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Book Review: His other wife

Trailer Synopsis: Jacob and Deanna are a power couple. Aliyah is Deanna’s best friend…whom Jacob wants to marry. Expanded and continued beyond Umm Zakiyyah’s popular online series by the same name, His Other Wife is a story about love and betrayal, faith and personal crisis, and withstanding deep emotional wounds. Jacob is a successful businessman and college professor, and his wife Deanna is a renowned marriage counselor and author. Together they are their Muslim community’s power couple. Aliyah is Deanna’s recently divorced best friend who has just accepted a position at the college where Jacob works—and who is the...

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eBook: Etiquettes of Marriage

By: Shaykh Muhammad Naasir Ud Deen Al Albaani There are in Islam, certain etiquettes upon anyone who marries and wishes to consummate his marriage with his wife. Most Muslims today, even those who exert themselves in Islamic worship, have either neglected or become totally ignorant of these Islamic etiquettes. Therefore, I decided to write this beneficial treatise clearly explaining these issues on the occasion of marriage of someone dear to me. I hope that it will be an aid to him and to other believing brothers in carrying out what the Chief of the Messengers has ordained on the...

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eBook: Polygamy in Islam

Author: Bilal Philips & Jameelah Jones | Pages: 108 | Size: 3 MB ‘Polygamy is the Muslim practice most frequently and severely maligned by Westerners and modernist Muslims. This book can be read with profit by all unprejudiced readers who wish to know its justification and rationale. One of the greatest contrasts between Islam and the West is their conflicting concepts of relations between the sexes. Indeed, the very first question a Muslim convert is confronted with by an American or European is ‘Why does Islam allow four wives?’ This book…replies straightforwardly to that question and much more. The...

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Make some Honey Lemon & Ginger tea

Feel a bit of a cold or flu coming on? Try this easy to make Honey Lemon & Ginger Tea! The heat and the ginger will warm you right up, the steam and the lemon and the ginger helps clear those sinuses, and the ginger and the honey soothes that scratchy throat. INGREDIENTS: 1 cup water 3cm piece ginger root (or more, to taste), peeled and roughly chopped 1/2 whole lemon 1 teaspoon honey, or to taste INSTRUCTIONS: Pour 1 cup boiling water over the ginger and let it steep for 3 minutes. Meanwhile, put the lemon juice and...

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Review – The Umm Zakiyya Book Tour & Movie Screening

The Umm Zakiyya Book tour spanned 3 cites, and multiple events per city, including workshops. For South Africa, this comes at a time where more muslim women are exploring the genre of fiction writing, where there is a need to tell stories with islamic principles embedded in them, where narratives are being penned down and the writers are too shy to send their work out there into the world. The encouragement that comes out of this is to keep writing, and to let your literary voice be heard. Baitul Hikmah stocks and publishes her books here in South Africa,...

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