Women and Islam

How Did Adam and Eve’s Children Reproduce?

  Question: As-salamu Alaykum Thanks for the great service you are offering. If Adam and Eve were the first two human beings and their children were brothers and sisters, then where did the rest of the Earth’s population come from? Also what is the proof? I’m just curious, thank you very…
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Great Women in the Prophet’s Mosque

  Rufaida managed a charity clinic in the mosque, Fakihah built a minbar/pulpit in the mosque, Umm Mihjan maintained the mosque Female companions went to war with the Prophet (s) and now we don't even allow them to enter the mosque! From a Khutba: Great Women in the Prophet's Mosque.…
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Interested in Islam, Got Questions

Question:  Salam.I have been interested in Islam as a whole and also in its main branches Sunni and Shiite, though I find some things that I cannot stop thinking about, and it prevents me from the true worship of God and following one branch of Islam.My questions make a long…
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Any Friendship Between Muslims and Other Groups?

Question:     *{O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he among you that turns to them for friendship is of them.}* (Al-Ma’idah 5:51)This friendship makes any Muslim an enemy of their…
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Classification of Islamic Trends

Current media coverage studies on Islam and Muslim societies and communities, especially on what is called 'political Islam' or 'Islamists', typically mention these terms: fundamentalist, strict, radical, moderate, progressive, and so on. These media reports draw from a large number of contemporary studies that offer 'typologies of Islamic ideologies.'
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Praying by a ‘Non-Muslim’

Question: I am originally Christian and for the last year I have been discovering Islam. I have now stopped going to church and praying according to the Christian tradition because I gradually became unconvinced of the key Christian teachings about Jesus.
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