Writings have circulated that review some of the recent Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) rules and issues promoted by some as "reducing the status of the female under the cover of religion and the name of Shar'a". These writings became the subject of controversy and skepticism. Such statements have been based on presenting contradictions of some Ahadeeth (the sayings of the Prophet (saw)) with the general representation of the status of women…

The extent which violence against women has reached in Turkey has driven even NGO's to make proposals which express their despair. Ultimately nobody in Turkey believes anymore that the policies regarding women, who are in need of protection, practised by the state so far, are sufficient. Moreover, everybody complains that none of the state's units fulfils its duties regarding the protection of women adequately As a result of this, at…

On 18th December 2013, a married couple originating from Malaysia, Azizul Raheem and his wife Shalwati Norshal, were arrested by Swedish police on suspicion for beating their children due to not praying. Azizul Raheem, director of Tourism Malaysia in Sweden, has been remanded for two months while waiting for the trial of this case. Due to the married couple's arrest, their four children were taken by Sweden Welfare Organisation and…

Yes indeed, the world is the Prison of the Believer, for when he sees the Heaven with all of its delights, he will conceive that this earth in comparison, with all of its limited riches and fleeting pleasures, was as miserable as a prison. And yes, when the Kafir faces Hell as an everlasting abode, a prison of no escape, with the severest punishment and the extremes of pain, without…