Hussein Khalid Al-Hussein, Ph.D.

Introduction

Islamic education is comprehensive, covering all fields of study. It has been innovative in the fields of marital relationships and has provided useful and appropriate teachings to married couples. These teachings provide Muslims with guidelines to keep them within appropriate limits, because exceeding the limits to any extreme causes harm to the individual and the society.

Adab Al-Jima` (Intercourse Etiquettes)

Islam, in a very decent language that is hard to show in the translation from Arabic, teaches Muslims how to perform their marital duties.

by Sheikh Mohammed Abdelhaleem Hamed

1. Beautiful Reception

After returning from work, school, travel, or whatever has separated you:

• begin with a good greeting.
• Start with Assalamau 'Aliaykum and a smile. Salam is a sunnah and a du'aa for her as well.
• Shake her hand and leave bad news for later!

2. Sweet Speech and Enchanting Invitations

• Choose words that are positive and avoid negative ones.
• Give her your attention when you speak of she speaks.
• Speak with clarity and repeat words if necessary until she understands.

by Sheikh Mohammed Abdelhaleem Hamed

Beautiful Reception

After returning from work, school, travel, or whatever has separated you, begin with a good greeting.

• Meet him with a cheerful face.
• Beautify and perfume yourself.
• Start with good news and delay any bad news until he has rested.
• Receive him with loving and yearning sentences.
• Make hard efforts for excellence of the food & having it ready on time.

Beautify and Soften the Voice

• For your husband only, it shouldn't be used in front of non-mahram men (men who can marry you if you were unmarried).

Hussein Khalid Al-Hussein, Ph.D.

Introduction

Any discussion of marital relationships in Islam, should briefly mention the laws of divorce, since marriage and divorce are strongly related. The laws of divorce are among those laws shown in detail in the Qur'an along with the laws of marriage. It is also important to study the other forms of marriage dissolution besides divorce that are mentioned in the Qur'an and Hadith.

At-Talaq (Divorce)

Divorce is allowed in Islam. People, however, should not abuse this permission by seeking divorce without good reasons. Although if a couple divorces without reason it would still be considered lawful.

The article below deals with one of the major problems faced by the Muslim Youth today, in particular, those raised in the west.

The author gives us an insight into the harsh reality of these “love relationships” that the western culture teaches our youth, coating them with sweet pictures of two hearts loving each other on first sight, and after little ups and downs, finally end up marrying each other and have a happy ending. Where as the reality is indeed far away from it as the sister brilliantly demonstrates.

Many unmarried people these days search for “love” in a series of premarital relationships, which far from yielding happiness, lead to nothing but spiritual degeneration, loss of self-respect, heartache and misery.

A lecture by Sheikh Abdullah Adhami

By getting married you are not just getting a wife, you are getting your whole world. From now until the rest of your days your wife will be your partner, your companion, and your best friend.

She will share your moments, your days, and your years. She will share your joys and sorrows, your successes and failures, your dreams and your fears. When you are ill, she will take the best care of you; when you need help, she will do all she can for you; when you have a secret, she will keep it; when you need advice, she will give you the best advice.

By Stan Goff

I'm a retired Special Forces Master Sergeant. That doesn't cut much for those who will only accept the opinions of former officers on military matters, since we enlisted swine are assumed to be incapable of grasping the nuances of doctrine.

But I wasn't just in the army. I studied and taught military science and doctrine. I was a tactics instructor at the Jungle Operations Training Center in Panama, and I taught Military Science at West Point. And contrary to the popular image of what Special Forces does, SF's mission is to teach. We offer advice and assistance to foreign forces. That's everything from teaching marksmanship to a private to instructing a Battalion staff on how to coordinate effective air operations with a sister service.

By John Chuckman, YellowTimes.org Columnist (Canada)

(YellowTimes.org) - War between Islam and the nations of the West? There have been a good many careless words printed and broadcast in America touching on this simplistic idea. And an American president who lacks the most superficial knowledge of the world or its history offers no reassurance, as he lurches from one misstatement to another, that this idea is not being incorporated into national policy.

Media Monitors Network, Joseph Clifford, May 11, 2002 JAMES TOWN, Rhode Island

The Russians got into their Vietnam right after we got out of ours? Isn't that strange?

we supported Bin Laden and the Taleban for years, and viewed them as freedom fighters against the Russians? Isn't that strange?

As late as 1998 the US was paying the salary of every single Taleban official in Afghanistan? Isn't that strange?

There is more oil and gas in the Caspian Sea area than in Saudi Arabia, but you need a pipeline through Afghanistan to get the oil out. Isn't that strange?

Western women are turning to Islam in rapidly increasing numbers. KAY JARDINE discovers why they are so keen to become Muslims.

Bullying, depression, and insomnia made Kimberley McCrindle's teenage years particularly difficult. Taunts from classmates about her weight and how she looked left the 19-year-old student feeling like she didn't really fit in, and always searching for something that would make her feel happy, that would make her feel she belonged.