Women in Married Life

Relationships based on worldly values can degenerate into baseness, as often happens in marriage. When people’s love and respect is based on these values, they can lose these feelings quickly when circumstances change. This is almost inevitable when love, respect, and loyalty depend on one’s beauty, wealth, health, job, or status, for when these temporary and superficial characteristics disappear, so will the other person’s love. Someone who follows such criteria will find no reason to continue to love and honor his or her spouse when the basis for those values is lost.

The Value of Mothers

Islamic morality guarantees all people’s social and personal lives and shows them how to live the easiest, most content, and happiest life. This morality prescribes justice, tolerance, compassion, and helpfulness toward all people, regardless of gender, age, and economic status. Irrespective of whom they are dealing with, Muslims are required to always abide by this morality as best they can. Muslims adopt these superior moral characteristics because Allah tells them to do so. As a result, a person’s social status, gender, age, and other such characteristics are irrelevant to them.

Allah states the importance of treating women, especially mothers, well. Parents do their best to give their children a good education, a decent character, and teach them to treat all other people properly. Given that they make many sacrifices, financial or otherwise, for many years, the children are obligated to return their efforts and selfless support with respect and service. Allah reveals this responsibility:

We have instructed man to honor his parents. (Surat al-’Ankabut: 8 )

We have instructed man to be good to his parents. (Surat al-Ahqaf: 15)

5 Great Influential Muslim Women: Khadijah

Also: 5 Great Influential Muslim Women: Fatimah         5 Great Influential Muslim Women: ‘Aishah

“When none believed me, Khadijah did. She made me a partner in her wealth.” Those are the words of Prophet Muhammad [Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam (Peace and Blessings of allah be Upon Him)], about his first wife — Khadijah Kubra (Khadijah the Great).

 

Khadijah [Radiyallahu 'Anha (May Allah be pleased with her)], the daughter of Khuwailid, was born 15 years before the year of the elephant, in 555 CE (common era). Her mother was Fatimah bint Zaidah.

Obama’s Village in Kenya

Thrust into the spotlight and aiming to become one of the world’s most powerful people, it is hard to imagine that Barack Obama’s roots lie in what can only be described as an extremely humble Kenyan village.
Here we meet the family members and characters that have served to shape Barack’s early life. Mama Sara, Barack’s grandmother, tells us “Barack is a son of this village. He’s a very kind man. He loves development. He likes peace and he loves me.” We also learn of the hopes and aspirations of the villagers, along with the future developments in Kenya that the senator may bring.

-Courtesy of Journey Man Pictures

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