According to the recommendations of the great leaders of Islam, the best food for a baby is the mother’s milk. For a suckling child, nothing can be substituted for the mother’s milk. Therefore, one of the...
Read More »The Islamic Approach to Pious Parenting
It is not simply enough to “make children” – rather to be considered as a parent – be it a mother or father – one must rise to the occasions and ensure that their children have had all aspects of their lives taken care of...
Read More »Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century
Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim analyzes how these two concepts -the nurturing and upkeep of children, or 'custody', and caring for the child's education, discipline, and property- relate to the welfare of the child, and traces the development of an...
Read More »Physical Punishment of Children from Islam’s Point of View
The parents desirous of good upbringing of their children never abstained from beating them when required. But most intellectuals consider this tyrannical method of...
Read More »The Role of Parents in Discipline and Control of children
It is the right of every child to be disciplined by wise and reasonable parents. A parent uses control and discipline to guide the child....
Read More »Muslim Homeless Shelter Opens for Women and Children
The Amal Women’s Center is Boston’s first Muslim-run homeless shelter for women and children, a place where Muslim women who have fallen on hard times may feel especially at home...
Read More »The Lineage of Children Born by Sperm Donation: A Shiite Perspective
There are three persons that have a possible legal relationship to the child born from this method - the sperm donor (biological father), the...
Read More »Lineage and the Rights of Cloned Child in the Islamic Jurisprudence
Lineage in the Islamic law is one of the most basic human rights each individual inherits from his family. When modern assisted reproductive technologies appeared in recent decades, the...
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