*Marital Guidance

by H Amin Love is a powerful, compelling emotion. It can make you laugh and it can make you cry. It can lift you up to the clouds and it can hurl you into an abyss. One of the dilemmas Muslims face, especially Muslim sisters, is the situation in which …

  Dhakiyya Umm Ruqayya presents a practical guide for how to make polygamy work, drawn from personal experience. Polygamy is often seen as the end of a happy marriage, but it need not be that at all. Take it from me, I’m a happily married first wife and I’m friends …

Q. My husband gave me once divorce a few months ago, but after that, after consulting with the Imam, brought me back, but two months ago he gave me two divorces, is it considered as a triple divorce?(Query published as received) A. You have stated that your husband had previously …

1. Learn to forgive your spouse.. Remember the English adage ‘To err is human, to forgive is Divine.’ 2. Misunderstandings and minor differences should not be suppressed. Rather discuss them in an amicable manner, or else this could ultimately lead to a broken marriage (Allah Ta’ala save us.) 3. Learn …

The phenomenon of wives who feel contempt for their husbands is typically a first-world modern problem. In developing countries, in past societies historically, in other times and places, it is more rare to encounter a social climate of wifely contempt or condescension towards the husband. In modern liberal high-GDP first-world …

  Proliferation of Divorces The alarming explosion of Talaaqs in our present times is a cause for great concern. The mention of the word Talaaq which was at one time taboo in our communities has now become such a common and cheap word that in some marriages every argument features …

With the month of Safar upon us, Ulama are exhorting the Muslim public to let go of superstitious baggage regarding this month that they say has its roots in the Days of Ignorance. In years gone by, Cii Radio has witnessed that there are still comparatively fewer Nikahs being performed …

  Question: Assalaamu ‘alaikum Respected ‘Ulama I hope and pray this email finds everyone in good health. Alhamdulillah, Allah Ta‘ala has guided us to change our lives around and we practice on Deen but we still have a long way to go. The problem is I have a lot of hatred …

What a perfectly matched couple….This marriage was indeed prepared in Jannah(Heaven)….It’s like a page from a fairytale…These were just a few of the comments made after Yusuf and Fatima’s nikaah (wedding) ceremony. A few years later and two beautiful kids in their spacious home, “the sea was no longer so …

by Hazrat Maulana Yunus Patel Saheb (rahmatullah alayh) The sawaab (reward) for the sabr (patience) a woman exercises over her difficulties in managing the home of her husband and fulfilling the rights of her husband and children sometimes is such, which makes her ‘reach’ Allah Ta’ala very quickly. This, however, …