My story "Radical Muslim in Love" is out in this 👇🏾 anthology
#ordinarychaosbook
published by
@penguinrandom
and edited by
@Margueriteme
. It will soon be available in all parts of the world. You all definitely want to read this book; so watch out for it and help get the word out.
He’s my father; my parent. His blood runs through me. This name defines my lineage. My birth and everything after were registered in this name. Tell me why I should suddenly abandon it and take your own father’s name? Would you take my father’s name?
The surname discussion is dumb AF, you don't want your husband surname cuz it gives dominance vibes but you want to keep your surname that your dad passed down to you, your dad is a woman ?
Being a housewife is beautiful when you’re privileged. You have a garden to hang out in. You don’t have to work around the house all day and you can spend so much time pursuing a hobby.
Doesn’t sound or look like this for many women. Two truths can exist at the same time.
The way Muslim men try to bully women who speak authoritatively on Islamic Issues is telling of how much they think Islamic knowledge is their exclusive birth-right allotted to them based on gender. So women are only supposed to take it, not possess it.
This is quite an insensitive thing to say. The “hatred for Islam” and “fear of Muslims” are not unfounded. Invalidating these fears will only increase the hatred for Islam. We need to hold ourselves accountable.
“My hatred for Islam” “My fear of Muslims” and all the nonsense you’ve all been saying.
My mother, who’s a Christian and her family grew up around General Hospital, Jekadafari, Gombe State, where I also lived and not one attempt at her life nor any of her family members who are
The problem is… we can’t expect children to love what they weren’t given the freedom to love. We can’t expect them to not resent spending time in the kitchen when it’s forced on them for no other reason than that they’re girls. This has nothing to do with SM or podcasts.
@bnk2nde
There are blood ties and there are marriage ties. These are two different things. My husband and I become a family by marriage, not by blood. Our lineages are different and always will be.
They treat you the way you treat yourself. So treat yourself highly. They also test your boundaries, so make sure your boundaries are strong. And even though most of them love the idea of a doormat, they don’t ever love a doormat.
Some reasons👇🏾
1. Husbands are not culturally expected to be subservient to their father-in-laws.
2. Men are not reduced to fatherhood, so they don’t see their daughters as the centre of their existence, which by extension means they won’t see their sons-in-law as threats.
@FandomFreak_
Yes, her blood runs through me. But it wasn’t her surname that I was given at birth. If it was, my stance remains the same. I won’t change it. Secondly, you don’t get to tell me what to do.
“The male orgasm leads to procreation while the female orgasm is purely for recreation. Yet society normalises the notion that men need to orgasm for recreation while women only need the entire act of sex for procreation.”
- Farida D.
So some people are asking me what a Nikkah contract contains. Here are some important parts of a Nikkah contract.
1. Offer and Acceptance of Marriage
2. Consent of the Guardian
3. Mahr - How much and when it is due to be paid.
4. Other rights stated below👇
@Mr_hojay
No. She followed what was the norm, but it was her choice still. Or maybe she didn’t think she had a choice? Could be any of it. But if it was a conscious choice, then it’s a valid one.
We need married women who have loving, satisfying, egalitarian relationships with their partners to share their experiences more often. We’ve had enough awful “doormat” stories. If you’re a Muslim, please follow Maryam Lemu and sign up for her courses.
Me: **Talking about the rights of Muslim women**
Muslim Men: “You’re a feminist”
Me: “Okay. I’m a feminist”
Muslim Men: “You can’t be Muslim and feminist at the same time”
What it means: **You can’t be a Muslim woman and have rights.**
If you’re a woman who does specific things for your husband and you’re angry at other women who don’t do the same, ask yourself why you’re doing that specific thing because your anger reveals that you low-key resent that act and you’re angry at other women for “living the life.”
@bnk2nde
Reality disagrees with this. Mind you, just as a woman can inherit from her man, so can a man inherit from his woman. And no man has to bear his wife’s surname to inherit from her.
@AliSakirmanii
The narrative that a woman’s status is based on her position as daughter, wife or mother has to end. A woman’s status isn’t tied to these things. She is valued just for being who she is, a woman. Not for anything else. The same is not said about men.
Update: if you're a Muslim woman and you're not yet married and would love to have a Nikkah contract during your marriage. I'm your go-to person and I'll do this for a small fee. This guarantees all your rights in marriage. Just get in touch and help RT.
The reason I will keep talking about Muslim women's rights and not the "responsibilities* is that the issue of *responsibilities* has for long been overstretched. We hear it everyday; "what women should do and not do* We hardly hear of what women are entitled to.
I just hope married people know that all they owe their in-laws is “respect” and nothing more! You’re nobody’s free servant, maid or money making machine!
One day, we’ll have a conversation around how “envy” (though a negative emotion) is just as normal as every other emotion we feel. We’ll talk about how to “deal” with it, so it doesn’t get out of hands. Envy destroys a lot of things!
@bnk2nde
Do you realise that this whole thing was never a part of Yoruba culture or any African culture that I know of until the colonialists brought it to us. And suddenly, we can’t just do things the way it was done before? Because it suits the African male ego?
I genuinely crave a strong sisterhood of Muslim women where personal choices (e.g. dressing) don’t create division; where we all stick together regardless of our differences; where the one thing that matters is the commonality of Islam. How beautiful does this sound?
This Hadith contradicts the Qur’an and is widely used to keep women in bondage. According to the Qur’an, women have a right to no-fault divorce. The Prophet (PBUH) also granted a no-fault divorce to a woman whose husband did no wrong. 👇🏾
It's actually a favour from Allah that Muslim women don't have to pray or fast during their period. Menstruation itself is a discomfort, so a *short leave* from religious/spiritual activities is fair.
Please help me to have complete tawakkul in You, grant me the best of this world and the hereafter, grant justice to all the oppressed people in the world. Forgive my sins, that of my family and my brethren in faith and make our last moments our very best.
Coming from a married woman, this thread should have stayed in the draft. This isn’t the marriage advice you think it is. Also, some of the assertions in the comments that only single women will condemn this, presumes that all married women do is endure disrespect, which is BS.
Here's 🥂to all the women who refuse to be caged, gagged or suppressed; women who live their lives free of society’s expectations and live life on their terms. They are the ones who have truly tasted freedom!
I see a lot of young women tweeting along the lines of “How are women marrying these kind of men?”. Thing is, while it is true that some women actually ignore lots of red flags before marriage, the question is actually counterproductive. 👇🏾
Muslim men who don't speak up against misogyny or oppression cos they benefit from it and don't advocate for the rights of Muslim women are the ones quick to stretch out their necks to say "You can't be Muslim and feminist," when issues are being discussed.
I’ve legit heard men say something along the lines of ”My mother had ten children. What's the big deal? Are you the first woman to get pregnant and have a child?”
May we not know such men. May they not come near us. I find myself speechless when I hear such things.
Shaykh Muhammad Akram Nadwi has published in 34 volumes, the biographies of 10,000 women scholars from over 1000 years ago.
This has me crying tears of joy right now. May Allah reward him with the highest stations of this world and the hereafter. 🙏🏽
Halima Aden has unapologetically admitted her mistakes and talked about choosing to start wearing the correct hijab. It's so beautiful to see. The strength, the vulnerability. We love to see it. Deen over dunya!
“Bonus if they are single or divorced”
In a world where single and divorced women are stigmatized and made to go through hell, it’s a bonus if they, in spite of being single, live their best lives....
This isn’t hard to understand so why are men weeping under this tweet?
@tharaatta
@AishaYesufu
Please understand context. She doesn’t mean “literally” but that Society defines “good wife” in a certain way and uses it to oppress women and to compel them to stay in oppressive marriages. This is what she says you should reject!
It’s a subtle way of blaming women for being in the situation they’re in. No woman wants to be in an abusive relationship and the truth is, you cannot predict how your marriage is going to turn out. Lastly, let’s stop saying “can never be me” cos it really can be anyone.
As women, I hope we understand that winning individually is not the goal. Collective winning is. We may not agree on what most fulfills us as women, but seeing women living their best lives makes me soooo happy.
People are quick to assume that reverts are ignorant of the deen. These people probably spent years researching and learning about Islam before getting convinced enough to take the Shahadah...... But we're quick to judge.
Wallahi, as a young woman looking to get married, there's no benefit to wanting to portray yourself as what you're not. Be transparent, lay your cards on the table.
A Yoruba adage says "nkan ti aa ni gbà ni olowo, ati talika la ti ma n koo"
I’m seeing conversations centered around the choice to be a stay-at-home wife on my TL. Just a word of advice: Any woman who chooses this path should ensure that she gets married to a wealthy man and gets paid a lump sum as monthly salary, enough to invest in her future. ✌🏽
Oh yeah. The Sunnah is for women to do chores until they have blisters and become weak. This is when the Sunnah matters. But y'all don't mention that the Prophet (PBUH) did his own chores and also forbade Ali (AS) from marrying a second wife cos it would hurt his daughter.
Sometimes, the woman in me gets tired; of all the complexities that come with being woman; of having to explain that we're humans too, that we have agency; of having to reinforce the truth that this world equally belongs to us.
MeN aRe PoLYgaMous in NatuRe. Yet the Prophet (PBUH) was monogamous for 26 years with a woman who was 15 years older than him without once looking at another woman.
This Hadith is wrongly quoted and cannot be weaponised to compel women to do men’s chores. The Seerah tells us that Fatima (RA) and Ali (RA) lived a life of deprivation and hardship. And while Ali hustled hard, doing various jobs, they did the household chores together. 👇🏾
@Halal_Match
Nana fatima R.A once went to the Prophet SAW that he should give her a servant to assist her with her house chores bcos of so much work in Ali R.A's house. The Prophet SAW said she should go back and do all her husband's chores by herself.
A choice or duty? Get the hadith 1st.
I really hate it when women invalidate other women's experiences just because it's not theirs. It may not be your cup of tea but don't deny that your experience isn't another woman's truth.
When we talk about the "bumps" in marriage; the ones couples get through together, we mean:
- financial problems
- infertility issues
- Loss of lives / grief
- Health issues.....
It doesn't include:
- Cheating/Infidelity
- All forms of abuse
These 👆🏾 are simply deal breakers.
See how excited some men are at the idea of Queen Amina of Zaria being a mythical figure who never existed. Your attempt at her erasure has a root. And try as you might, you will never be able to erase women from history books. Not this time!
Men expect women to do for love, what they would never do for love.
Case in point: “If you won’t take his last name, you don’t love him”
What if I told you that bearing my own last name is my love language. Would you take my last name? 🤷🏽♀️
Premium manipulation!
I’m so much rooting for Muslim women; women who have shed all fear of judgement and every desire for validation. Women who exude so much poise, elegance and intelligence wherever they go. The world is waiting!
The problem I have with some women, is the tendency to phase out of being fashionable after marriage or childbirth.
Men are prone to all sorts of temptations everyday. You open Tik-tok, you see trendy stuff, you open Twitter, you see the big boobs gang.
How will you not cheat?
I need to state that the intention behind a woman’s dressing is nobody’s business. No one has appointed you as the morality police. If some women want to dress to “follow a trend”, let them do so. I’m enraged that some feel that they have the right to launch a campaign against it
Mothers on my TL. I'm talking to mothers who neither hit nor yell at their kids. What discipline methods do you use please? Especially for a two-year-old. Please save a mother's soul and help RT.
After being away for almost two years, I finally think I’m ready to be on this space again.
Really grateful to everyone who reached out… whose messages I’ve still not responded to. I sincerely apologise for my silence, and I don’t take you for granted.
Islam is a religion of "Live and Let Live". It is a religion of "To you your religion and to me, mine" It gives no one the permission to be the judge or prosecutor of another person's life except the said person has infringed on the lawful rights of others.
I don’t know why she’s still in that marriage though… Will always stand on the hill that it’s better to leave than live with resentment.
Also, men expecting their first wives to fund polygamy will never not be funny to me. 🙃
“Sexy Alhaja” “Alhaja to Jasi” “Wassup Alhaja”. All these prefixes definitely hint at something y’all are overlooking - that there’s a preconceived expectation of who an “Alhaja” should be; backward and conservative. And when she’s not, the prefixes roll in. Alhaja to n wo boot!
Also, not every relationship issue is a fiqh issue. You can’t keep going to scholars or religious leaders for advise on relationship issues when you have counselors, therapists and relationship experts.
I also just discovered today that ladies in their teens and early twenties are manipulated into seeing older women (30+) as competitors for male attention. They are “used” to propagate the narrative that women have expiry dates.
You donate the X chromosome. Your wife carries it for nine months. She goes through excruciating Labour pain to have the baby. Then you smash the beautiful, innocent child on the floor, right before your wife, just because the baby was a girl. YOU DESERVE TO DIE!
I believe that we would have achieved more with the
#EndSARS
movement if the North had supported the cause. It would have been a national concern and the narrative that the south was trying to overthrow the government wouldn’t have existed. Division breeds nothing good.
These childbirth stories make me so grateful! Grateful to God for giving me a strong support system; my husband and my mum. I practically didn’t lift a finger for months. All I did was eat, sleep and feed my baby. They did everything else.
Imagine telling a woman that the same creator who destined for her not to have children is the same creator who condemned her to a life of inferiority and misery for not having them. How are some people so vile???
But they don’t know that children can grow up and re-process things that were done to them in the past, then feel new emotions about those things and react differently to them as adults. The older they get, the better they understand the impact of what was done to them.
Don’t forget she did it when he was 15. Knowing fully well he doesn’t have the same options an adult child would. It’s easier to scatter his plans and be begging. “I’m sorry don’t be angry. Don’t worry God will make another way for you if it’s in his plan for you”
Hajiya Maryam Lemu is starting a pre-marital course very soon. If you are familiar with her work, you know she’s really good! Putting it out here for those looking to get married and those seeking marriage counseling. Visit her Instagram page for information on enrollment.
Neither science nor Islam supports FGM! The Qur’an makes absolutely no mention about female circumcision and the few statements attributed to Muhammad (PBUH) in support of FGM were declared fabricated centuries ago.
My heart goes out to Gambian feminists that are working overtime because of this horrifying campaign to decriminalise FGM. This is why the separation of state and church is so critical. Science not religion should be the basis of health related policies.
The Prophet (PBUH) didn’t marry any of the Ansari women because according to him, they were jealous and couldn’t tolerate polygyny. Instead of ranting on Twitter, find a woman who’s okay with it. Problem solved.
When they say "marriage is hardwork", it's not about the chores and responsibilities, it's about working hard to love your spouse over and over again. The love that was once easy and effortless suddenly demands effort and commitment to sustain.
One day, you’ll meet someone who’s more fascinating than your partner, this can happen even when your partner has done you no wrong.
Get ready to fight your own self and be content with what you have.
I hate it when society makes it look like marriage is compulsory even when it hurts those involved! This same society will be quick to tell a woman “Rest in peace” when she dies! Systemic injustice and oppression!!!
I hate the fact that even when non-muslims know as a matter of fact that violence perpetrated by some Muslims cannot be justified with Islam, they deliberately twist the facts to display their hatred for Islam. It's "calculated ignorance" on their part and it's depressing.
Hi everyone!
Just here to say “I’m back”. I’ll be popping in every once in a while. Thanks to everyone who reached out to me. It meant a lot to me and I’m grateful. I’ll reply all your DMs one after the other.