Islamic Family Life

✍ Scribed by Sayyid Sa’eed Akhtar Rizvi

• Publisher: WOFIS
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 90
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Islam and the Family System
Islam is the Final religion and has the most ideal shari `ah (revealed law). An unbiased observer cannot help admiring the equilibrium which it has achieved balancing the demands of body and spirit, providing guidance concerning life in this world as well as teachings concerning life in the hereafter.

It is the Leading Light which brightly illuminates every turning in the highway of human life. It is the Perfect shari `ah which did not leave any human need uncared for.

In so far as family-life goes, we see that Islam has unravelled every problem of the family system with such dexterity that one has to accept that it could not be solved in a better way.

One cannot but register astonishment at the attitude adopted by some Christians writers. They seem to be suffering from an inferiority complex when they compare the Islamic shari ah with their religion which has no shariah at all. Therefore, they try to imply that, that perfection of shari `ah is a “drawback” or that the moral standard of Islamic teachings is not as high as that of Christianity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Publisher's Foreword i
The Family 1
Importance of a Family Code 1
Islam and the Family System 2
Family Pillars 2
Joint Family and Separate Family Systems 3
Joint Family System: its Advantages and Disadvantages 4
Separate Family System: its Advantages and Disadvantages 5
The Wise System of Islamic Society 5
Dependants 6
Seclusion of Women 7
Parents and Children 10
Why so much Emphasis on the Rights of Parents? 11
Rights of Children 12
Name 12
Three Stages of Life 13
Instruction for the Three Stages 15
First Stage 15
Second Stage 17
Third Stage 19
Rights of Parents 20
The Similarity Between the Financial Rights of Almighty Allah and Parents 22
According to the Right of Love 24
According to the Right of Obedience 25
First Similarity 26
Second Similarity 27
Third Similarity 28
Superiority of Mother's Rights 28
A Warning 29
The Qur'an and the Gospels 29
Marital Affairs 33
Mutual Rights of Husband and Wife 33
Natural Spheres of Activities of Man and Woman 34
Benefits of Marriage 34
Islamic Boundary Line 37
The Rights of the Husband 40
Man and Woman: Physical Differences 41
A Woman's Place is at Home 43
Husband: Metaphorical Lord 48
Obedience Based on Love 49
Domestic Management 50
Procreation 51
Love and Good Grace 54
Right of Maintenance 55
Forbearance 56
Misunderstandings and Conflicts 57
When the Wife is at fault 58
When the Husband is at fault 59
When both are at fault 59
Separation 60
Talaq, Khul`, Mubarat 62
Conditions of Divorce 64
Divorce: The most disliked permission 64
Rights of Other Relatives 65
The Evils of Severing Relationship 69
Divine Law in Practice: 71
Circle of Ar-rahm 72
Ways of Silat ar-rahm 74
Summary 76
A Reminder 76
Rights of Neighbours 77

✦ Subjects

Family life in Shia Islam, Family values in Shia Islam, Rights of Husband, Rights of Wife, Living within a Family