level of merely being a commodity for sale. From beauty products to even car tyres, everything requires the poster of a barely-clad woman to sell. She has become a visual ‘titbit’ for the eye of one and all to feast on. Every morally depraved, filthy pervert has the opportunity to drool over her image. If that’s not bad enough, he is even free to fantasise to his fill and make her …
Dowry on Divorce
وَإِن طَلَّقْتُمُوهُنَّ مِن قَبْلِ أَن تَمَسُّوهُنَّ وَقَدْ فَرَضْتُمْ لَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةً فَنِصْفُ مَا فَرَضْتُمْ إِلَّا أَن يَعْفُونَ أَوْ يَعْفُوَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ عُقْدَةُ النِّكَاحِ ۚ وَأَن تَعْفُوا أَقْرَبُ لِلتَّقْوَىٰ ۚ وَلَا تَنسَوُا الْفَضْلَ بَيْنَكُمْ
“If you divorce them before you have touched them, while you have already fixed for them an amount of dowry, then there is one half of what you have fixed, unless they (the woman) forgive or forgives the one in whose hand lies …
A Rose without Thorns?
A man once entered a tattoo parlour and asked the artist to give him a tattoo. “What tattoo would you like?” the artist enquired. The man pondered a moment then declared, “A Lion! A ferocious lion with his fangs bared, about to roar and pounce on his prey!”
The tattoo artist nodded and began to prepare his needles and ink while the man settled back with a dreamy look of anticipation on his face – how grand the lion will look! …
