Women’s Issues



Issues private to women.


Muraqaba during menses

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Eshaykh Staff

Q: Is it allowed to do Marqaba and daily awrad during menses? If not then what should we do? Continue reading →

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Baby in bed
Bébé dans le lit parental

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Hajjah Naziha Adil

Q: My situation is that my husband doesnt share a bed with me, he says because the children disturb him in the middle of the night, [fr]Je suis dans la situation où mon mari et moi ne dormons pas dans le même lit…[/fr] Continue reading →

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Bébé dans le lit parental

Awrad for ladies

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Eshaykh Staff

I am not very clear about the awrad in one way. I read that during menses women can recite and do their awrad. Continue reading →

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Female circumcision

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Eshaykh Staff

Q: Female circumcision is islamic? or cultural, from africa?[fr]Q: Female circumcision is islamic? or culutral, from africa?[/fr] Continue reading →

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female circumcision

Posted on December 12, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Q: I hear a lot about female circumcision in Islam and wondered why if women have to do it why is it not widespread among Muslim women, or is the practice of mainly Africans Egypt etc. Continue reading →

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Reciting Quran during menses

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Hajjah Naziha Adil

Q: I am wondering if I can recite my daily awrad by mouth during this time or if I have to do it silently in the heart? Continue reading →

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Does wife need permission to fast?
Est-ce que l’épouse doit demander la permission pour jeûner?

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad

Q: Does a wife have to ask permission from her husband to keep nafl fasts, for example voluntary fasting in Muharram? Taking into account the fasting is short in the winter months and we are both at work all day and do not see each other, so it does not affect marital relations.[fr]Est-ce qu’une épouse doit demander la permission à son mari pour observer des jeûnes nafl, par exemple, le jeûne volontaire du mois de Muharram?[/fr] Continue reading →

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Est-ce que l’épouse doit demander la permission pour jeûner?

Women Tasawwuf Issue

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Eshaykh Staff

Q: But I don’t know whether women are allowed to do or not. I have heard about online baiyat and I yearn to take baiyat at the hands of Sheikh Nazim Adil Al Hakkani. Is it allowed to take baiyat online? Continue reading →

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the way to dress your hair

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Taher Siddiqui

Q: Our beloved Maulana Sjeikh Nazim talked about combing the hair of women in the style of tha way the women of Yemen used to wear it. Can anyone tell me what way that is? Continue reading →

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Qur’an and Menses

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Hajjah Naziha Adil

Q: Should women read or touch the Qur’an during menstruation?…[fr]Q: Should women read or touch the Quran during menstruation?…[/fr] Continue reading →

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