The Context A sister (or a troll, in all likelihood, based on their behavior in the comments) made a post on our sub asking if it was worth it to lose out on a lucrative job or first-world citizenship just for refusing to shake hands with the opposite sex. The post was removed for a number of reasons (including references to callers to misguidance and "mainstream scholars", in addition...
From what I understand there are two opinions on this issue: 1a) The more conservative view is that the only thing a man can see of a woman is the face and the hands. So if she normally wears niqab, she can appear before him in just hijab, while maintaining her abaya/jilbab, and of course, no jewelry or makeup. 1b) One variation on this view states that a man can see her without the hijab...
The Context A sister had posted about noticing a trend towards beautifying hijab. For the purposes of this article, we’ll refer to the covering of the hair alone (as opposed to covering the face) as "hijab." In actuality, hijab is a term which encompasses much more than a strip of cloth on the head, but that is a post for another time, in sha’ Allah. The Commentary I...
The Context A sister had posted to our sub asking if she should delay marriage in order to pursue medical school. She was facing pressure from her family to do so and was made to feel less-than for wishing to prioritize marriage. This post contains my response. The Response ﷽ There’s a lot you’ve touched on, I hope you don’t mind if I go through it point by point. You first...
The other day, I had an aggressive work timeline, something with a few hours’ turnaround. The way I work, especially if I’m doing design work or coding, it’s easy to just get "into the zone." I’ll sit down and blaze through a week’s worth of work pretty easily. In the past, it was nothing for me to be at my desk for 10-12 hours straight, no breaks...
I came across this video of Shaykh ‘Abdurrazzaq al Badr and it made me think again about something that crosses my mind from time to time which is: how amazing this Qur’an that we’ve been given is. Subhanallah. So many da’ees (callers to Islam) these days we see, and they’re twisting themselves into pretzels trying to reason, refute, or otherwise argue with the...