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Jul 17 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
As a Muslim, have you heard of the word “Al-Jassasah” before.
The word "Al-Jassasah" roughly translates to the spy or the scout. But my intent in this post is not about the meaning. It is about a famous event surrounding that word.
There is a famous Hadith known as the Hadith of Al-Jassasah. This Hadith is one of the most fascinating and detailed narrations in Islamic eschatology regarding the end times.
It was reported in Sahih Muslim, and narrated by a female companion named Fatima bint Qais. The hadith revolves around the personal account of Tamim ad-Dari, who was a Christian sailor and priest before he embraced Islam.
What happened?
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Tamim and his crew of thirty men were caught in a severe storm and lost at sea for a month. They eventually shipwrecked on an uncharted island.
When they explored the island, they encountered a very strange, heavily hairy beast. The hair was so thick they could not tell its front from its back.
They were startled, and they were forced to ask the beast what it was.
It replied, "I am Al-Jassasah."
The beast did not harm them, however, directed them to a monastery on the island, telling them there was a man inside who was desperately waiting for news from the outside world.
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Jun 23 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Can a woman set conditions for her husband not to marry another wife? This question has been on for days on the TL, so let’s settle it once and for all.
Yes, she can. A woman has the full right to set terms that protect her emotional and mental well-being before signing a marriage contract. If a man agrees to those terms, he is bound by them.
You want to know why? Let’s dissect it together in this 🧵 1/6
The foundational evidence for this relies on the authentic statement of the Prophet (peace be upon him) recorded in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim:
ان أحق الشروط أن توفوا به ما استحللتم به الفروج
The conditions most worthy of being fulfilled are those by which you made intimacy lawful.
The Prophet specifically isolated the marriage contract, by stating that the terms you agreed to in order to make a woman lawful to you carry the highest level of obligation.
This brings me to the position of the Hanbali Madhhab.
The Hanbali school stands firmly on the position that this condition is completely valid and binding. To support the Hadith, Imam Ibn Qudamah wrote in Al-Mughni:
إذا اشترطت عليه أن لا يتزوج عليها فهذا مما يلزم الوفاء به فإن لم يفعل فلها فسخ النكاح
If she stipulates against him that he cannot marry another wife, then this is among the conditions that must be fulfilled. If he does not comply, she has the right to dissolve the marriage.
Ibn Qudamah clarifies that this condition brings a direct benefit to the woman and does not disrupt the core purpose of marriage. The husband must honor his signature or face judicial dissolution.
But did the other school of thoughts agree with this? No! Why?
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Jun 19 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Let’s talk about Family Planning 🚨
Whenever there is a conversation around family planning, the conversation often drops into a highly polarized debate.
One side views any form of birth regulation as a modern Western infiltration that contradicts reliance on divine provision, while the other side detaches the practice completely from traditional values.
To find what the truth is, we must strip away the emotional rhetoric and examine where the classical legal schools draw the structural boundaries.
The first thing to understand is that Islamic family law makes a big legal distinction between permanent sterilization and temporary contraception.
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1/71) Looking into the Time of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and the precedents:
The backing for temporary birth control is not a modern innovation. It dates straight back to the companion era through the practice of Al-Azl (coitus interruptus). In Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, the companion Jabir ibn Abdullah states:
كنا نعزل على عهد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم والقرآن ينزل فبلغ ذلك النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فلم ينهنا
"We used to practice 'azl during the lifetime of the Prophet while the Quran was being revealed, and the Prophet came to know of it but did not forbid us."
The silent approval of the Prophet, occurring alongside active divine revelation, establishes a baseline rule of permissibility for temporary methods.
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Apr 12 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
This morning, I want us to talk about understanding the anatomical psychology of your child.
What does this mean? How do you identify the anatomical psychology of your child? How do you then maximize his/her potential? Please come with me.
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What does the anatomical psychology of a child mean?
It means looking at the physical wiring and the innate nature that the Almighty God has put into your child before you even started parenting them.
Painfully today, most parents try to change the behavior without realizing it is driven by the biology. You have to understand that your child is not an empty book you can write on. They are more like a seed. A mango seed will never become a palm tree, no matter how much you water it. You have to understand what is inside the seed to help it grow.
