Tag: Freedom
EU Hijab Ban Clear Religious Discrimination
DTT: Forcing Muslim women to remove their Hijab (headscarf) is no less oppressive than forcing women to wear the Hijab. Why are these ignorant people so afraid to give women the right to self-determination? Sadly, this hijab ban is going to cause all sorts of problems for Muslim women who work in Europe. Employers now… Read More ›
EU Hijab Ban In Work | Oppression Against Muslim Women
Employers are allowed/permitted to ban staff from wearing visible religious symbols, the European Union’s top court ruled on Tuesday morning. This is the first decision on the issue of women wearing Hijabs at work. In words, a Hijabi woman can be very simply banned/sacked from work in Europe if the company decides to do so. The… Read More ›
Surah 24:33 – Obligatory To Enter Into A Contract To Free A Slave?
Background Madinan verse (Mawdudi, Dr. Muhammed Asad and Ibn Kathir) Analysing Verse “But let them who find not [the means for] marriage abstain [from sexual relations] until Allah enriches them from His bounty. And THOSE WHO SEEK A CONTRACT [for eventual emancipation] from among whom your right hands possess – THEN MAKE A CONTRACT WITH… Read More ›
Revisiting ‘I Have Been Commanded To Fight…’ Hadith
Kaleef K. Karim This is a part two on this Hadith report (below) which is often quoted out of its historical context. In the previous piece, which can be seen here: “The Hadith ‘…Fight Until They Say There Is No god But Allah’ Explained“, we showed evidence that the Hadith was never understood by the… Read More ›
Zakat Funds To Free Slaves Surah 9:60
Background Madinan verse (Mawdudi and Dr. Muhammed Asad) Analysing Verse “Zakah expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect [zakah] and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing captives [or slaves] and for those in debt and for the cause of Allah and for the… Read More ›
Quran 4:25 An Order To Marry Slaves (End of Slavery)
Background This verse was revealed after battle of Uhud (Mawdudi). Madinan verse (Mawdudi and Dr. Muhammed Asad). Analysing Verse “And whoever among you cannot [find] the means to marry free, believing women, then [he may marry] from those whom YOUR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS OF BELIEVING SLAVE GIRLS. And Allah is most knowing about your faith…. Read More ›
Breaking An Oath You Must Feed Poor People Or Freeing A Slave Quran 5:89
Background The verse was revealed after the treaty of Hudaibiyah (Mawdudi). It is a Madinan verse (Mawdudi, Dr. Muhammed Asad and Anwarul Bayan). Analysing Verse “Allah does not call you to account for what is vain in your oaths, but He calls you to account for the making of deliberate oaths; so its expiation is… Read More ›
An Order To Emancipate (Free) Slaves – Surah 2:177
Background This verse was revealed in Madinah (Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi – Tafhim al-Qur’an – The Meaning of the Qur’an, and Dr. Muhammed Asad). Analysing Verse Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, BUT [TRUE] RIGHTEOUSNESS IS [IN] ONE WHO BELIEVES IN ALLAH, the Last Day, the angels,… Read More ›
Did Islam Come To End Slavery?
The Laws and rules laid out in the Quran and hadith concerning captives, those enslaved in war was always said by Muslims that at the end Islam as a religion provided to gradually eliminate slavery. Many non-Muslim scholars from the past century, who have studied the Quran and Hadith literature carefully have come to conclude… Read More ›
‘Most Intense In Animosity Toward The Believers [To Be] Jews And Polytheists…” – Quran 5:82
Background Madinah verse. Analysing Verse “You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers [to be] the Jews and those who associate others with Allah; and you will find the nearest of them in affection to the believers those who say, “We are Christians.” That is because among them… Read More ›
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